< I never realised that Wipac was part of Lucas >
I don't think they were. This link suggests that they are still going strong under that name: About Wipac - Wipac |
Er - I think most people know that calling someone a name related to fruit is somewhat different to a name related to sewage.
I respectfully suggest that if you were to call, say, an African or an Asian race "Sewage" - short for for Sewage Farm - a direct equivalent to calling someone a septic tank - on the basis of some fanciful connection to a "rhyme" you would find yourself correctly and rightly buried in all kinds of trouble - for being nastily racist. So why/how is it OK to call Americans that? Is it becoz they is white? Does not compute. Anyway, racism apart septic is a thoroughly nasty and offensive term, you wouldn't dare to use it to an American's face would you? It is grossly unpleasant and thus not acceptable by any normal standards of manners or decency. |
As an American I accept septic as a normal way of disposing of waste. Not offensive at all. Now the Florida Keys has a brand new sewer system so septic systems are gone. Two years ago that was the only way to dispose of waste. We had the same system on our farm growing up. Why do people get so up tight about nothing? My polish roomate knew every polish joke and loved to tell them. Learn to laugh at yourself, it makes you healthier.
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Originally Posted by Agaricus bisporus
(Post 7739870)
Anyway, racism apart septic is a thoroughly nasty and offensive term, you wouldn't dare to use it to an American's face would you?
Rhyming slang can bite you if you get into the etymology though - A lot of people use "berk" thinking it's fairly innocuous, I hear kids use it and as a kid I even heard teachers use it on occasion. I doubt that'd be the case if it were more widely known that "berk" is a contraction of "Berkeley Hunt"... :} |
AB
Perhaps you would prefer another rhyming slang
Thick as a .... Just going for a .... Or maybe you just don't understand semantics? |
Speaking with an electronic systems designers' hat on, the idea of spraying WD-40 around electrics willy-nilly doesn't strike me as wholly wise. As the MSDS makes clear, WD-40 is nothing more than a mixture of white spirit and mineral oil. Neither is particularly good for either the galvanic properties of conductors or the long-term insulation properties of many plastics. Quite where WD-40 acquired its stellar reputation is a mystery.
If you want to disperse water and keep condensation out of an engine bay, a silicon/PTFE spray will do the job effectively. If you want to clean low-voltage or low-current connectors, propanol and a toothbrush works well. |
If you want to disperse water and keep condensation out of an engine bay, a silicon/PTFE spray will do the job effectively. If you want to clean low-voltage or low-current connectors, propanol and a toothbrush works well. While I still have a can or two, my preference is also silicon spray. The cheapest way to buy it is to look for "Silicon Mold Release Agent". Basically, silicon grease in an aerosol.. Fixes the old style distributor caps for good and also prevents electrolytic corrosion in multipin auto connectors... |
cockney steve, #44:
@syseng. You' Sir, are a true masochist. trying to stop the noise of an Alfa rusting, whilst struggling to make the engine run with that wonderful brown MM bakelite distributor cap which had built -in tracking.(the earlier form of theft-prevention which pinched the term.) Well, everyone knew that the bodywork came free with Alfas, but where else could could you buy a car with twin cam alloy engine, twin Weber carbs, 5 speed gearbox, limited slip diff and properly located axles for a few hundred pounds ?. Yes, they all needed work, but the performance made it worthwhile and provided forced education in the gentle art of mechanics :O... |
The gentle art of mechanics
Ah, the gentle art of mechanics. It should be a qualification for certification for every mechanical engineer to disassemble an engine down to each bolt and piston ring and rebuild it to hum (I've done a few) as it should be for every computer engineer to rebuild a wonky motherboard (and debug a peripheral driver) and every physician to be a hospital patient (been there too). One can't be a real engineer or physician without experiencing the practice of one's profession. Unfortunately, management MBA's are only trained by case studies of the latest corporate wheeze (most of which went bankrupt five years later) and can only relate to the sizzle and not the steak (viz. the latest verbiage from Boeing PR).
