[AR] Re: Best Practices for Measuring Engine Temps with a Thermocouple
- From: George Herbert <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:15:32 -0700
Ben:
"Because it's apparently impossible to make a metallurgy joke so
obscure that no one sells it."
There were PhDs in the mid-late-90s that were literally the subject of bad
materials science technobabble jokes around Berkeley while I was an
undergrad there in the 80s to early 90s...
...some of which are now in commercial production.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Henry Vanderbilt
> <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yes, I was careful to weasel-word that and not say it was outright
> > impossible, because I *knew* someone would take that as a challenge
> <grin>
> >
> > But until Omega lists W/Re TC's as a stock item, I think I'm fairly safe
> in
> > calling it thoroughly impractical.
>
> http://www.kamet-trading.nl/Thermocouple_wires/Tungsten_Rhenium.html
>
> Because it's apparently impossible to make a metallurgy joke so
> obscure that no one sells it.
>
> Ben
>
>
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-george william herbert
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