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- 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
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- In article <10310@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM> tjgerman@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Trevor German) writes:
- >
- > 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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