for both tips.. shoulda known - those rollickin MBAs at Scheissesaft would get the rilly Important stuff done to a fare-thee-well. Of course! I can have a mauve bkg for those inspired paens to goodness n' stuff..

Will try to fumble a circle pic. of sufficient umm granularity - re the chassis end of Msr. Adret's creations - what's on the chassis is:

Fluted plastic cylinder, 1.3 cm in OD; also 1.3 com protruding. Inside the cyl. are 3 pins in equil. triangle.
(so mating connector would have 3 er vaginas and an ID of ~ to this one's OD). By fluted I mean - ~8 smooth few-mm deep smooth half-round grooves in axial direction, on outside of what might have been just a piece of plastic tubing (maybe even.. diallyl phthalate - try Sayin that 6x, fast! ;-) None would need carry even 4 amps at 120V-ac.

Complicating above is: the cutaway 'hook slots?' which suggest a mating "twist-to-lock" type outer shell, when the plug is inserted home.

Have no idea how non-standardized are such across Euro (no "IEC" there?) - am aware of course, of the various bizness end plugs and their variety. If this description bears no resemblace to what you've seen there before - please, never mind. I may be able to hook up with a NJ ex-distrib, on a good day.

Just enjoyin the fruits of the usual %&*#%^# countless details like SET TMP=%temp% + puttin 'hosts' file in \\windoze + erasin the spyware ap in Nutscrape 4.5 which wants you to help with a survey and... {sigh} rememberin perzackly Where ya'd better fuckin SYS the HD - when it's not clear whether Billy or 98-lite are runnin the install.

The game little Tecra may next become a real notebook again, fer checkin on them Cayman accounts from the backseat of my Cisitalia*

*OK Mr. TMWKFE - -

Hell, I even used the new-fangled Direct-X not-to-be confused with Acti-Vex stuff to.. listen to an MP3 !! (OK it was Amelita Galli-Curci not HotLeadSoup) Now to investigate Mt. Ghost and try to save this virgin, Reg-Cleaned, massaged registry from the vicissitudes of autodidactin itself to death.

Cheers,

Ashton
Wow! 3 installs in a week or so, with driver snipe-hunts n' sneakin-in 98SE cabs for 98 ones .. migawd - honorary IT-geek fer-a-Day? (Er.. that was 3 installs / 2 machines - hadda wipe the Lite-free first one, for just plain Goodness' sake.. Natch Different video, sound, modem drivers. Natch)








now about makin them CDs bootable next always somethin which is why there be monasteries

Can't vet your recollections.
(I'd be surprised though, to hear that a Cisitalia model ever Had a back seat ;-)

I did once see / touch a real Merc. SLR (of the ill-fated '55 Le Mans crash/fire) magnesium body - at Mercedes museum in Stuttgart.

(The troops were more fascinated by my new red A-H Sprite! than - about Their stuff!) Cackle.. I let one of 'em drive it about the parking lot, while I was seeing about getting a service manual for a friend's 300SL gullwing.

(That had *no* power steering and drove like truck. 'Course over 200 kph it all smoothed out, I'm told)

It was much more fun bein car-nutz before Evrybody thought they knew what was Kool... and we got the Thunderbird, and proved in Murica that,

When Murica builds a small car.. it will be the longest, widest heaviest lo-mileage! small car the world has ever seen ..and, that's what we did :-)

Cheers,

I.

Indeed my maroon '47, coachwork by Signore Pinifarina (~ Zizi Jeanmaire renamed er Jeanmaire = to the -1?) has a back seat, but since I never let the chauffeur drive this one, I prolly can't use the Tecra in the back seat - unless stopped at a local soiree - but why would I want to do That, Then? (And the ignition is.. a bit pesky in downpours - still)

Hey.. did you know that Bugattis (of the Ettore vintage) used *square* cam followers? Yep: pour some babbit into the difficultly swaged-out square hole (not to be confused with Sinclair Lewis's prototypical Murican marketer George Babbitt) --

Then hand scrape til the tappet smoothly slides up & down with required clearance. His logic: The full 'width' was desirable since there was only one plane of needed motion - a much simpler round one, would have wasted that chance for er 'uniform and low wear rate' (for any given area).

Great idea if your labor for original assembly is paid in vino de tavola, I guess ? And a perfect application of the monumental idea:

always note the number of 'degrees of freedom' in a mechanism; never use a 'redundant constraint'. Ex: a 3-leg stool is perfect - 3 points determine a plane, even on an uneven floor. 4 legs? chair wobbly if it Isn't a perfectly flat floor

Ah well, there were indeed Craftspersons alive on this planet.. I have wondered - what the Vincents might have been like, with the genius of Phil Irving et al? - had the British not had to build stuff from the clapped-out machinery still working at end of WW-II.. while the umm loosers got all brand new stuff + techno help yada yada (?)

(The fork blades were made from melted-down surplus Spitfire propellers, it has been said)

Sorry, nostalgia ain't what it used to be..


Ashton
never before has so much been