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

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

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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