Re: Inflation

on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:41:28PM -0700, mmotyka@lsil.com (mmotyka@lsil.com) wrote:

Greg Broiles wrote :

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At 03:13 PM 10/19/2001 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:

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/me retreats to iron w/ thermometer.

Black and Decker "Light 'n' Easy" iron, cotton dishtowl (folded quarto), "Good Cook" dial thermometer inserted under top fold. With four minutes' preheat, temperature is off the scale (2200F), extrapolating, it looks to be 2700-2800F. After about two minutes, there's a slight yellowing of the dishtowel.

Is it possible you're off by a factor of 10 here? I am very skeptical that you have an iron which heats up to 2200 or 2700 degrees Fahrenheit. I would expect a little more than a slight yellowing of the dish towel at those temperatures, unless you have asbestos dish towels you use along with your superheated iron.

-- Greg Broiles gbroiles@well.com "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

Kind of like using one of those ugly red lab hot air guns to dry your hair, eh?

Definitely an honest mistake.

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