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[chaos4NH]

Thanks Sam. I think I'm probably ok, but might bring some materials to improvise with, just in case

Good idea! We have some "experts" in that field. Basically, a turn down extension, or if you are really technical, lots of steel wool and bailing wire

I'm not volunteering to be the forum grammar police, but Sam, you just did one of my favorites It's "baling" wire, not "bailing" wire. Baling wire (also known as "farm wire") is used to tie up hay bales - get it? Wire is actually not very good for "bailing" unless woven into a very tight bucket, or the liquid to be bailed is extremely viscous.

GROAN!

[Shawn624]

I don't know what you farmers are using, but true performanc enthusiasts use bailing wire to tie steel wool in the exhaust. Not that I have anything against forum police.

[nateh]

The derivation of the term "bailing wire" clearly references the necessity to have it available for ready use in the case of an automotive acoustic (or other, eschatologically indeterminate) emergency, drawing a clear nautical analogy, in the usual elegant manner characteristic of informal English prose techniques.

Baling, i.e., the formation of combustible (sometimes spontaneously) cellulosic storage units, is blatantly contrary to the safety and intent of modern standards, and is out of place at any accredited North American competitive venue. Hence, any references to agriculture implementations are strictly apocryphal and should be discouraged in any discourse on the teleology or ephemera of automotive competition.

In short, hay is for horses - not horsepower.

[chaos4NH]

Thank you Nate! I knew in the back of my mind there was some such explanation for my use of the term bailing wire. I think it was used to lower the bailing can into the hold of the ship and then raise it back out to dump the water overboard. Although I think the correct term would have been bailing vessel, not can.The acoustic connection is made because the way the sailors knew they had a full bailing vessel was to twang the bailing wire, and when obtaining a low C note, they knew the vessel was full. Some times the note varied to a high squeal, depending on how many bilge rats were also in the vessel, then the crew knew they needed more stuffing in the cracks to keep the noise down. So, your explanation definitely seems correct! Right Shawn?

[cuda6666]

I like that, Sam. And I always had Nate figured for a closet sesquipedalianist

[nateh]

Thanks for giving me my word of the day, Frank!

[Shawn624]

The derivation of the term "bailing wire" clearly references the necessity to have it available for ready use in the case of an automotive acoustic (or other, eschatologically indeterminate) emergency, drawing a clear nautical analogy, in the usual elegant manner characteristic of informal English prose techniques.

Baling, i.e., the formation of combustible (sometimes spontaneously) cellulosic storage units, is blatantly contrary to the safety and intent of modern standards, and is out of place at any accredited North American competitive venue. Hence, any references to agriculture implementations are strictly apocryphal and should be discouraged in any discourse on the teleology or ephemera of automotive competition.

In short, hay is for horses - not horsepower.

Yes. That's what I meant to say. Thanks for clearing that up Nate.

[TroyV]

Any word on the course walk Sam?

[chaos4NH]

Not since my request late last week (or maybe Saturday). I will repeat the request if I don't hear by Wednesday.

[chaos4NH]

Course walk is a go! 500 - 700 PM Sunday. I'll pass though cause it will be warm Heineken time!

[TroyV]

Excellent..

[nateh]

I've found 2 distinctly different turn number schemes for the Full Course on the Internet. But I couldn't find an official version on Monticello's web site.

In scheme A, turn 1 is the sharp left before the Hammerhead, and turn 20 is the left-hander leading onto the Pit (or Clubhouse?) Straight.

In scheme B, the High Point J is turn 1, and the Uphill Hook is turn 21.

Which one will we use?

[chaos4NH]

I've found 2 distinctly different turn number schemes for the Full Course on the Internet. But I couldn't find an official version on Monticello's web site.

In scheme A, turn 1 is the sharp left before the Hammerhead, and turn 20 is the left-hander leading onto the Pit (or Clubhouse?) Straight.

In scheme B, the High Point J is turn 1, and the Uphill Hook is turn 20.

Which one will we use?

Which one do you like best?

[nateh]

They're both absolutely lovely, smart, and full of unfulfilled potential.

[boltonite]

unofficially, I believe this is where we will be paddocked and pitting in/out.