"Jack, actually, you did post to the group."

I did? Sheesh -- I'm becoming more incompetent by the day.

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Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 01/25/2013 12:37 PM, mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
> Jack, actually, you did post to the group.  Your description of the thermostat being able to modulate, and open just the right amount?  Whenever I've tested one in a pot of water on a stove, it opened fully as the water heated, but as it cooled, it closed slowly, as if it might be doing as you suggested.  Maybe I got it too hot too fast for that phenomenon to fully reveal itself on the way up, but the cool down was more gradual.
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> But, I have had the experience of very low temperatures and high speeds keeping the temperature down on more than one vehicle.  My father's '53 Chevy had to have a wind block whenever the temperature was below about 10 F.  My camper benefits if the temperature is around 0 F or colder, when driven at highway speed but is ok without it at town speeds.  I don't think automotive thermostat technology has changed much if at all since the fifties.
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> Just my 2 cents, and probably worth what you paid me.
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> mcneely
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> ---- Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> Hi Scott -- before I pester the group with a question that might be
>> common knowlege, I figure I could pester you with it first?
>>
>> People write about putting cardboard in front of the radiator. I think,
>> "I don't get it. The thermostat isn't an on-off switch, doesn't it open
>> just as much as needed to keep the coolant at the right temperature? If
>> the coolant coming back from the radiator is darn cold, won't the
>> thermostat just crack open a bit?"
>>
>> Or maybe it does a poor job regulating temperature when it has to do
>> that "crack open a little bit" thing.
>>
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>> Bend, Ore.
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> David McNeely
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