Re: [AMC-list] we're all a bunch of wimps

[tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> .  I'm now a wimp and proud of it.
>

Amen and pass the safety goggles.




The key to reliability (and safety, etc) is REDUNDANCY. I'm all for redneck
engineering; I'm a Yankee, not exactly a redneck, but related. Yankee
ingenuity and all that crap.

But redundancy is the key to success. Track racers don't use it, but
endurance racers do, as does aircraft, aerospace, and the Postal Service.
Filling the tank with CO2 gas *probably* is enough, but consequences are
extreme when it's not.

The opposite of redundancy is typical 'old car' -- battery is old and weak,
battery cables suck, the alternator is not putting out enough, the carb is
out of tune, plugs and wires are old, and you crank it too much, and it
won't start.... car goes to hell in a handbasket all in one shopping trip.

Farmers and sensible rednecks should want to live to the next repair! At
least that welder did have a CO2 extinguisher and the video guy (who stood
waaay back!) there.
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