Quiz: Your engine is frozen ...

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You did follow that link from this guy in Alaska? Anyway, the answer is 100% Ethylene Glycol ie. no water at all. That will freeze at +8F or -13C which won't bother you in Cornwall much (or me) :) But I never knew that.
 
ah was thinking about how the wurd 'mixture' was used earlier in the fred. as a mixture of water and anti-freeze..
as in 40% mixture i took to mean 40% anti freeze and 60% water..


but if wur gonna change wur defination of coolant mix, grand, but can we have a list of all components, broken down into thur elements, and wiff a % of the total mixture given as a volume and also a mass % of the total mass of the coolant for a given amount. perhaps we coulds use a litre as a given volume or would it be better to use the actual cooling capacity of ???say a gaylander 1.8..

second thoughts not that otherwise we'll be here all day trying to fill it up
 
So in fact... answer b) would be correct for the original question and answer e) for the modified question later on?
 
Love this bit:

Glycols do not have sharp freezing points, and even below the freezing temperatures, a slushy solution exists which will still flow. In the never-never transition zone around -60°F and 60% glycol, the mixture can either crystallize like water (particularly when "seeded" by a crystal and agitated) or set to a glass-like solid with no orderly internal crystalline structure. Either way, the result is the same, and thawing measures including strong language are prescribed.
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Hee hee!
 
reet smartarses see who can search the net the fastest fer the answer to this one..
if a trains wheels are connected by a solid axle, in that if one wheel turns once then so must the other. how do they get around bends??
 
slob said:
reet smartarses see who can search the net the fastest fer the answer to this one..
if a trains wheels are connected by a solid axle, in that if one wheel turns once then so must the other. how do they get around bends??
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The axle bends in the middle :p

No, to be more exact, the axle has a big spring in the middle which winds up, and when you get to the next straight it lets go with a big 'boing' sound. (Rather like a Detroit)
 
I think it means - either the inside or ouside wheel, depending on which has most traction will either spin or drag around part of the corner.

Doesn't sound particularly efficient though.
 
Ok another antifreeze question:

If you have swallowed some antifreeze, what should you drink on the way to the quack?

a) more antifreeze
b) water
c) brake fluid
d) Vodka
e) diesel
f) unleaded petrol
g) leaded petrol
f) battery acid
 
JimAttrill said:
Ok Ok I agree 100% is not a mixture. Mea Culpa etc. Anyway this is a question you can hit idiots with down at the pub :D
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It can be 100% of the recommended mixture, or 500% or 740%, 912% 327%.
the correct answer is actually none of the above, because the mixture is whatever % the last idiot who changed it put in....usually what ever is handy
 
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