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Gunner Asch

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Apr 7, 2010, 7:11:43 PM4/7/10
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pyotr filipivich

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Apr 8, 2010, 3:54:46 AM4/8/10
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I missed the Staff Meeting but the Minutes record that Gunner Asch
<gunne...@gmail.com> reported Elvis on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:11:43
-0700 in misc.survivalism:
>http://home.comcast.net/~steveham21/turbo.mpg
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Now that sounds scientific. And he has a white lab coat.

You reckon he's going to need any machinist in the production of
this wonderful device?
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pyotr filipivich.
Just about the time you finally see light at the end of the tunnel,
you find out it's a Government Project to build more tunnel.

Randy

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Apr 9, 2010, 9:10:46 AM4/9/10
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On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:11:43 -0700, Gunner Asch <gunne...@gmail.com>
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>http://home.comcast.net/~steveham21/turbo.mpg
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><VBG>
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>Gunner


Very similar to this this device:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5125780462773187994#


Thank You,
Randy

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Doug White

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Apr 9, 2010, 9:04:14 AM4/9/10
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Both videos are based on "The Turbo Encabulator in Industry", which was
written a very long time ago (I have a copy in a book entitled "Random
Walks in Science", which I highly recommend). I'd guess it's 1960's
vintage. I can look it up if folks are curious.

Back around 1990, I was working on a laser communications system to fly on
NASA's Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS). We had some
blueprints of the satellite structure so we could figure out the mounting
interface. Buried in the middle of a large complex drawing was a little
note with an arrow pointing to some piece of the structure. It said "Nofor
Trunnion", and I knew immediately that the draftsman was a Turbo
Encabulator fan.

Doug White

Doug White

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Apr 9, 2010, 9:09:54 AM4/9/10
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Doug White <gwh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote in
news:Xns9D555C45626DA...@69.16.186.7:

It's older than I thought. I found this on-line: "The turbo-encabulator
in industry" is the contribution of J.H. Quick, graduate member of the
Institution of Electrical Engineers in London, England, and was first
published in the Institution's Students' Quarterly Journal vol 15 no. 58
p. 22 in December 1944."

Doug White

James Waldby

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Apr 9, 2010, 11:00:22 AM4/9/10
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On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:09:54 +0000, Doug White wrote:
> Doug White <gwh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote ...

>
>> Both videos are based on "The Turbo Encabulator in Industry", which was
>> written a very long time ago (I have a copy in a book entitled "Random
>> Walks in Science", which I highly recommend). I'd guess it's 1960's
>> vintage. I can look it up if folks are curious.
>>
>> Back around 1990, I was working on a laser communications system to fly
>> on NASA's Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS). We had
>> some blueprints of the satellite structure so we could figure out the
>> mounting interface. Buried in the middle of a large complex drawing
>> was a little note with an arrow pointing to some piece of the
>> structure. It said "Nofor Trunnion", and I knew immediately that the
>> draftsman was a Turbo Encabulator fan.
...

> It's older than I thought. I found this on-line: "The turbo-encabulator
> in industry" is the contribution of J.H. Quick, graduate member of the
> Institution of Electrical Engineers in London, England, and was first
> published in the Institution's Students' Quarterly Journal vol 15 no. 58
> p. 22 in December 1944."
...

On a metalworking note, the 1962 GE turboencabulator version has tremie-
pipes made of Crapaloy (tungsten cowhide). See note under "Case" in
second picture at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator>.

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jiw

Larry Jaques

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Apr 10, 2010, 12:24:55 AM4/10/10
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:00:22 +0000 (UTC), the infamous James Waldby
<n...@no.no> scrawled the following:

I want antigravic marzelvanes on my next car! They're sure to reduce
sinusoidal depleneration during air maneuvers.

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while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
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