Re: Thoriited Tungsten Rods response to spelling errors

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Original poster: "Kurt Schraner" <k.schraner@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Moderator note:  OK, I will end the spelling portion of the thread 
beginning tomorrow.  It sounds like anything that could be said on 
the subject has been said anyway.

Lets start focusing on content :-)))




Hi Al and James, Matt D., List,

thank you very much for your comments. But I didn't mean to start a 
totally OT thread about spelling and language. Gerry certainly need 
to stop this acitvity soon. I'm myself really restricted to a reduced 
set of english language for "technical subjects", in contrast to the 
full set of literature, which is probably available to many of you.

I have a list of talented friends, who are really bright,in technical 
(electronic, computer- etc.) matters,  but not beeing able to write 
down a sentence, without at least about 3 errors. And I most like 
similar, nonihibited contributions to the list. And my wifie, who is 
an African, never sent to school, is not yet able to write an easy 
readble text, despite her beeing a really intelligent person.

Sooo..., I don't see any problem to enjoy, accept and tolerate, 
languagewise "primitive" postings, 'cause I'm more interested in the content.

For foreign language members, sometimes, it may also be a problem to 
identify specific "Americanism" slang. Sometimes an online dictionary 
helps. And unexplained abbreviations like i.e. VSVFSQ (which, I 
agree, was expalined at it's first appearance), don't continue to 
make live easier for us international members.

I'm aware Matt Deming brought up this subject long before (thank you 
Matt!). But he had no big list echo IMHO.

BTW: I'm using thoriated tungsten only for small gaps, and have no 
systematic investigation on them, relative to pure tungsten. But I'm 
using pure 10mm dia. tungsten on my big coil B&W's SRSG (Sync. Rotary 
spark Gap), and after 1 or 2 minutes of operation I can touch it just 
by my hand, and it feels about 60 to 80C. Think there is a really 
different loss, when using asynchrous rotatries (ASRSG's).

Best Regards

Kurt