Tell us something we don't know....

[toddnjoyce]

I’m watching Yosemite. And it’s ok.




Not good, but ok.

 

[vmax]

Thank you. I've always wondered how they made the nuts stay on the rims.

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Sometime later many teams used a thin cardboard washer with adhesive on both sides. The drawback of the “gorilla snot” as we called it, was on high humidity days, it would not set up firm enough and cause problems

 

[PhulesAu]

Then how come when grounding out an accessory (aftermarket light, for example), you can ground to the battery negative OR the frame?

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because "most" vehicles of the 12 volt persuasion are chassis grounded. body frame engine ETC. to make it easy you just have to supply the Positive. At least back when they actually made cars out of metal.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

because "most" vehicles of the 12 volt persuasion are chassis grounded. body frame engine ETC. to make it easy you just have to supply the Positive. At least back when they actually made cars out of metal.

Thats not what im getting at. GHG said the power cycle of a battery is negative to positive - not positive to negative. So I'm asking if that's so, how come in a light circuit you can hook the negative wire coming out of the light to frame, and it still powers on.

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[robertc1024]

1967 and earlier MGB's had a positive ground. (I had one)

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

So the whole frame is powered with enough current to run accessories? How does that not kill the battery?

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[Shotgun Jeremy]

Today I Learned about positive vs negative ground. That is definitely something I didn't know, and still don't even begin to understand.

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[Brains]

In order for electricity to do some sort of work, it has to complete a full round trip. It's the flow of electrons that transfer energy, and allow it to be converted into other forms of energy (e.g. electricity to light, electricity to magnetism, electricity to heat, etc.). Electricity from a battery ALWAYS flows from the cathode (negative pole) to the anode (positive pole). How it gets there and the material(s) it may traverse won't change the direction of flow.

In a modern vehicle, the chassis is considered to be "grounded", but more accurately it is merely connected to the negative terminal of the battery. The positive terminal is often the switched side of the circuit (but not always), with the load (the light, motor, etc.) in the middle. Some older vehicles had this reversed, and things worked just fine that way too, but chassis negative became the standard.

 

[robertc1024]

It has Lucas electrics. Enough said. Coolest thing was the mechanical voltage regulator.

 

[jrbfishn]

I used to work on motorcycles that had the finned rectifiers and mechanical regulators. The only good thing about them was it was cheap to rebuild them. But a pain in the ass. They went out often.

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[Ole Cowboy]

The song "Midnight Train to Georgia" was based upon Farrah Faucet Majors and Lee Majors relationship.

 

[BRD@66]

It has Lucas electrics. Enough said. Coolest thing was the mechanical voltage regulator.

Joe Lucas, aka the Prince of Darkness, holds the patent for the electrical short circuit.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

Joe Lucas, aka the Prince of Darkness, holds the patent for the electrical short circuit.

The Lucas motto: “Get home before dark”
Lucas - Inventor of the first intermittent wiper.
Lucas - Inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.
The three-position Lucas switch--DIM, FLICKER and OFF. The other three switch settings--SMOKE, SMOLDER and IGNITE.
The Original Anti-Theft Device - Lucas Electrics.

 

[Texasgordo]

On a battery. You have a positive and a negative. '+' and a '-'.

It was thought for the longest that electrons flow from positive into negative. That direction.

Electrons actually leave the negative(-) side and flows to the positive(+). The '+' is actually the negative on a (car) battery.


And I have webbed feet. Two toes each foot.

Pics of the feet?

I've never seen that and will probably regret it.


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[grasshopperglock]

Pics of the feet?

I've never seen that and will probably regret it.


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In southern folklore. Web feet are suppose to be the mark of a warlock. Idk about that, but man, I hated when my dad would offer to cut them apart with a jack knife. Like that joke ever got old.

I'm not taking pictures of my feet. Here's somebody else with webbed feet. Mine look pretty much the same.

 

[BRD@66]

Do you have to fight the urge to quack?

 

[grasshopperglock]

I can swim like a fish. I've swam since I was a tiny child. I love to skin dive but have scuba dived. Last scuba dive was Travis lake. I've spent more time under Belton lake then on top.

No quacking...Lolololol

 

[easy rider]

Had a crush on a girl when I was a teen that had webbed toes like that, but it wasn't the toes that attracted me.

 

[single stack]

San Patricio county is obviously named for
Saint Patrick.
Not so obviously, it is so named due to the desire of the Mexican Government to offer land grants in Texas to attract Irish immigrants. In the preamble of the grant the immigrants were to swear allegiance to Mexico.
It is similar to language used in the grants to Travis.

 

[Southpaw]

Had a crush on a girl when I was a teen that had webbed toes like that, but it wasn't the toes that attracted me.

Sure, but talking her into that tattoo was mean!!!