02 Jul 08 08:13, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> That's easy. As you get older you tend to do more relaxing. Relaxing
 RW>> doesn't do anything to keep your belly muscles in shape (or your
 RW>> butt muscles for that matter). As a result, when you stand up,
 RW>> gravity pulls on your gut and your stomach muscles can't hold them
 RW>> back.

 RN> So, by that reckoning, if I stand on my head fifteen minutes a day,
 RN> my over-sized belly would wind up in my chest?  (-:

It's already too late to reverse it. :o) You'd have more luck in doing ab
excercises to strengthen you belly muscles. Sit ups work fairly well.

 RW>> I always thought the best research on sharks would be when they're
 RW>> dead.

 RN> Ah, but then you wouldn't learn their habits.  To me they are simply
 RN> eating machines.  I stopped surf fishing in the Gulf because of them.
 RN> This weekend is the best time of year to surf fish in the Gulf, so
 RN> Joe and I are going, except I'll be sitting in his boat instead of
 RN> standing in three feet of salt water.

A guy who worked for me would go fishing in San Diego bay or just off
shore of Point Loma. When he caught a shark, he'd beat it over the head
with a pipe and then throw it back. The other sharks performed cannibalism
right before his eyes.

 RW>> That's typical. Most hams want to do everything on the cheap, so
 RW>> they skimp on buying factory made gear and salvage from junk boxes
 RW>> what they can get for little or nothing. He probably built that
 RW>> computer from a kit.

 RN> He did.  He was the Mr Know-it-all of Houma.

That reminds me of that high school buddy who got me interested in radio.
He had forgotten more than I'll ever know.

 RW>> In San Diego, there is a ham radio related swap meet at a local
 RW>> drive-in movie. The hams go thru the junk boxes people bring and buy
 RW>> the old computer stuff for pennies on the dollar.

 RN> I would have done that with the 1980 issues of Compute! and PC
 RN> Magazine. As an aside, when I didn't renew my subscription to PC
 RN> Ragazine (it became that in the mid-to-late Nineties), I received a
 RN> mildly threatening letter from its editor.  WOW!

I never subscribed to any of those for the same reason why I dropped the
Photography mag. It was 98% ads and no substance worth my time. Most HAMs
dropped 73 magazine because of the rants by the author.

 RW>> RN> I'd rather do it myself.

 RW>> I got tired of doing that.

 RN> I can't pull wrenches anymore.

It's awfully hard to pull a wrench when your pot belly won't let you under
the hood.

 RW>> Not only that, but your little 283 didn't have the torque to beat
 RW>> much of anything from a standing start. Although that short stroke
 RW>> allowed them to rev to over 7000rpm from the factory, which allowed
 RW>> them to catch up. I always had a smile on my face while watching
 RW>> them go down the drag strip with a Ford trying to keep up. Some of
 RW>> those had that 312 T-bird engine and couldn't do it.

 RN> You forget I had a Corvette engine in it with solid lifters, a
 RN> Mallory dual-point distributor, an Engel 3/4 race cam, an Edelbrock
 RN> 3-pot intake manifold, and three dueces sitting on the manifold, to
 RN> say nothing of what we did to the heads and manifolds.  The car
 RN> looked innocent enough.  Did you receive that picture I sent?

With such a short stroke, 3", it depended on RPM, rather than torque to
move the car. Chevrolet's 265s and 283s could rev to 7000rpm from the
factory. Ford's 5L had the same problem with it's 3" short stroke.

Launching a 3500 lb car without torque won't happen as fast as the same
car with a longer stroke engine in it. That's why Chevrolet increased the
stroke to 3.25" (327) and eventually to 3.48" (350).

Hot rodders stroked them even more with the a 3.75" crank. These act like
they're big block engines with more torque than you could imagine having
in a 3" stroke engine.

 RN> The site you gave me yesterday finally came online and I did indeed
 RN> find The Soldier on DVD there, but just as I feared, it was PAL
 RN> format, which won't play on NTSC players.

Awww. Did you ask them if they carried it in NTSC?

                R\%/itt



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