Inflation

[Karsten M. Self]

on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:41:28PM -0700, mmotyka at lsil.com (mmotyka at lsil.com)
wrote:
> Greg Broiles <gbroiles at well.com> wrote :
> >At 03:13 PM 10/19/2001 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> >
> >>/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 at 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.

As previously posted, an iso-8859-1 to ASCII encoding error.  The degree
symbol was converted to a zero.  Divide values by 10.

Peace.

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