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Posted by David Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 16:58:11 :
In Reply to: Re: another Power Wagon advantage posted by Glen Id [70.41.247.101] on Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 09:39:49 :
Thanks for the gossip on Bo. I guess the key word in "Almost Heaven" was "Almost". I heard there were some good deals on survival McMansions with all the underground and self-sufficient stuff when his followers moved out. I like that suicide in the shoulder bit. Wasn't he the guy who claimed to have put the "Bo" in "Rambo"? But when he tried to shoot his own self in the head, he missed?
Fuel senders are interesting. I've always thought it should be dangerous to have a coil which could start glowing due to a short upstream, and a wiper arm which could make little sparks as it rubs across the coil, in a tank full of gasoline fumes, but they've been doing it that way for close to 100 years, and I've never heard of one causing an explosion. The key might be that the saturated fuel/air mixture in the tank is too rich to ignite. Besides, if the fuel gauge quit working while you were fleeing from WWIII, so what? It's not like you're going to be able to stop at a gas station, put your credit card in the slot, and fill 'er up.
I'm pretty sure the M-series vehicles were originally designed to meet something like TEMPEST standards, since nuclear war was on everyone's mind back then. The metal body actually would provide adequate EMP shielding for a basic non-transistorized automotive electrical system. The metal body shields pretty well against electrical fields and the wires are too short to pick up much from magnetic fields, while the gamma rays and neutrons only affect semiconductors. Remember, even the radios back then ran on vacuum tubes, which are immune to radiation.