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Re: driving questions

To: "mgs@autox.team.net" <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: driving questions
From: Chris Chandler <spawn@net-link.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:15:31 -0500
DANMAS@aol.com wrote:
> Chris:
> 
> You may be right - it's been many years since I had a materials class, and I
> didn't pay a whole lot of attention then - but I have always thought about it
> a litttle differently.

        Well, it was more than a few years ago that I had the class, so I may
have gotten it mixed up...

> maybe I will go bore a hole in a piece of metal, toss it in the freezer, and
> see if the fit to a bolt which has been kept at room temperature is looser or
> tighter (hopefully, someone else will beat me to it and report back to the
> group so I won't have to!).

        Let me know the results!  You've got me wondering now too.  Of course,
there's also the (possible) material differences between pistons and
rings and blocks to consider also.

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