Comments by "ron black" (@ronblack7870) on "Primal Space" channel.

  1. if your job is that important check your email on weekends
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  2. if the tip was i contact with the shirt the capillary action pulled the ink onto the shirt .
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  3. perhaps another problem was with only 1 rail the load capacity was half of what 2 rails would provide. so for freight that was a problem. also when going around curves would the wheel lose capacity due to now rolling at an angle unless the rail was angled
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  4. i remember the bic commercials with the bic challenge. one was bruce jenner with a bic pen in the tip of his javelin throwing it like in the olympics. he throws it, it lands point in the dirt , they pull the pen out and start writing with it on paper. shows how it can take a beating and keeps working. there were other commercials as well. that's when it really took off in my memory . in the 70's or late 60's i think.
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  5. so there was a lag of up to 1 minute for the furthest clocks but that is still very precise being within 1 minute of the master. i would like more engineering details like what pressure the system ran at and what supplied the compressed air . also the bellows would inflate then deflate . how is the deflation accomplished? where does the air go to deflate the bellows. plus having a compressed are system of so many kilometers without leaks ( or were there) is an accomplishment in itself. did they use british pipe thread or some other system to join the pipes?
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  6. so when the train was stopped the gyros would need to keep spinning so could never stop the engine. i guess some kind of arms to the ground that could be set like a parking brake would solve that.
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