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- From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Rube Goldberg device wanted...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.000340.12138@kestrel.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:03:40 GMT
- Sender: news@kestrel.edu (News)
- Organization: Reasoning Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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- The Ultimate Chain Cleaner would...
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- in a bath of clean solvent/lubricant...
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- take apart, hold apart for a second or two, and then reassemble one
- link, and then step the chain to the next link.
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- If you build it right you need not remove the bike from the chain, yet
- you would get far more grit out than you could hope to with any other
- method.
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- Tolerances in the hypothetical machine would be critical; the automatic
- reassembly has to be somewhere around 99.95% reliable [which would cause
- about one chain cleaning failure in twenty attempts].
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- This beast could be installed at bike shops. You put your bike in the right
- place, put a quarter in the slot, and wander around the shop for five minutes
- while the beast grinds away. Shop owners would love it because you would be
- forced to window shop for five minutes per week while you're waiting to get
- your steed back*. Bike owners would love it because they are relieved of a
- weekly messy chore. System administrators would love it because the bicycle
- FAQ would get 15% smaller, and newsgroup volume would decrease by 20% or more
- (|;-) . By presenting this idea to the general public i might even have atoned
- to the world for all of the disk space consumed by .~n~ files in Gnu Emacs.
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- -dk
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- * The effort of cleaning the drool off the counter would be more than offset by
- an occasional sale
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