<VV> In re.CorV8

[Hugo Miller]

That is my objection to those little square Chinese pumps - that they 
KEEP running all the time, in typically busy Chinese fashion. The 
refined, gentlemanly, SU pump, by contrast, just gives an occasional 
'tick' to acknowledge our concerns for its well-being. It's all about 
class and breeding, dontcha know.
And it is many years indeed since I had to do anything as brutal as hit 
one with a monkey wrench or anything else for that matter. A gentle 
massage of the contact points is all that is required. Civilised 
motoring!

On 2020-03-16 08:51, Jim Becker wrote:
> Only because I couldn't work a Lucas refrigerator joke into a Saturn
> 5 comment.
>
> My preference is a fuel pump that keeps running without the periodic
> monkey wrench in the works.
>
> Jim Becker
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs
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> Subject: Re:  In re.CorV8
>
> You've really got it on for SU fuel pumps, haven't you? ;) I still 
> say
> it's better to have a fuel pump that responds to a tap with a monkey
> wrench when it dies, rather than one that stays dead!
> Maybe not in a Saturn V though. Which, incidentally, was just an
> up-rated Nazi V2 rocket. There would have been a Swastika on the Moon
> long before 1969 if we hadn't upset their plans ;)
>
> On 2020-03-15 21:32, Jim Becker via VirtualVairs wrote:
>> Can you imagine a Saturn 5 that you have to get out every so often
>> and whack the fuel pump with a monkey wrench?
>>
>> Jim Becker
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: David Neale via VirtualVairs
>> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2020 8:22 PM
>> To: virtualvairs
>> Subject:  In re.CorV8
>>
>> Hugo, you are quite correct. There are many supremely talented
>> engineers in the USA,  capable of producing everything from 
>> exquisite
>> motor cars to horrendously complex and reliable Saturn 5 launchers,
>> and much more. However, to suggest that there are no engineers in
>> Britain with equivalent skills is absurd and patently untrue.
>>
>> David B. Neale
>>
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