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WD40 is petroleum based, so rots rubber and is also inflammable. While I still have a can or two, my preference is also silicon spray. The cheapest way to buy it is to look for "Silicon Mold Release Agent". Basically, silicon grease in an aerosol.. Fixes the old style distributor caps for good and also prevents electrolytic corrosion in multipin auto connectors... I have always wondered how spraying silicon etc onto electrical connections makes them work. Apart from driving off water, one would expect it to cause bad connections by it's insulating properties? (and I speak as an erstwhile electronics engineer). |
Uplinker: The OED accepts inflammable and flammable as equivalent. Pedant alert: the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) tries to keep English speakers communicating efficiently. The in- prefix of inflammable means supporting. A monolayer of silicone on electrical contacts would only be an insulator for microvolt potential differences.
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I once saw a toggle switch burn up not long after someone decided to lubricate it with silicone spray. I've always figured the cause was resistance from silicone on the contacts. But I could, of course, be wrong.
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if anyone is experiencing problems with Lucas electrics (they are actually A/C, with a random frequency), you may need this replacement part
http://www.mez.co.uk/smoke2.jpg " Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke kit, P/N 530433, along with the very rare Churchill Tool 18G548BS adapter tube and metering valve. " this one was for sale on eBay, but these original service kits are hard to find |
I have always wondered how spraying silicon etc onto electrical connections makes them work. Apart from driving off water, one would expect it to cause bad connections by it's insulating properties? (and I speak as an erstwhile electronics engineer). contacts. They also often carry significant current and have voltage drop across the contacts, so it only takes a little moisture to produce electrolytic corrosion and the "white powder effect". The contacts slide on mate and there's pressure between the surfaces. A thin film of silicon spray forms a bubble around the mating surfaces, while at the same time being easily penetrated by contact pressure to form a good contact. Modern autos typically have dozens of connectors, many of which are exposed and even if they are rubber sealed, this perishes over time to let the damp in. I tend to keep my cars for years, even decades, so I perhaps see more of this sort of problem than others... |
I've spent years cleaning electrical contacts with various products, and have always wondered that.
I also keep my cars for too long and know about the problems of which you speak. :rolleyes: Thanks kilo, that must have changed then, because it used to mean the opposite - or was that an urban myth? (Like I said I did issue a 'pedant alert' !!) |
Language pedant
Inflammable.
The problem is that the prefix in- has two origins. One is Germanic, and intensifies the meaning of the compound; the other derives from a Latin prefix in-, which negatives the meaning of the compound. Normally, people know which is which by context. AFAIK, the original word was "inflammable" with intensifying in-. But, of course, some people took the wrong meaning, so the word "flammable" was invented, for labelling purposes. For me, the word is "inflammable" in normal usage (as in "highly inflammable" or "an inflammable personality"), but I'd for sure put "flammable" on a bottle of solvent. P.S., the true pedants will notice that I have somewhat simplified the in- thing; and also that "flammable" did exist in the 1800s, but was rare until its adoption on elf and safety grounds. |
Habitable and inhabitable follow the same logic.
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Originally Posted by syseng68k
(Post 7743824)
WD40 is petroleum based, so rots rubber and is also inflammable.
That said, I think in more modern vehicles the "rubber" on things like HT leads etc. is actually synthetic. |
Ah, the gentle art of mechanics. It should be a qualification for certification for every mechanical engineer to disassemble an engine... stress on the practical, rather than abstracting the whole process off into some cad package or other. Not that i'm against cad, just the oppposite, but how do trainee engineers get the practical experience these days ?. Working with hand and machine tools should be part of the process and there's nothing like hands on working with metal to get an instinctive understanding of it's characteristics and limits. You can't get that from cad packages and "design rule sets" are by nature generic and not necessarily optimum... If you are similar age, then our generation cut our teeth on motorcycles, often fixing by the roadside, before somehow getting cheap mot failure cars fixed and through the mot. So many people these days seem so completely devoid of clue w/respect to anything mechanical and would rather pay garages 50-100 ukp / hour, for the most trivial of faults. Starting to sound like grumpy old sod, but what happened to scientific curiosity, the right stuff and pursuit of excellence for it's own sake ?. Just one more pointer to the general decline and fall of Western civilisation :sad:... |
I agree with you Chris,
I never cease to be amazed when I see a car with a flat on the side of the road, and instead of the guy changing the wheel, he is standing there clueless and calling someone on his phone. Same goes for gals too by the way - everyone should know how to change a wheel. Unless she's nice looking, in which case I might stop and help..... |
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