Re: gEDA-user: [OFF] high current amplifier

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 23 May 2009, Joerg wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 22 May 2009, Joerg wrote:
>>> I'll second that. Did it in Spain but the track owner from whom I also
>>> rented the go-kart didn't want me on there anymore after my power-slides
>>> blew out the 2nd tire (including some smoke plumes). They must be rather
>>> expensive.
>>
>> 40 years ago, those slicks were about a $30 bill ea.  So today, probably
>> $75, 90 maybe?  I haven't kept up.  Shame on me.  But I never blew one. 
>> My only failures were related to spinning the wheel in them, peeling the
>> valve core out of the innertube.
>
>I don't know much about tires but what happened was that while the
>surface seemed to smoke the blow-outs happened on the sides of the
>tires. Both times it was the right rear. And in Spain $30 back then was
>a whole lotta dough.

Probably was.  ISTR I was making about $90/week back then.  So I made those 2 
tires run for 3 seasons worth of some dirt, some blacktop racing, never for 
more than a case of pop to the winners.  But it was the ultimate fun for me at 
the time.

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