Path: utzoo!utgpu!alliant.com!UUCP Reply-To: british-cars@alliant.com Errors-To: british-cars-request@alliant.com Sender: british-cars-request@alliant.com Return-Path: Message-ID: <9003010102.AA07647@samhain.com> From: akkana@eeg.com (Akkana) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 20:02:43 EST Phones: (415)227-4900x134(w), (415)598-0146(h) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.0b.1 10/5/89) To: british-cars@alliant.com Subject: Smoke gets in your eyes Newsgroups: list.british-cars Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu I just saw this article on rec.motorcycles, and thought I should share it with this list ... --- Forwarded mail from kenk@tellab5.UUCP (Ken Konecki) >From lll-winken!tellab5.UUCP!kenk Fri Feb 23 10:37:04 1990 Path: samhain!eeg!pacbell!ames!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tellab5!kenk From: kenk@tellab5.tellabs.com (Ken Konecki) Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles Subject: Smoke gets in your eyes Date: 23 Feb 90 18:37:04 GMT Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL Lines: 37 Came across this on a bulletin board here at work, source unknown. A sheet of paper crossed my desk the other day and as I read it, realization of a basic truth came over me. So simple! So obvious we couldn't see it. John Knivien, Chairman of Polamar Repeater Club, an amateur group, had discovered how IC circuits work. He says that smoke is the thing that makes IC circuits work because every time you let the smoke out of an IC circuit, it stops working. He claims to have verified this with thorough testing. I was flabbergasted! Of Course! Smoke makes all things electrical work. Remember the last time smoke escaped from your Lucas voltage regulator? Didn't it quit working? I sat and smiled like an idiot as more of the truth dawned. It's the wiring harness that carries the smoke from one device to another in your Mini MG or Jag. And when the harness springs a leak, it lets the smoke out of everything at once and then nothing works. The starter motor requires large quantities of smoke to operate properly and that's why the wire going to it is so large. Feeling very smug, I continued to expand my hypothesis. Why are Lucas electrics more likely to leak than say Bosch, Hmmmmmm? Aha!!!!! Lucas is British and all things British leak. British convertible tops leak water, British engines leak oil, British displacer units leak hydrostatic fluid, and I might add British tires leak air and the British defense unit leaks secrets, so naturally British electrics leak smoke. Cheers, -Ken K -- Ken Konecki "Eat well, stay fit, and die anyway" e-mail:kenk@tellabs.com -or- ...!uunet!tellab5!kenk U.S. Mail: 1271 Portchester Circle, Carol Stream, IL 60188 --- End of forwarded message from kenk@tellab5.UUCP (Ken Konecki) -- ...Akkana akkana@eeg.com SAM Technology, Inc. {pacbell,lll-winken,ucsfcgl}!eeg!akkana Who is John Galt?