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Originally Posted by JRMichler
+1 to wmjinman's comments.
He said what I wanted to say, but he used better words.
And + another one to stovie. He's actually trying something and telling us what he's doing.
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It wasn't easy - spent more than an hour editing trying to make it more concise and trying to not be too much of a "flamer" myself.
Dittos regarding stovie - I admire the experimenting and frank reporting of the results. If he makes a breakthrough, awesome. If not, he at least got a lot of real-world, hands-on experience with it that will undoubtedly serve him (and maybe us) in the future. Thinking about the aluminum plates getting eaten - - - maybe the thing could be designed so they're really easy to make & replace, and then it could be considered a "consumable" - - ???
Oh, and like the past president of the Reaction Research Society once told me when I was bummed-out at my "failure" to launch my steam rocket the first time I tried it - "Try not to look at these things as failures or successes, but as RESULTS - data. We learn from results, whether they're what we were hoping for or not."