On 3/17/07, Pensioner <al_knoll@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> Odd bit that.  Ice displaces it's weight in water.  If you have a gallon
> bucket and a quart of ice and you make a mark on the bucket where the top
> of
> the water is before putting the ice in the water.  Be sure to make the
> mark
> on the bucket, not on the water or the eis.  Now put the quart of ice in
> the
> water and mark again how high the water is (on the bucket).  You will note
> that it rose about that amount that is close to 0.9 quarts.  Or roughly
> 22%.
> If you do the same with a quart of lead the water will rise fully one
> quarts
> worth.  Or if you add a quart of liquid ice it will rise one quarts worth.
>
> Now here is the test.  If you venture out upon a still lake with a vanagon
> transmission in your boat and mark where the water is on the side of the
> boat.  Then put the transmission into the lake.  which way does the water
> go
> on the side of the boat, up or down or does it stay the same?  And by
> approximately how much?
>
> Eureka!
>

Penisioner,

If you were fully afloat on the Dead Sea, then I hand you a Syncro
transmission, I'll bet the level of the Dead Sea will will go up. If you the
axle greases cause your hands to slip and drop the tranny, you would bob up
and the level of the Dead Sea would go down ever so slightly.

Same concept as the steel railroad spike in an ice cube. Melt the cube,
"clunk" goes the spike to he bottom and water level goes down. Steel (and
Syncro transmissions) are denser than the water it is displacing.

No, I didn't say you were dense, Nip On Denso.

BenT

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BenT