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"BIOS problem" solved
"Gene E. Bloch" not-me other.invalid wrote:
Paul wrote: Gene E. Bloch wrote: OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as the extension cord was long enough. We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here somewhere... Come on, Paul, one model of the Tesla has a 300 mi (almost 500 km) range and it doesn't even need an extension cord :-) Bull****. -- After yesterday's posts, I got to thinking about street cars and what I call trackless trolleys. I realized that the overhead wires really function just like an extension cord. Kind of ruins the old joke :-) Trackless trolleys was the term when I was a kid in Philadelphia for electric buses that were powered like streetcars (called trolley cars in Phillie) by overhead wires. I mention that because all of those things had different names in the different cities I grew up in. I did actually build an electric car as a kid. It used a washing machine motor. The pulleys weren't geared right, so I couldn't use it regularly. But I did get it to go about 20 or 30 feet around the side of the house. I can see me driving that baby to work now. And having the rubber belt snap halfway through the trip (because it wasn't geared right). I would have needed another pair of pulleys to get the ratio into the right range. Paul That's really impressive, even if it didn't go far. Creative. Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) Path: eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal- september.org!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net ! storethat.news.telefonica.de!feedme.news.telefonic a.de!telefonica.de!fu- berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Gene E. Bloch" not-me other.invalid Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.stor age Subject: "BIOS problem" solved Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:22:53 -0800 Organization: Astrolabe Lines: 42 Message-ID: 7yjuo767wzes$.dlg stumbler1907.invalid References: m3b3p2$nhc$1 dont-email.me z8CdndWKROFZsMTJnZ2dnUU7- TudnZ2d posted.grandecom cbsq2eF56i8U1 mid.individual.net m3bgks$enm$1 dont-email.me cbv6meFo61jU1 mid.individual.net 1FoWBIAXQpWUFwNe soft255.demon.co.uk m3f3v8$ej2$1 dont-email.me cc0tkmF6vddU1 mid.individual.net m3firp$ra6$1 dont-email.me 1shqils4zgfwa.dlg stumbler1907.invalid m3gorp$oi3$1 dont-email.me cmfn0n09n73y.dlg stumbler1907.invalid m3hlku$a28$1 dont-email.me sheegq0npe80$.dlg stumbler1907.invalid m3m9tm$9d3$1 dont-email.me zdxxftjl32jp.dlg stumbler1907.invalid m3phmf$ulh$1 dont-email.me Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net rKRwxOFiSt27bWGm9L/1kQ7y02v2ynXrP/mIxsZj92Qk3Cd3tr Cancel-Lock: sha1:h3s2DMm6gXrH/zcpElRjt1x+rBM= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.84 Xref: mx02.eternal-september.org alt.windows7.general:111990 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:13034 |
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:16:09 -0500, Paul wrote: Gene E. Bloch wrote: OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as the extension cord was long enough. We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here somewhere... Come on, Paul, one model of the Tesla has a 300 mi (almost 500 km) range and it doesn't even need an extension cord :-) With the heater on? I seem to remember a less than enthusiastic review of the Tesla, specifically the milage claims, where Tesla's response was something like the reviewer didn't follow instructions -- poor guy used the heater. |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:16:09 -0500, Paul wrote:
Gene E. Bloch wrote: OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as the extension cord was long enough. We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here somewhere... I did actually build an electric car as a kid. It used a washing machine motor. The pulleys weren't geared right, so I couldn't use it regularly. But I did get it to go about 20 or 30 feet around the side of the house. I can see me driving that baby to work now. And having the rubber belt snap halfway through the trip (because it wasn't geared right). I would have needed another pair of pulleys to get the ratio into the right range. My brother and I built an electric 'car' when we were kids, using modified plans from Popular Mechanics. The drive motor was an electric starter from an early 1960's Dodge and was powered by 4 used car batteries wired in parallel. The concept was probably a lot better than our execution, but it was fun while it lasted. -- Char Jackson |
