Electrical Syrup
POSTED BY: Mark
UPDATED: Thursday, December 12, 2002 23:00
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Originally posted by Hardware:
How about this, what if DC is just a techie abbreviation for a piece of equipment, like oh, I don't know... maybe DOCKING CLAMP?
Booo-ring. ;-)
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Originally posted by Hardware:
How about this, what if DC is just a techie abbreviation for a piece of equipment, like oh, I don't know... maybe DOCKING CLAMP?
Hardware, you are a beautiful man, or woman, or whatever. The point is you are right and I love you for it.
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Yay! We all got no-prizes!!! Are no-prizes like any-keys? Because I never can find that gorram elusive any-key.
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The evidence being that the stuff that came out was the same color as hydrolic fluid and that the booby trap was rigged into the hydrolic airlock.
Sorry to rain on your parade buddy... And also on the parade of whoever said D.C. stood for Docking Clamp... But that line wasn't the feeder line to the hydraulics. How do I know? Simple. The clamp is actively holding the ships locked which means the system is active and pressurised. If Kaylee had cut an active hydraulic hose then the oil would have sliced her hand off.
Secondly, there's no-way she could cut a hydraulic line with a pair of pliers like that... Those things are armoured to take many MANY KG/Cm2 - Is that Pascals?
Oh, and it doesn't have to be hydraulic fluid because it's the same colour. I use a hydraulic press on a regular basis that uses yellow oil, not red.
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Originally posted by Mark:
Secondly, there's no-way she could cut a hydraulic line with a pair of pliers like that... Those things are armoured to take many MANY KG/Cm2 - Is that Pascals?
Well yes but the line kaylee cut could have been the feed line. Not much presure in the feed line.
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Oh, and it doesn't have to be hydraulic fluid because it's the same colour. I use a hydraulic press on a regular basis that uses yellow oil, not red.
Well a hydrolic press is a different beast then say a back hoe or a cat. They use red hydrolic fluid in those...the difference being that a hydrolic press would have more robust needs and probably a different fluid type. My guess, seeing as how the airlock doors or the docking clamp would only need to open or close then stop rather then the constant pressure of a hydrolic press, that it would use the type of fluid used in a back hoe arm. ie the red stuff.
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Originally posted by Mark:
Yay! We all got no-prizes!!! Are no-prizes like any-keys? Because I never can find that gorram elusive any-key.
I use a hydraulic press on a regular basis that uses yellow oil, not red.
Actually the no-prize came in a nice envelope, suitable for framing.
The any-key is the widest one at the bottom.
Cherry juice was red hydralic fluid. It was replaced in US Army tanks with FRH (Fire Resistant Hydralic) fluid which was gold. It also wasn't fire resistant any more than Cherry Juice, but it was much more expensive and made everyone feel something good had been done.
Jeff
Who is old, grey and cynical.
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