Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:06:50 -0400, Jude Douglas
wrote:


Thanks for the information. By the way what is RTV?


Sorry - force of habit. It's a high temp version of silicone seal. I
use RTV as a generic term.

Use silicone seal - a good grade should do it.

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717

I didn't know what it meant either, although I've heard and been saying
"Silicon RTV" for years. So, off to Google land I went and learned:

RTV means Room Temperature Vulcanization. Any of Dow's Silicon goop
that cures at room temp is called RTV.

Eisboch

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:38:21 -0400, Eisboch
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:06:50 -0400, Jude Douglas
wrote:


Thanks for the information. By the way what is RTV?


Sorry - force of habit. It's a high temp version of silicone seal. I
use RTV as a generic term.

Use silicone seal - a good grade should do it.

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717

I didn't know what it meant either, although I've heard and been saying
"Silicon RTV" for years. So, off to Google land I went and learned:

RTV means Room Temperature Vulcanization. Any of Dow's Silicon goop
that cures at room temp is called RTV.

I know the aircraft industry goes through cases of the stuff - it's
very handy in aircraft engine cowlings and what not.

I jsut figured it was high temp stuff - didn't know about the Room
Temp thingy.

Kewl.

Later,

Tom

"Beware the one legged man in a butt
kicking contest - he is there for a
reason."

Wun Hung Lo - date unknown

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:38:21 -0400, Eisboch
wrote:


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:06:50 -0400, Jude Douglas
wrote:



Thanks for the information. By the way what is RTV?


Sorry - force of habit. It's a high temp version of silicone seal. I
use RTV as a generic term.

Use silicone seal - a good grade should do it.

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717

I didn't know what it meant either, although I've heard and been saying
"Silicon RTV" for years. So, off to Google land I went and learned:

RTV means Room Temperature Vulcanization. Any of Dow's Silicon goop
that cures at room temp is called RTV.


I know the aircraft industry goes through cases of the stuff - it's
very handy in aircraft engine cowlings and what not.

I jsut figured it was high temp stuff - didn't know about the Room
Temp thingy.

Kewl.

Later,

Tom

"Beware the one legged man in a butt
kicking contest - he is there for a
reason."

Wun Hung Lo - date unknown

What the heck is the acronym kewl?

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:49:16 -0400, krj
wrote:

~~ snippage ~~

What the heck is the acronym kewl?

Short version:

William Gibson - The Father of Cyperpunk, started using misspellings
of similar sounding letter/word combinations. Such as kewl for cool,
Dewd for dude, etc. With the advent of "chat" rooms and IRC, it
became very common for these type of words to develop and appear.

Michael Stackpole also used similar word shadings in the "Shadow Run"
series and it caught on among the mIRC types.

One can trace these things back as far as the original railroad
telegraphers who used "shorts" to convey meanings using different
words - for instance the letter four for for combination. In Morse
(also American Telegraphy code) four appears as four dots and a dash
and the word for is .-./---/..-/.-. so if it were a text message, the
word for would be represented as ...-.

Aren't you glad you asked? :)

All the best,

Tom
--------------

"What the hell's the deal with this newsgroup...
is there a computer terminal in the day room of
some looney bin somewhere?"

Bilgeman - circa 2004

Also Sprach krj :

What the heck is the acronym kewl?

K-rad l33t h@x0r spe4kz, n00b.

http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=9

Dan

--
Look, I don't know how they do things on your home planet,
spaceman... but here in Mayberry, we just don't talk to gun-toting
redneck amphetamine freaks that way!

-- Milkman Dan, Redmeat #364

Marshall Banana wrote:
Also Sprach krj :


What the heck is the acronym kewl?


K-rad l33t h@x0r spe4kz, n00b.

http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=9

Dan



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