Re: Rim Pull - Sizing Manual Valve Actuators

From: <Christopher>
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 22:03:00 EST

On Mar 9, 2005, at 2:33 PM, Steve McKenzie wrote:

> I am at this minute
> pleading redemption at the altar of the great Slug.
I feel the earth sipping back into it's familiar orbit. I think all I need do is saute the last of these locusts and this weighty, that is to say massive, matter appears to be restored.

> Coming from an enlightened but still antidisestablishmentarianistic
> country, I do not view anthropomorphism based measurement units as
> "bad",

According to my freshman chemistry text, Henri Beauclerc seems to have bee a pleasant sort whose arm actually was precisely one-ten millionth the length of the meridian through Paris in the 12th century. The Jacobins and that lot got it wrong because they were more interested in catching that dam'd elusive Pimpernel, than in a proper survey. We should've used 'milli-versts' anyway.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=TKgqcJY4tnU7ktWkQ_YtK1zosF6w7hlXFMU_Z1sccXwaX9JeniTWaAsFjug7zfCVTbUb21YwSwy1epmJ">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 22:03:00 2005