Nudie tail on concrete-filled convertible?
D.F. Manno
<http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/classifieds/automotive/4829725.htm>
in its automotive section on electromagnetic compatibility. The
article tells the purportedly true story of a concrete-filled
convertible, although infidelity was not involved.
> Why should drivers care about something called electromagnetic
> compatibility?
>
> Try this story:
>
> A cement truck complete with a spinning mixer stops at an intersection.
> A semi, equipped with a CB radio, pulls alongside, and a convertible
> stops behind the cement truck.
>
> While waiting for the light to change, the semi driver starts talking
> on his CB.
>
> The CB's signal activates the cement mixer, which dumps its load of wet
> cement into the convertible.
>
> Kimball Williams, senior staff engineer for Underwriters Laboratories
> Inc., said this event, which happened in Los Angeles in the 1970s as
> electronics products became popular, was one of many in which the
> energy from two electronic products interfered with each other, with
> life-threatening consequences....
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David Lesher
>The Sunday (29 Dec) Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article
><http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/classifieds/automotive/4829725.htm>
>in its automotive section on electromagnetic compatibility. The
>article tells the purportedly true story of a concrete-filled
>convertible, although infidelity was not involved.
>> The CB's signal activates the cement mixer, which dumps its load of wet
>> cement into the convertible.
Err; you dump a mixer by reversing its direction of rotation.
While it may be possible to have electronic controls on same; most
of the ones I have seen have a big clutch/transmission or hydraulic
valve you slam over....
But I seem to recall we have a resident expert on such things.
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