DeTomaso Mailing List: August 97, Message #238
     



From: pantera@shiseis.com (Shane F. Ingate)

Subject: Realization

Date: Fri, 8 Aug 97 12:04:36 PDT



A sheet of paper blew across my desk the other day and as I browsed through

it the realisation of a basic truth came to me. So simple! So obvious that

I could not see it.



Walter Canivien, chairman of an Amateur Radio Group had discovered how

integrated circuits work. He revealed that smoke was one thing that made

IC's function because every time you let the smoke out of one it stops

working. Walter claims to have verified this fact through extensive

testing.



I was flabbergasted! Of Course! Smoke makes all things electrical work.

Remember the last time you let smoke escape from your alternator? Stopped

working, didn't it? I sat back and smiled like an idiot (that's not very

difficult for me) as the realization dawned. It's the wiring harness that

carries the smoke from one electrical device to another. Whenever the

harness springs a leak and lets smoke out, various electrical devices stop

working all at once.



Feeling very smug by this time, I continued to elucidate this theory.

Starter motors which are very heavy users of smoke need such large

diameters of wire for this purpose. Why are Lucas electrics more prone to

leakage than say AC? Well now, Joseph Lucas was British, right? British

convertibles leak water. British sun roofs leak water. British engines leak

oil. British displacer units leak hydraulic fluid (ask any owner of a BMC

FWD). British tyres leak air. British Ministry of Defence leak secrets.

Naturally British Electrics leak smoke. Right! RIGHT!!



Similar logic can be applied to Italian cars.



	Shane Ingate in San Diego



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