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Rosco Bodine
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Hello,
I started up a new cell, connected up supply, pluged in and it let a bang with a flashover between two tracks on the board.
There was no short circuit or anything wrong with my connections to the anode or the bulb. It just simply went west of its own accord.
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That is "went south" .... not west 
Is English a second language for you ?
I keep getting the impression that you get a bit off track
with some sentence structure and interpretation ,
context , ect. which indicates English may not be your
native language .
I'll take a wild guess .....maybe you are Danish or Swedish ?
[Edited on 25-7-2007 by Rosco Bodine]
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That is "went south" .... not west
Is English a second language for you ?
[Edited on 25-7-2007 by Rosco Bodine] |
Well, I'm from the antipodes, I have only ever heard the term "to go west"!
I guess "to go south" is an American term, not used much by the rest of the English speaking world. 
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Rosco Bodine
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http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sou1.htm
It is an association in modern times with graphical figures
where "up" is north and "down" is south ...towards the baseline . The term has been around for maybe forty years .
Another similar one is "four paws skyward" 
or "bought the farm" or "checked out" .
[Edited on 25-7-2007 by Rosco Bodine]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Rosco Bodine
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sou1.htm
It is an association in modern times with graphical figures
where "up" is north and "down" is south ...towards the baseline . The term has been around for maybe forty years . |
I had always assumed it mean't to go west from Europe to America, or from East Coast US to West Coast, or East Coast Australia to Western Australia!
ie. To imply going from somewhere civilised to less civilised (in the old days), or by connection, somewhere (thing) that works to somewhere that
doesn't!
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Rosco Bodine
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typical burgeoise nonsense
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"to go west"
To die, soldiers' euphemism used during WW1.
That must be what..... 90 years 
And thats from an American dictionary!
"to go west"
To die, to disappear, to be lost...
Another dictionary!
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Rosco Bodine
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Well .....if it means to go to the place of the setting sun ,
then what does it mean to go to the place of the rising sun .....
wait don't tell me ......it means to go to .....
Japan ?
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American via English eh!
Hello,
To 'go west' as Xenoid has said is my interpretation. To 'go south' is a distortion. 
Down the Swanie,
Ka-buttsed,
A gonner,
Fucked,
Bucked, similar interpretation as 'gone west'.
American is not my first languge, English is
(let's not menton the spelin).
Moving on to less interesting things, my 'Magnetite with LD tied to it' anode has been running in a KCl cell for about half a day and K Chlorate is
just starting to ppt at the cell bottom. There is some brown crud at the bottom too so I guess there is some erosion somewhere. There is always some
brown crud at cell bottom with LD in my experience.
The Magnetite is make via melting with welder. The bad news is that salts are starting to creep up the the connection at the top and turning the
Copper green. This is a nuisance with any anode.
I am hanging my hopes on the Magneite made from Steel, heat and steam. Hopefully it will not conduct salts.
If the welder manufactured anode had been given more heat to melt it more I suppose there would be no salt conduction but it took quite an amount of
'welding' to get this one to point where I though it was melted enough.
You need a 100% duty cycle welder, at 110 or more amps and in my suituation I had to change the 25 amp fuse to a piece of wire.
Dann2
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Tyburn, west of London, where criminals went to be hanged.
Hence, to "go west" means to die.
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