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Article #15810Re: FLYWHEELS
From: Mr M J Brown
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:42
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:42
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In article <10310@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM> tjgerman@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Trevor German) writes:
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> I have been following the thread about exploding flywheels and
> would like to make the following contributions.
>
> 1. Yes, when a fly wheel lets go or is suddenly stopped for some
> reason, a hell of a lot of energy is available in a very short
> period of time. Unimpeded, these flywheel bits can do a lot
> of harm. Testiment to that is a machine shop in the steel works
> in Hamilton Ontario where a grinding disk exploded killing one
> guy and leaving a neet line of holes in the walls and roof.
Show of hands....who's heard the one about the hard disk (I mean the
*ORIGINAL 5 foot diameter) platter escaping!! Nasty, specially at that sort
of speed!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!warwick!not-for-mail From: cstadbg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M J Brown) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: FLYWHEELS Date: 18 Dec 1992 13:42:59 -0000 Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK Lines: 24 Message-ID: <1gskh3INNsvu@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk> References: <10310@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk