Hey- Your Call!!!! it may be hard to mount in the area I think you mean - but you could try! a weather vane would just indicate the direction you need to move away FROM!
Judy
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Tony Henwood wrote:
> I know someone who seems to have lots of wind.
> Can I attach one of these "horizontally fixed pitot tubes" to him or would a "vane" do the job?
> Seems like a job for a proctologist!
>
> Or should I just put him in the fume hood!
>
> I don't know whether I should post this - ah what the heck!!
>
> Regards
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> Tony Henwood JP, MSc, BAppSc, GradDipSysAnalys, CT(ASC)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: histonet-bounces@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Judith L. Williams
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2008 7:41 AM
> To: Rene J Buesa
> Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; Breeden, Sara
> Subject: Re: [Histonet] OT: Tuesday Tasty Tidbit
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> Tell the person interested in wind speed that they will need a horizontally fixed pitot tube - as in the kind affixed to the wings of airplanes to measure wind speed! that should get them going!!!! you can find out about pitot tubes in Google website- NASA has a good description with diagrams should they want them (haha!) still chuckling over this one, Judy in Washington
>
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> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Rene J Buesa wrote:
>
>> Sara:
>> There is nothing to flame about. It is just a misunderstanding, what
>> you HAVE to measure is the wind FLOW in your fume hoods. There are
>> small vanes that you place at the entrance, where the air flows the
>> most, and one a week (or a day if you wish) you check the vane to
>> determine if the air is flowing and at what RATE (or speed if you
>> will). I have a vane in each of my 4 fumes hoods, and had a log for
>> that determination. René J.
>>
>> "Breeden, Sara" wrote:
>> Okay, so it's not the Friday Hour of Fuming but this will do.
>> Without giving away my source, my boss received an email this morning
>> asking,"Does anyone monitor wind speed in their histo labs?". My boss
>> replied that we don't because our lab is INDOORS. This has been a
>> source of great amusement all morning - I know what the person is
>> asking, but it just struck me as funny! Adios
>>
>>
>>
>> Sally Breeden, HT(ASCP)
>>
>> NM Dept. of Agriculture
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