[modeleng] Re: O/T Disposable Propane bottles

Some of the people on this list have seen an early progress report on my
current efforts to build a 1" to the foot model of a Filer and Stowell
oscillating cylinder deck winch as was used on WWII Liberty and Victory
ships.  It is shaping up pretty well at this time and if any one wants to
see how it looks at this more complete stage, feel free to send me an email
asking for photos.  I will be more than happy to send them out. (In fact I
will be overjoyed!)  It is looking pretty nice, it really is, but not as
nice as the Bagge Brewery Tuxford beam engine I made last winter.

One last comment on the current OT subject, and that is that some doctors
wonder if Alzheimer's is not what causes the accumulation of aluminum to
occur instead of the other way around.  I wonder if the military still uses
aluminum cookware like they did when I was in service back in the 1950s?  I
remember those huge cook pots from cleaning them on my few spells on KP!

Too, I wonder if Alzheimer's is not a heiriditary thing.  Old gentleman
across the street from me when I was a lad came down with it before he died
and I heard that his daughter (who he lived with) also had it before she
passed away.  If I were one of the daughter's children, I think I would
worry about getting it in my old age.  A study of a convent of nuns has
shown that tests run when they were young may have indicated the ones who
would "catch" Alzheimer's at a later age.  This would seem to indicate that
aluminum had nothing to do with the problem after all. If the problem could
be detected in a person's 20's, maybe something could be done to prevent it
appearing in old age.  Then again, it would be sort of like knowing when one
was going to kick the bucket, IE: you might not want to know that your
future had Alzheimer's waiting in it unless an early cure was invented.

Jesse in Tennessee

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