<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Richard Niederberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ladesigners@gmail.com" target="_blank">ladesigners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Why can't a few dozen 100ton hydraulic rams work, with fast-acting battery-driven electric valves that open/close in nanoseconds? [Think of the fast-acting valves for the fountains in front of the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas]</div><div>/s/ Richard</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They probably would work great, except these two electric motion bases are completed, and where already halfway built when I was brought onto the project. At which point I opened my big mouth and asked "but how do they handle the questionable power in Brazil?"</div><div><br></div><div>And he who asks, gets to figure it out.</div><div><br></div><div>If this first project works out, it's supposedly going to be repeated in nine more locations. We'll be applying the lessons learned here.... </div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div>
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