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Ramos said, breathing hard of the rotten air in his helmet. "Yeah gotta be," Frank answered quickly. "Same as from a thermocouple. Voltage about two hundred. Lots of current, though. Hope these old ionics'll take it." "We can tap off lower, if we have to... Here I'll fix you, first... Grab this end..." They had a sweating two hours of rewiring to get done.
Gradually the atmosphere they breathed was getting worse. But from reports they had read and TV programs they had seen long ago, they found themselves another faint hope, and worked on it. With only solar power derived through worn-out thermocouple units to feed their uncertain ionics, they could change course only very slowly, now. Yet maybe they had used up their bad luck.
Rick held it to his own heart for a few minutes, then tapped on the bell with his forefinger. "Looks good on the display," Dick's voice came back. "What did you hit it with a hammer?" "Finger," Rick said. "Let's take a temperature next." He found the thermocouple that would be attached to the marmoset's body, traced the circuit to the oscillator, then called, "Watch my own body heat."
A great roll of stellene tubing, to have a six-feet six-inch inside diameter when inflated, was delivered on Monday. Enough for three bubbs. The Archer Fives were expected to be somewhat delayed, due to massive ordering. But small boxes of parts and raw stock for the ionics had begun to arrive, too. Capacitors, resistors, thermocouple units.
"Why Arcot what's the idea of the winter regalia?" asked Fuller in surprise. "Think a moment they are going to visit a place whose temperature is seventy degrees colder than their room temperature. In the bargain, Venus never has any seasonal change of temperature, and a heavy bank of clouds that eternally cover the planet keeps the temperature as constant as a thermocouple arrangement could.
His and Lester's blastoff drums were still in the freight compartment, but the ionics and air-restorers had been similarly rendered unworkable. Their oxygen and water flasks were gone. Only their bubbs were intact, but there was nothing with which to inflate them. When Frank examined the sun-powered tractor, he found that tiny platinum plates had been taken from the thermocouple units.
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