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To: marcos who wrote (567)	9/5/2002 3:52:50 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 1293

The fact that no son of the lower mainland has made a diesel-electric, lithium-carbide, sitka-spruce, molded-plywood, kevlar-tired dragster for town and country, simply points to the unimaginable sloth and perversely absent imaginative function of the west coast personality. That and their perpetual in_between_work poverty. I don't think anyone has made so much as a diesel-electric go-kart in that neck of the woods in the past 40 years. It's just sad. If they can't buy it at Sears, it just doesn't have a use for mankind. Toronto is getting like that too. In fact Canada has always been like that. They can't make anything and by the time you get through with patent lawyers, product designs, environmental reports, ergonomic aspects, pospectuses, business plans, suitable directors, and chains to distribute, you are well broke and somebody you talked to is making the thing in Brazil with a slightly different name. If our ancestors had to jump through those hoops all the time, we would be speaking Merikan, buying our softwood lumber off them and complaining that the price was too high and the duty too low. BTW, did you know that the trailer rig for hauling logs, made of an extendable centre beam, and cross-sectional side rails and posts, was invented by a guy from Ontario? Thass right, companies did not make trailers for hauling tree-length logs in the old days, so an enterprising logger had to make up his own. And Lo, the logging truck, which had full length trees as a beam structural component of the trailer and no deck, was born. There never has been duty on mining equipment or mineral concentrates going either way across the border, since long before free trade. (As well, duty on software and compurers has always been minimal.) Wagner and Jarco fought it out on equal terms for many a year. Finally Jarco succumbed and the US company won. As far as I know we do not make scoops or trucks north of 49. Just about all of the mining service companies making pumps, screens, drill etc.. have left the left coast. Oddly, Knelson and Falcon in Burnaby (?) are still thriving, with gold concentrator as their business. Go figure. EC<:-}

To: marcos who wrote (567)	9/5/2002 5:13:29 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 1293

Here is a business idea for you. Remember the minutemaid missile system of the cold war? Well they are no longer using the silos, and they are for rent. They have computer systems, housing, good foundations, generators, control systems, cabling and are located in flat plain, high wind areas. Pop up electric softwood windmills. That's right, instead of missiles you put a rotor on a retractable BC fir shaft. When there is enough wind and not too much you simply extract the rotor, and generate. Not enough or too much, retract. Lots of land, so you can generate sun power too. You could have dual duty parabolic sun concentrator steam electric generator and wind thingie on the same shaft. I want 10%. EC<:-}

To: marcos who wrote (567)	9/5/2002 5:44:47 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 1293

BTW I came up with two ideas for mechanical inventions and one of them I took to that asshole Byron Knelson who stole the rotary centrifugal gold concentrator from the Russians. Natch Knelson turned me down as all he wanted to do was look at the design. He could not interpret it so he did not make it, thank god. No one has yet made a good centrifugal grinder due to the problem with oil going to all one side of the main bearing and the thing rattling apart from hi g forces. The same thing defeated Hiller from making a turbine at blade end helicopter for the US army in the 60's. I figured out a way around that but I could not get the prototype built. Patents are useless because you have to get it searched in 5 countries and defend it so that runs to 100K right away before you even prove it works. The other idea I actually got prototyped and I call it the black racer. Basically I added a biased twerblediddle to an undercurrent rocker and lo! the gold ALL reported to one spot. You could not predict this by quantum physics. You know how hard gold is to get from black sand? Well I looked in the bed of this machine after operating for one hour on a fine gold claim, and the bed was ALL gold. No pyrite and no black sand. And NO gold anywhere else! No removal of any product or cleaning necessary! It all fell in one place. Zip. And no particle of gold was larger than say 100 microns! I could not explain this to save my life. It has something to do with beds and something to do with suction and angles, materials, etc.. but is black magic, as I have never seen a gravity device ever get such fine, fine gold completely separated and exclusively. I showed the effect to a prospector who had worked gold for 30 years, and his eyes popped out of his head. He told me to never ever show the device to anyone. I had built the thing almost by accident trying this and that and not thinking it would necesarily work or do anything at all. As a matter of fact, I do not know why I added the main feature that allowed it to concentrate the gold. I never thought about it at all. Just put it in carefully and completely without thinking about its effect, as if I was on autopilot. Yet the feature took a lot labour and special devices. It makes things like the Garret Gravity trap, and gold wheels look like kid's toys. Funny thing is, I have never thought much of the thing, and never tried to duplicate use or sell it in the past 15 years! Go figure. EC<:-]