kinda like when we'd go fishing at the old golf course pond, catch a
carp, help it swallow an M-80 and toss it back in the pond.
PHRUMP!
but I digress ....
:) Chap
On 7/27/2011 12:05 PM, David Lieb wrote:
>> This falls under the category of YMMV, but if you know about engines you
> know that gasoline vapors and oxygen will only combust when they are close the
> the proper mixture of one to the other. (Which of course is why carburetor
> tuning is so critical to an engine's performance.) So too much oxygen or not
> enough oxygen, and no combustion. That's not to say that you won't be the
> lucky person whose tank hits the mixture just right.
>
> "Close" is a relative term. There are a number of factors that mandate
> the ideal stoichiometric ratio of air to fuel in an internal
> combustion gasoline engine. The ability to make an air/gasoline
> mixture ignite rapidly (not a true explosion, I understand), OTOH, is
> a lot less stringent. On a related topic, I recall in my lost youth
> seeing people remove dents from the gas tanks of their poor abused
> Jeeps by pulling the tank, dumping out the gas, putting back a very
> small amount, leaving in the sun for a short period, then tossing a
> match at the filler tube. Very dramatic and effective results, but not
> for the faint of heart.
> David L
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