In a message dated 1/23/2003 11:11:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:

> Hmmm, interesting...I'd like to believe in it, but I'm an agnostic.  Any
> rich owners out there (Larry? <g>) want to buy us all new heater
> installations and seal up half of them?  In another ten years we'd know for
> sure, and in the meantime we'd all have new heaters... 

       I'm not that sure it helps either it just makes sense to have the end 
of that bearing covered rather than open to the incoming dirty air.

Cheers��

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