Question about "float" position

MossRoad · Jan 22, 2007

KentT said:
Dunno, JJ, it must be Phlogiston instead of normal air, since it's coming from "nowhere"...

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Oh, my! Now THAT is a theory!

Great reading. When did you first hear of it? Just curious.

MossRoad · Jan 22, 2007

Watch this video of my PT425 mowing. The FEL is in float. Half way through the video, I climb up a small, 12" berm. It isn't real clear, but you can see how no wheels on the mower deck, or the tractor, leave the ground.

KentT · Jan 22, 2007

MossRoad said:
Oh, my! Now THAT is a theory! Great reading. When did you first hear of it? Just curious.

Some chemistry course I had back in the days when that theory was still believed -- or shortly thereafter...

Seriously, I don't remember other than it and the concept of outer space being filled with "ether" were both long-believed but subsequently de-bunked scientific theories...

I just wish I could understand what Steven Hawking or Einstein were saying -- to heck with debunking them...

J_J · Jan 23, 2007

KentT said:
Dunno, JJ, it must be Phlogiston instead of normal air, since it's coming from "nowhere"...

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Sometimes, it is hard to tell if one is being mocked, or supported. My point was, if there is air in the cylinder, you have a problem.

KentT · Jan 23, 2007

J_J said:
Sometimes, it is hard to tell if one is being mocked, or supported. My point was, if there is air in the cylinder, you have a problem.

JJ -- I was supporting you 110%... and jesting about those who keep saying that there's something on the other side of the piston other than fluid...

Except for bubbles caused by shear and cavitation in motors and pumps primarily, (and a bad thing, and something to be minimized and dealt with), the circuits should have nothing but fluid in them...