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Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:16:09 -0500, Paul wrote: Gene E. Bloch wrote: OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as the extension cord was long enough. We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here somewhere... I did actually build an electric car as a kid. It used a washing machine motor. The pulleys weren't geared right, so I couldn't use it regularly. But I did get it to go about 20 or 30 feet around the side of the house. I can see me driving that baby to work now. And having the rubber belt snap halfway through the trip (because it wasn't geared right). I would have needed another pair of pulleys to get the ratio into the right range. My brother and I built an electric 'car' when we were kids, using modified plans from Popular Mechanics. The drive motor was an electric starter from an early 1960's Dodge and was powered by 4 used car batteries wired in parallel. The concept was probably a lot better than our execution, but it was fun while it lasted. Sounds like you had a better junk yard than I did :-) Mine didn't involve nearly as much planning. It started with a go-kart type project. And then I spotted the washing machine motor... So there was no plan from day one to make it electric. Just an opportunity presented itself in the form of a surplus motor. We went through a fair number of washers at our house, and at its peak, there were three washers downstairs. Two wringer washers, and a washer with spin dry. Many people aren't familiar with those things. The wringer was the kind that could crush your fingers. The rollers up top, you put wet wash through them, and it "squashes" out the water for you. Funny thing is, we never had any finger crushing accidents at home. When these would rust out, that's where your surplus electric motor would come from. http://atthemanse.files.wordpress.co...ger-washer.jpg Paul |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:22:57 +0000 (UTC), Jerry Peters wrote:
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:16:09 -0500, Paul wrote: Gene E. Bloch wrote: OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as the extension cord was long enough. We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here somewhere... Come on, Paul, one model of the Tesla has a 300 mi (almost 500 km) range and it doesn't even need an extension cord :-) With the heater on? I seem to remember a less than enthusiastic review of the Tesla, specifically the milage claims, where Tesla's response was something like the reviewer didn't follow instructions -- poor guy used the heater. That's cool... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:54:16 -0500, Paul wrote:
Char Jackson wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:16:09 -0500, Paul wrote: Gene E. Bloch wrote: OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as the extension cord was long enough. We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here somewhere... I did actually build an electric car as a kid. It used a washing machine motor. The pulleys weren't geared right, so I couldn't use it regularly. But I did get it to go about 20 or 30 feet around the side of the house. I can see me driving that baby to work now. And having the rubber belt snap halfway through the trip (because it wasn't geared right). I would have needed another pair of pulleys to get the ratio into the right range. My brother and I built an electric 'car' when we were kids, using modified plans from Popular Mechanics. The drive motor was an electric starter from an early 1960's Dodge and was powered by 4 used car batteries wired in parallel. The concept was probably a lot better than our execution, but it was fun while it lasted. Sounds like you had a better junk yard than I did :-) In those days, the city dump was wide open and less than a half mile away, and it included everything from common kitchen food waste to entire cars. We spent an awful lot of time out there, finding and bringing stuff home that was still 'good'. Partway through the 70's the town built a fence around the area and declared it a no play area, but I was ready to leave home by then. Mine didn't involve nearly as much planning. It started with a go-kart type project. And then I spotted the washing machine motor... So there was no plan from day one to make it electric. Just an opportunity presented itself in the form of a surplus motor. We went through a fair number of washers at our house, and at its peak, there were three washers downstairs. Two wringer washers, and a washer with spin dry. Many people aren't familiar with those things. The wringer was the kind that could crush your fingers. The rollers up top, you put wet wash through them, and it "squashes" out the water for you. Funny thing is, we never had any finger crushing accidents at home. When these would rust out, that's where your surplus electric motor would come from. http://atthemanse.files.wordpress.co...ger-washer.jpg We had that kind. My job, for a time, was to stand on the receiving end and grab things as they came through so they wouldn't try to wrap around and get caught inside. Mom would sometimes get a bit eager and feed too much in at once, which would cause the top wringer to pop up and disengage. Before that generation of washing machines, they were powered by small 1 HP gas-powered motors. My older brother had a half dozen of those motors that he'd reclaimed from the city dump. We used to run them in a closed shed until it was so smoky inside that we couldn't see our hand in front of our face. That seems unhealthy now, but it was fun back then. Anyway, a family friend with a welder helped to mount one of those little gas motors onto a bike frame. That was the first 'motorcycle' I ever rode. I was way too small to reach the ground, so I had to start and stop from a 'leaning against a wall' position. -- Char Jackson |
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