Nahh, you just caught me on a good day....
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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From: Ed Van Scoy [mailto:ed@vetteracing.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:32 PM
To: drmayf@mayfco.com; neil@dbelltech.com
Cc: 'LSR'
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Sorta On Topic...Leaf Blower...
Hard to get one by Neil ;-)
Ed
>-----Original Message-----
>From: drmayf [mailto:drmayf@mayfco.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 06:36 PM
>To: neil@dbelltech.com
>Cc: ''LSR''
>Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Sorta On Topic...Leaf Blower...
>
>yup, screwed up. I had square inches and then divided that by cubic
>inches instead of sq inches per sq ft
>
>should have been 18920 (ft/min) * 2.41 (sq inches) / 144 (sq
>inches/sq ft) only a factor of 12 off. Heck that was good enough for
>the space station, lol...
>
>so the real cfm is about 316 cfm much better. And I could use 2 of
>them in parallel to get > than 500 cfm.
>
>good catch...
>
>mayf
>neil@dbelltech.com wrote:
>
>>Mayf;
>>
>>Weren't your units in feet one place and inches in another? Maybe I missed
>>the ft/in conversion?
>>
>>Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: land-speed-bounces+neil=dbelltech.com@autox.team.net
>>[mailto:land-speed-bounces+neil=dbelltech.com@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
>>drmayf
>>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:08 PM
>>To: Ed Weldon
>>Cc: LSR
>>Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Sorta On Topic...Leaf Blower...
>>
>>Ed, as I mentioned before, thanks for th einfo. It looks like a leaf
>>blower wont hack it...but lemme check the numbers here...
>>
>>215 mph = 215 * 88 /60 * 60 ft/min = 18.920 ft/min. If I multiply
>>the cross section in sq ft that would give me cfm...
>>
>>18920 * 2.41 / 1728) = 26.38 cfm...
>>
>>bummer. Somehow or another I had my head up my anal orifice and was
>>thinking it would be much larger than that. So now I gotta look for a
>>bigger "sucker". Maybe that idea about vacuum cleaner motors wasn't
>>such a bad idea after all! Or an old 471 rootes blower hooked to an
>>electric motor... this is getting too complicated, lol..
>>
>>mayf
>>Ed Weldon wrote:
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