Way cool! You are THE MAN! -- Mark Price Morgantown, WV 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II " I realize that death is inevitable. I just don't want to be around when it happens! " -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> > Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Check the idea below out! > > Anyone know how dangerous this realy is? > > Yeah, I know flammable gas, but hey it sure sounds like it would work! > > OK I just went and did it. The tank I yanked from the Ramber still has a > dozen gallons of LPG in it, and with a #8 line laying around, thought > I'd try it. > > Mind you I could not find a coffee can! Coffee snobs here -- we only buy > Fair Trade organic unground coffee beans from a local shop! -- and who > has metal pails any more? So I used half of a harley gas tank! (Our > property was owned by a guy named Dean Lanza, who was kind of a loser, > it turns out, but his one claim to fame is that he painted Peter FOnda's > bike, and some of the others, in the movie EASY RIDER. He left behind a > few tank halfs.) Anyways. > > Watch the movie! http://wps.com/temp/MOV04076.MPG > > I was surprised at how long it lingers in the pot as a liquid. I'm just > guessing, but a pint would probably last 10, 15 minutes, enough to suck > the heat out of a few piston pins. > > The problem is gonna be the huge mess it makes when you're filling the > coffee can (sic) -- it's at 100psi (pressure varies with temp, I'm just > guessing, google it) so it's like drinking from a hose on full. But if > you filled something with a neck.... > > So it looks like it would work. TO be honest, other than the built-in > drama of cyrogenic liquids, it's no worse than working with gasoline. > > ANd man does this stuff stink!! > > > > > > > > Done outside and taking those precautions, hmmmm. > > > > -- > > Mark Price > > Morgantown, WV > > 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5 > > 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II > > " I realize that death is inevitable. > > I just don't want to be around when it happens! " > > > > -------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- > > From: "shiva1956" > > To: wastewatts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [wastewatts] Re: babington rod oven. > > Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:12:12 +0000 > >> Mark, > >> I use propane to freeze all my pins and bushings. Use it for the > >> dozer track pins also. No special tanks required and dangerous to I > >> suspect. Just get a hose for your 20# propane tank from an old > >> barbecue and remove the regulator so you only have the hose and tank > >> fitting. Attach it to your tank and turn upside down. Run enough > >> liquid propane into a metal coffee type can to cover most of the pins > >> and wait a few minutes before installing. Use good gloves or better > >> yet rubber coated pliers so you do not scratch your pins or freeze > >> your hand. You can throw a lid over the can between pins and it will > >> last a long time before it boils off. > >> > >> Do it outside and put your cigarrette out first. I always wear > >> safety glasses but in over 30 years have never had a problem. There > >> are probably other liquids that could be used but out in the bush of > >> Alaska you use what is around. My ex wife got tired of finding > >> pistons, rods and bearings in her oven. > >> > >> Scott > >> > >> --- In wastewatts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Wrambler242@... wrote: > >>> Heard of it. > >>> Near as I can figure I need liquid nitrogen or some other such > >> thing we don't have much acces to here in Morgantown! Not easily > >> anyway! > >>> If you know an easy to access means of getting it I'm all ears. > >>> > >>> I do have one idea, but I have to wait my time. > >>> My son is a Freshman at WVU in the Engineering dept. > >>> If I wait long enough I figure he'll get a chance at something like > >> that! > >>> I really want something repeatable that does not require > >> specialized tanks etc; > >>> -- > >>> Mark Price > >>> Morgantown, WV > >>> 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5 > >>> 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II > >>> " I realize that death is inevitable. > >>> I just don't want to be around when it happens! 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