DeTomaso Mailing List: June 2001, Message #41

When you were working in the Ford Pantera program in the 70s, like Bill
Mason, did you have a different experience?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Dellavecchia" <guido_detomaso@prodigy.net>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: fans


> A cute story Matt.  If you really believe this, I'll give you $100 for
every
> car on the road today with electric fans that run constantly, but you give
> me one cent for every fan on a thermostat...
>
> Guy D.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matt Bradley <mbradley@directlink.net>
> To: Guy Dellavecchia <guido_detomaso@prodigy.net>; Multiple recipients of
> list <detomaso@realbig.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:59 PM
> Subject: Re: fans
>
>
> > You might find this info useful then...in the Fall 2000, Issue 104, of
the
> > Pantera International quarterly, Bill Mason's Diary (Part II) excerpt:
> >
> > "One more good thing they discovered about the fan motors was the fact
> that
> > if an electric motor is turned off and on constantly it shortens the
life
> > span of the thing by more than half!  I had three professional type
people
> > from three different electric equipment companies all tell me the same
> > thing.  So, contrary to the common old wives 'tale, running constantly
as
> in
> > the case of our rewired fan motors not only keeps the engine cool, it's
> good
> > for the motors, too!"