One thing I learned is that ez out are not a good bolt extractor, especially for dealing with soft bolts (like brass) their “thread” tends to dig in, forcing the extractor into the broken thread, and spreading the broken bolt, wedging it ever harder into the surrounding metal.

The 2.0 spewing would have been fine, but cheating the tests is not.

As those ass hats no doubt know, the problem wasn’t so much their emission levels, but rather that they cheated their way thru the tests.

I prefer to relate torque to the experience of having to pee really bad when you have morning wood.

That’s silly. Steve Morris Engines hasn’t done anything, their engineers did, they just signed the check. No, their engineers didn’t do anything, the technicians assembly the engines built it, the engineers just made models. No, the technicians haven’t done anything, its the machinists that made the parts, the…

I’m reminded of the feeling I had when, as a wee lad, I procured my first titty mag, and stared confusingly at one of the pictures going “Those two things don’t go together”

Do what you want, its your money.

To you or I, that would be lost time. To Doug, its another column.

The risk scales up with the voltage. The higher the voltage, the more demands we place on insulators. Insulators break down over time, in ways that are not always obvious.

One thing for sure, it must really suck to be the iraqi government.

The current thru your body, sure. Which is determined by a combination of your bodies resistance and the voltage of the power supply, as long as the power supply can sustain the current, which a car charger certainly can.

You’re right in that the system can certainly be designed in a way that it wont electrocute anyone unless its damaged. However, your description of the required damage is a tad off. At high voltages you don’t need to lick the contacts, you don’t even need to touch them, just getting close is enough. The insulator…

Yes, the internal resistance of the power supply. The high voltage is only there as long as the terminals are open. You haven’t actually experienced it.

Tube TV’s have killed people in spectacular fassion who went messing with them without first discharging the capacitors.

Electric fences, and other low current high voltage capacitors can only produce that high voltage across an open gap. As soon as the ciruit closes, their internal resistance needs to be considered, and the output across the terminals drops way down.

Wasnt there some relationship between voltage and current they teach in laser engineering school. Some ohm guy had something to do with it.

Exactly. The only way high voltage doesn’t lead to high current is if the supply is unable to deliver it, in which case the voltage actually drops.

I was wondering who would get that reference. The internet never dissapoints.

A car charger is a high current source. It has to be.

Hey, no matter what the propulsion method, it take a great deal of power to accelerate a 3,000lbs car to highway speeds and keep it going to its destination, and no matter how you store that power, there is a danger that it will be released in an unintended way.