Re: [Amc-list] FW: [wastewatts] Re: rod oven.

[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! "
> 
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> 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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