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- Wed May 14, 2008 7:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Chamber drawing for .348 Win Model 71
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1902
The dimensions from Dunlop's drawing match those that SAAMI puts out. SAAMI will sell you an older version of their standards; see their web site . Most of the rest of the world follows the standards of Europe's CIP, and they have their standards on their web site . I'm surprised Steve's Pages is st...
- Wed May 14, 2008 5:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
Both railroad locomotives and earthmoving machines have used hydraulic drives. While rugged and versatile, energy efficiency suffers. Sloshing all that oil around generates a lot of waste heat. With the warning that my memory is hardly infallible, my recollection is that all-hydraulic drives on trac...
- Tue May 13, 2008 3:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
Agreed; these are where one can start to add up to 15%, but the differential (a big loss), CVTs, etc. are not traditionally considered part of the tranny; they are components of the entire driveline. The current hybrids keep a driveline to handle the power from the piston engine when the batteries a...
- Mon May 12, 2008 6:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
Sore shoulder, 15% loss for an entire driveline sounds a trifle high, but I can believe it. Regardless, I was talking about the transmission alone, and I'll stand by my 90%+ number. I think they usually reckon 2% loss per gear interface, and there's only 2 under load in a manual transmission; bearin...
- Mon May 12, 2008 3:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
- Mon May 12, 2008 2:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
- Mon May 12, 2008 2:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Leverguns South African Safari results Pt 1
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3385
- Mon May 12, 2008 1:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
Grizz, it's no different. You can't split water with electricity generated from an IC engine and then get back out of the IC engine more than what you put in when burning it originally. That's perpetual motion. About the only way to improve the basic thermal efficiency of an IC engine now is to capt...
- Mon May 12, 2008 11:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
Grizz, water injection works in engines with hot intake charges. The water displaces some air, but in cooling the air, the water makes the total intake of oxygen greater. More oxygen means more fuel can be burned which in turn means more power out of the same displacement. The cooling can also reduc...
- Mon May 12, 2008 4:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
I don't know if this is for real It's not. It violates basic principles of physics. Ask them how come they are buying back their stock to raise the price I've read it's as simple as there's nothing better to do with the profits. Exploration is going on like mad, but there's not enough places left t...
- Sat May 10, 2008 12:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
Correct on all counts, BAGTIC. I'm driving here a Camry sized car with a 1.8L engine. There is plenty of acceleration, and I do better than 34 mpg all around, city and highway. We in the US are truly spoiled kiddies. Gotta accelerate fast, gotta have 3 tons of mass, gotta have an automatic tranny, g...
- Sat May 10, 2008 7:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
I went looking further. Seems the original estimates for the ND field were wildly inflated . U.S. geologists released their report last month. They reckon there's about 4 or 5 billion barrels to be extracted there economically at today's prices . Compare this to the proven reserves of over 200 billi...
- Sat May 10, 2008 6:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - oil supply conversation
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9255
- Fri May 09, 2008 5:58 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How come the 180 grain .44 is so wimpy?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4271
- Thu May 01, 2008 2:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - The French
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3368
... interviews with WWII vets about what they experienced during the war. One comment that I found interesting was that most American soldiers said ... they ... had the most in common with were the Germans. It wasn't just in WW-II. My grandfather felt this way after returning to the U.S. after WW-I.
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marlinman93's Computer Won't Let Him Access The Forum.......
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2310
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Global Warming,better believe it
- Replies: 115
- Views: 11673
All the industrialized countries have birth rates below the level needed to sustain populations. It seems people get lazy when they are wealthy. If the poor countries grow too fast, nature will take its ugly course and deal with it. It's not clear they will voluntarily cut their birth rates in time,...
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Global Warming,better believe it
- Replies: 115
- Views: 11673
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Global Warming,better believe it
- Replies: 115
- Views: 11673
That is not what I said. My mistake, then. it's estimated they contain enough usable oil to last the US at our present rate of increase in consumption for a couple hundred years. I think that would have made the financial press. Can you point me to press releases from the relevant oil companies? Th...
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Global Warming,better believe it
- Replies: 115
- Views: 11673
My apologies to that site's owner. The most interesting fact they note is that the US output per well is tiny. Surely this indicates many (most?) of the existing fields are pretty well tapped out. I've not read of any major new fields off the US. There was one in the news recently, but nothing more ...
