Original Message: ----------------- From: ira kaufman [email protected] Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:50:32 -0700 (PDT) To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [alfa] RE:Common Misconceptions about Engines
WHAT IS A COW MAGNET? Green grass. Mike, "Theorizing, Visualizing, Practicing, Modeling, Pontificating, Opinionating , etc. You can play with semantics if you wish. If I spent my time indexing plugs, I too would say I felt or noticed a difference." Practicing, meaning actually trying things and observing the results, isn't an issue of semantics. It may be an issue of accurate observation versus self-delusion, yes. If I were having trouble with cold starts and plug wetting, especially on a vintage machine that I wanted to keep stock, what the hell, I'd try it and trust my own observations. If you don't want to, fine with me. >Ignition has nothing to due with plug wetting unless it doesn't fire. You've only made my point. Wet plugs _don't_ fire. That's the point. Turning the ground strap to shield to center electrode from the incoming "rain" of raw fuel seems to help keep them dry enough to fire on a cold start. Funny how one can learn a LOT more by reading papers written by REAL engineers and scientists--who, back in the 1930's, tested MANY piston engines to DESTRUCTION--because pilots' lives depended upon their research--than you can learn from computer simulations--ISN'T it ?? Back then, the experimenters didn't worry about what was 'politically correct', they worried,worked, and OBJECTIVELY analyzed what actually WORKED in the REAL world--not on a silicon chip !! And they strove, mightily, to avoid letting the NIH syndrome and personal agendas interfere with their interpretation of test results !! There's a potent lesson in the above !! Greg -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft. Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
