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FW: Ice And ABS (NO LBC)

To: "'Spridgets@Autox.team.net'" <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: FW: Ice And ABS (NO LBC)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:38:38 -0700
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hanna, Mark 
> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 9:36 PM
> To:   'ryan marro'
> Subject:      RE: Ice And ABS (NO LBC)
> 
> Sorry Ryan ,
> Sometimes I'm too literal. To tell you the truth I do not watch much TV.
> This is not the first time that I've been duped on this list. A while back
> 
> someone by the name or Richard Head (AKA Dick) asked some silly 
> questions. I answered him honestly. I felt sorry for him. People were 
> making fun of him. After answering him, I deserved to be made fun of.
> There are more than a few people on this list who are not very technical.
> And a few of "us" who are pretty nieve. 
> Please accept my apologies,
>                                             Mark
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ryan marro [SMTP:ryan_marro@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 9:18 PM
> To:   mhanna@ball.com
> Cc:   spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject:      RE: Ice And ABS (NO LBC)
> 
> Mark,
> Haven't you seen the Holiday Inn Express commercials?  They have someone 
> talk about/do something that sounds very educated (like they are a 
> professional in that particular field), and then someone asks, "Are you a 
> doctor/engineer, etc.?"  Of course, the person responds, "No, but I stayed
> 
> in a Holiday Inn Express last night."  Then the announcer says, "Will 
> staying at a Holiday Inn make you smarter? Nah, but you'll feel smarter."
> I 
> am definately not a mechanical engineer.  It was just a joke.
> Ryan
> AN5
> 
> >From: "Hanna, Mark" <mhanna@ball.com>
> >To: 'ryan marro' <ryan_marro@hotmail.com>
> >CC: Spridgets@autox.team.net
> >Subject: RE: Ice And ABS (NO LBC)
> >Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:23:21 -0700
> >
> >Sorry Ryan ,
> >It's the other way around. That is why ABS was invented. Any one can jamb
> 
> >on
> >the brakes and cause the tires to stop rolling. ABS keeps the tires from
> >locking up.
> >Stopping distances are shorter when the tires are spinning not locked up 
> >and
> >skidding.
> >Mark Hanna
> >AN5
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:     ryan marro [SMTP:ryan_marro@hotmail.com]
> > > Sent:     Saturday, November 04, 2000 5:20 PM
> > > Cc:       Spridgets@autox.team.net
> > > Subject:  Re: Ice And ABS (NO LBC)
> > >
> > > Because the coefficeint of rolling friction is less than the
> coefficeint
> > > of
> > > static friction, the ideal situation would be to cause the tires to
> stop
> > > rolling and drag themselves on whatever surface they are on.
> > > _______________
> 
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