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Global Warming,better believe it
- Replies: 115
- Views: 11673
I think this is misleading. The US is slipping because other countries are producing more. Sorry, the sad fact is that despite massive investment in incredible new technologies, oil production at home has been in decline for three decades now. How desperate the measures have been can be seen in the...
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Global Warming,better believe it
- Replies: 115
- Views: 11673
- Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Global Warming,better believe it
- Replies: 115
- Views: 11673
- Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A "Thank You" for AmBraCol and Hobie
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3125
- Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: .32 H&R Magnum Ruger Bearcats
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2978
- Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: .32 H&R Magnum Ruger Bearcats
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2978
- Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: .32 H&R Magnum Ruger Bearcats
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2978
- Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - D.C. and the Supremes
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2457
- Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: (Sharps 45-70) This is an awsome Elk.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4350
- Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Savage 99 to return !!!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8371
- Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-Ruger #1 in 405 Win
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3979
Re: OT-Ruger #1 in 405 Win
I hadn't heard that. They had such a superb reputation, I'm surprised. Did he loose interest in the business, or did the high price of metals combined with a small scale operation price him out of business, or...?Don McDowell wrote:Since Northfork has stopped bullet production...
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Savage 99 to return !!!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8371
- Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Savage 99 to return !!!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8371
Not to be a party-pooper, but John Haviland (he writes for Rifle and Handloader) recently posted this at 24hourCampfire.com: Exactly one year ago Mr. Coburn told me the Savage 99 would never come back because the design of the rifle required too much hand-fitting. Given the letter posted earlier, pr...
- Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Savage 99 to return !!!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8371
- Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: early .33 WCF loadings
- Replies: 5
- Views: 830
Thanks for the info. I'd remembered reading elsewhere the early .30 WCF loads were no where near what the factories claim today, and for that reason I could believe Whelen's number. That 2150 or so Sixgun has found in practice seems right as well, for Sharpe was listing that range as the old (circa ...
- Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: early .33 WCF loadings
- Replies: 5
- Views: 830
early .33 WCF loadings
Whelen's 1918 book says the .33 WCF was 200 gn at 2056 fps, not the 2200 fps often stated for this round. Does anyone here have an old Winchester catalog, circa 1903, showing what the factory was claiming for the early loads?
- Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Savage 99 to return !!!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8371
- Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Savage 99 to return !!!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8371
- Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: RL-15
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1453
Sorry, I don't have a .35 Rem myself; all I can report is the pressure tested results in Lyman's 48th. RL-7 gave excellent fps with jacketed bullets from 180 to 220 gn. It beat out 4064 at all weights. 3031 nudged it out at 180 gn and 4895 did as well at 200 gn. The RL-7 charge weights were consider...
- Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Obama & the 2nd
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3741
POLITICS - Obama & the 2nd
There's a Supreme Court case that's going to be decided fairly soon about what the Second Amendment means. I taught Constitutional Law for 10 years, so I've got my opinion. And my opinion is that the Second Amendment is probably -- it is an individual right and not just a right of the militia. That...
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .357 velocities vs 9mm & .40 in carbine
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3400
The .45 ACP data above may not be typical. Cor-Bon seems to aim for increased fps, probably by using compressed charges of slower powders. More typical .45 factory loads may not give such a bump in fps when fired in a carbine. My notebook has some numbers from the 8/88 issue of Shooting Times. In a ...
- Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marlin .45-70 blow up
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6267
I wonder if anybody could estimate the pressure of such a mis-load? The QuickLOAD simulator can make an estimate, but it is not likely to be spot on. I'll assume the shooter was throwing charges, that is, the charge of AA#7 was equal in volume to 48 gn of RL7. I'm assuming this because if he was we...
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Peter H Capstick a fraud?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 16380
Ok, folks, fearing my less than perfect memory may be making me a malicious gossip, I went and searched the posts at Accurate Reloading. I'll give here some excerpts from people who knew him or knew professionals who did. I found no one with evidence the bartender version is closest to the truth. Th...
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Peter H Capstick a fraud?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 16380
I don't believe one has to belittle a dead man to tell the truth about him. Quite true, and I don't see anyone here has tried to belittle him. A claim of fraud was put forth; I haven't seen any evidence he was. It has been a while since I read the exchanges at A.R. I was left with the impression al...
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Peter H Capstick a fraud?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 16380
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Peter H Capstick a fraud?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 16380
- Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Blade Front Sight ???
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1489
- Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Blade Front Sight ???
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1489
- Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I Miss Gus Hall
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2855
- Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Blade Front Sight ???
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1489