Interesting…
Torby posts an observation about how slow Kalmbach’s slow as molasis in january server is and we get a debate over Camber and the who’s Thread got more replies than someone else’s…[:o)][:p]
Ian, I have no idea why my tiny tiny layout’s saga has garnished as much readership as it has, good writing? yeah, right! [:D][;)]
Mayday! Tower Mayday! This topic has been hijacked![:D][;)][:p]
Vic,
Strictly my opinion, but quite often people only reply to threads they can relate to.
Soooooooooooooo camber didn’t tickle too many fancies, perhaps because people didn’t understand the term in the first place (not withstanding the High Priest of GR) or they didn’t perceive it as a problem since they construct their track differently.
BTW the topic hasn’t been hi-jacked, after all you’ll need to super elevate your 'puter just as soon as we get warp speed on the Forum.
Actually, I’m rather surprised that my silly comment thread has lived this long[:D]
Three cheers for thread drift!
Hip, hip, hooray Torby, way to go. [:D][:D][:D]
Tim
Two questions: 1.) Is a “spirit level” so called because it is a sealed glass tube containing alcohol?" 2.) Is camber a slight convex curve of a surface, as of a road or an air foil? The lack of response to some Topics may be a problem with superfluous nomenclature. Or, peri***he thought, the subject of the topic might be viewed as “common knowledge” and unworthy for comment. If the value of a “Topic” is judged only by the volume of responders, there would be little to recommend them. I wonder if Albert Einstein would have taken umbrage to the lack of response to his “Theory of Relativity?”
Ted,
Q#1. I’d take a wild irresponsible guess in the affirmative! I suppose it was later discovered that using a substance such as oil having a heavier viscosity permitted time for more accurate readings, and did not separate into many bubbles as easily!
Q#2. My guess is that camber in the sense that it’s being used here does not apply. I had always assumed it to be more of the automotive sense, or even the highway engineer’s usage. I suspect, considering who brought the subject to attention, that it is used in the implied manner in the nomenclature down under! Understanding what he’s talking about, I can shift gears and carry on with the thought.
We colonials use different terms than those in the home country!!! Our car has a hood, thiers a bonnet; we ride the elevator, they the lift! we use the term superelevation, those on the big island in the Southern Hemisphere evidently speak of camber, and I’d suppose that those in Europe and the home country use an altogether different term to describe the same thing!
Bob, [;)][:o)][:o)]
If that’s the case, do you believe that in GB and Oz the Big Bad Wolf was going to eat Little Red Riding Bonnet???
Just checking.[;)][:o)][}:)][:D]
Thank you Capt Bob, at the risk of being severely reprimanded for straying from the thrust of this Topic (what was it again?), the two definitions I offered were verbatim from “Webster’s New World Dictionary.” Realizing that wars have been caused over a simple misunderstanding of provencial language, it is good practice to keep a dictionary at hand. As to the original Topic, the Forums site has been experiencing “technical difficulties” which I discovered earlier this morning. That could be a reason for sluggish performance. Speaking of “straying from the thrust of this Topic,” it occures to me that popular response to a Topic couldn’t be a farther “stretch” than has occured here. Happy rails to you. Ted
WOW, we go from slow servers to hard porn around here!
Actually, spirit and level shouldn’t be in the same sentence really. I drink spirit, I am not level. In fact if I drink spirit and I am not level then my camber is also off and I feel super elevated - for a while. The world is full of strange things, doctors train for years yet when they qualify they practice. My wife doesn’t speak to me for three days and she thinks I am being punished. People know I have a garden railway and they think I am the strange one. Who’s to say what is right and is there such a thing as a big bad wolf, not if you are another wolf!
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]
Dead on Kim,
I knew if I foundered around long enough I could count on one of you guys from the olde country to set things straight!