Re: Rim Pull - Sizing Manual Valve Actuators

From: <Christopher>
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 12:19:00 EST

On Mar 8, 2005, at 10:54 PM, Steve McKenzie wrote:

> 30kg = about 66 lbs . multiply by 1.2 (wet service) to allow for
> stiction and you get about 80 lb.

Oooh! Oooh! I have witnessed dimensional impurity! kilograms are mass, not force. I must now undergo the Buckingham pi sanctification ritual--dressing in sackcloth and ashes and become a mendicant eating locusts preaching to the heathen of the evils of feet and inches, gallons and units of measure not named for dead physicists.

Alas! it would have been better for me had I been caught with resumés written in English in Montreal.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=hikyCt61l4fcwI0lOGH_mCTVFDv0CEbhg9WjFt9eQ8I4vtwTGKkojtgdiHO7TsT64KgEQrS1k7nWx6c">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

1864)
<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a> Received on Wed Mar 09 12:19:00 2005