And you've just made it worse by going even further away from the pun.
I don't know any termites that can drill through carbon composites to
get to the delicious balsa wood inside. Oh, wait! Maybe Formosan
termites can.
Chuck (no puns allowed) Norcutt
On 9/12/2011 12:29 AM, Moose wrote:
> On 9/10/2011 4:44 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> But Morgans do have wooden frame rails and might be subject to attack by
>> wood eating organisms.
>
> So do much more recent Corvettes, 1997 to present I believe.
>
> "The C5 Corvette's floor is constructed using two layers of an aircraft type
> composite material wrapped around a balsa
> wood core. The balsa wood helps filter out noise and vibration, and makes the
> floor 10 times stiffer than the use of
> composites alone. Numerous "high tech" synthetic fillers were tried, but none
> matched the stiffness, light weight and
> damping performance of natural balsa wood. "
>
> But what's the point if they aren't "Bug"attis? My punny post was in response
> to a pic of old Bugattis.
>
> I don't give a hang about car frames, only the pun. And you literalists have
> ruined it, 'cause any pun you have to
> explain is dead. ;-)
>
> Moose
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