Re: [ATM] Aluminium or stainless steel?

["Richard Schwartz" <richas@earthlink.net>]

My mother's next door neighbor, who was a high school class mate of mine, is
a urologist.   He implants hinged rods of steel into a man's gum rubber, and
it does, indeed, become stiffer.   Last job I did for him was a long time
ago: programming a serial port interface for a PTM (penile tumescence
monitor).   You wear this thing on your telescope tube at night when you
sleep, and it measures when the tube is stiff and when it is not.   That is
how they can tell if you really need the steel rod or the v1gra, or if you
really need a session with a Las Vegas or Hollywood "therapist".

No v1agra required, but I wish my retina could be fixed.

. . . Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob May" <bobmay@nethere.com>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Aluminium or stainless steel?


> <<
> Huh?
>
> Suppose the tubing is made of gum rubber.  I stuff it with a
> tight-fitting rod of steel.  Doesn't it become stiffer?
>
> Instead, suppose I plug each end and then fill the tube with something
> under pressure, doesn't it become stiffer also?  (V14gra effect,
> so to speak).
>
> When a piano string is tightened, does it require more force to deflect
it?
>
> Dave
>
> >>
> Lets all be stupid together!
> Bob May
> bobmay@nethere.com
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>
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