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- From: roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers)
- Subject: Re: Snow
- Message-ID: <wpprmrk@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 21:40:08 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <9212290204.AA22778@lopez.marquette.MI.US>
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- In article <9212290204.AA22778@lopez.marquette.MI.US> Gary Bourgois <flash@LOPEZ.MARQUETTE.MI.US> writes:
- >
- >I saw a gizmo on Satellite Market USA that intrigued me. It is called
- >"Avalanche", and don't you want to know how it works?
- >
- >your home. See some snow on the dish? Flip on the AVALANCHE, and it SHAKES
- >THE SNOW OFF THE DISH by vibrating. You can adjust it to find a resonant
- >point. Supposedly this does not shake any fittings lose or anything.
-
- I don't think the AVALANCHE is for me. I could shake my solid 10 footer
- until hell freezes over and I wouldn't be able to shake any snow off
- the dish. I find the broom works just fine!
-
- Well, I just thought of a neat dish-cleaning gizmo. You would have a
- rod coming straight out of the center of the dish and connected to
- it is a curved scraper that fits the parabolic shape of the dish. You
- turn on the gizmo and it would sweep around the dish and knock the snow
- off the dish and gravity would drop the snow on the ground. My gizmo
- would be like a wind-shield wiper, but mine would go around instead
- of just back and forth.
-
- I'm not willing to wreck my dish to try it, but I may someday figure
- out a way to try and try to build a prototype.
-
- The inventor...
-
- Robert
- roberts@triton.unm.edu
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