That reminds me of my crazy youth. After rebuilding a motorcycle engine, I
couldn't get it to start, and I decided the petrol was too cold. So I
poured some into a metal bowl and warmed it up on my mother's gas stove!
Makes you wonder how wer'e still here.
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From: Don Guthrie <Don.Guthrie@netlink.co.nz>
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: triumphs@autox.team.net digest #701 Mon Jun 30 02:35:01MDT
1997
Date: Tuesday, July 01, 1997 8:42 PM
>John--STOP STOP NOW> Never use a shop vac to deal with gasoline
>or any tank that recently had gasoline in it. Your shop vac may become
>a BOMB from the left over fumes.. And vacuuming creates STATIC
>electricity on the plastic hose!
>
All good in theory - now here's the case study. I was 15 and had my first
car (a bright orange 1964 Mini 850 which cost $400 and broke down three
times on the way home). I can't for the life of me remember now what the
problem was I was trying to solve, but it involved an ingenious scheme
using Mum's vacuum cleaner to apply vacuum pressure to the fuel tank.
I guess I was lucky. It was one of the old-style cleaners that was a long
cylinder shape and the rear of it was pointing out the garage door. The
back half of the vacuum cleaner was blown about 20 feet out the door and
there was a 4-foot tongue of blue flame spouting out the back until I
turned it off.
It was cheap lesson, particularly since after reassembly the vacuum cleaner
worked fine (but now sporting a blackened rear end). He he he - how does
youth survive?
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