[demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] >Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:01:17 -0400 >From: "Michael Daly" <michaeldaly_at_home.com> >Yet Ballard & friends are claiming that they'll (fuel cells) be commercial and twice as >efficient as today in two or three years. They said that about electric cars too... I'm of the mind that if you don't have a solid, practical, production vehicle I'm skeptical. >My Civic has a strip of plastic in the almost-a-rain-gutter where the foot >of the rack mount sits. Perhaps this is generating more friction than >yours. I thought the Integra had a similar roof design though. It does but the foot of the rack does not sit in that pseudo rain gutter. Per the directions the feet spacing places the foot on the metal roof (between the edge and that rain gutter). That places a smooth plastic pad on smooth curved metal. Slides real easy. >If the clips are sliding on the extender bar, perhaps you could squeeze >a piece of rubber (bicycle tire piece?) into the gap and get some friction >in there. Or sandpaper. Not the clips sliding. I'm talking about the sliding portion of the extender bar. The square bar within a U shaped bar. The extender just flat extends an extra inch or two over long trips. This pushes the back bar back (or really the back bar slides back pulling the extender bar apart farther). Where the extender bar mounts to the car stays stationary. Where the Q tower attaches to the extender bar doesn't move. A picture... http://www.yakima.com/products/dynamic/8000120_7.html That inner rod just right of the Q tower holding the extender bar can slide farther out. There is no way to lock that inner bar into place as delivered from Yakima. Jamming something in there may work but then you could end up with something becoming permantly jammed in there. I've found that a strap from the front bar to the rear bar on either side of the rack just inside the Q towers works well. >Canada has only nine >years of oil left; the US (I forget) 12-15(?). The catch here is that is the reserves we know of and can currently reach. Exploration is becoming more advanced and better along with the ability to drill where in the past we physically couldn't. I don't believe that oil is an endless resource but neither do I buy into the scare tactics of all of the oil being consumed in a very short time in the future. >Remember that epoxy and resin costs soared in the '70s, causing >some problems for boat builders. That stuff comes from oil! Well considering that I wasn't old enough to paddle in the 70's (yes, I'm one of those freaky younger paddlers that are rare on this list) I'll take your word for it. :) Mel "When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl." *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 11 2000 - 15:29:22 PDT
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