Re: flange failure

>My assumption (and perhaps that of
>most of the rest of us) was that Lakshmi's question "Can anyone tell me
>what happened to this flange?" was a challenge, a test of sorts. He had
>a problem, investigated, figured it out, then decided to pass along his
>newfound knowledge to this discussion group. Perhaps that assumption was
>incorrect. Perhaps Lakshmi doesn't know what happened and is asking the
>group if we can help him figure it out. Just a theory...

I don't much like being jerked around in either case. Especially since he seems so hipped on being professional about the whole thing.

Christopher Wright P.E.    |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
chrisw@skypoint.com        | this distance"   (last words of Gen.
___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)