Flamering felt seal slider freeing video

Thought you'all'd like to see a hobot Norton moment, with Wesley awaiting to get the primary ready to assemble. The inner case sliding felt seal holder was rusted behind, so stiff almost boogered the edges with hammer and drift for nil motion. Figured heat and penetrating catalyst would work it loose. Had torch going I'd put a new tank on and used a few times already, sitting on desk and it just went out on its own. Let it warm up but no go, so resorted to ancient practice displayed by the late Mr. John Hudson on his engine video. Note my startle when I grabbed can of ether first instead of PJBlaster, next reaction was alright y cool! Couldn't get the video tag here to work so must tag the URL's for rest of the short 2 part story.

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Makes you wonder what is more dangerous, small hammers or pyromaniacs :mrgreen:

Jean

Jean,

A small hammer in the hand of a pyromaniac is worse. Hobot thanks for the cooking lesson.

That's HOT!

i keep fire department size extinguishers handy but this looks more dramatic than dangerous but got the job done, till next immediate scheduled show stopper.
Still don't know why propane torch quit, new tank and almost new valve/torch.
I was pensive the grommet would melt and felt seal burn to carbon, but no sweat the fire burnt off the excess oil like a wick so ended up just drying it out. Turned out the primary cover was not the one I took off Trixie, her's was still free and good to go, but too late now.

Very entertaining Steve Keep those posts comin'

Almost lost my shed with Trixie last pm burning brush I let leaves burns a bit right up to shed wall but stepped the few inches of flame out in less than a minute and turned back to collect limbs for the main fire, then wife walked out all in a huff I was smoking the place up, then we both had a shock to see more light coming from shed that lights bulbs to find 8 feet of wall and 6 ft of roof in flames inside. The cheap fiber board at bottom of tin cover had started to smolder with very little flame exposure. Alicia said she never saw me move so fast, grabbed big CO2 cone nozzle dry ice blaster and knocked flames out before it ran out, ugh, but would flame back up wall to ceiling so grabbed a bucket and Ran to spring branch and back 60 yd sprints to splash with a smaller can till really out. Took about half hour and 25 gallons to get the hidden behinds smoldering out. Lost a pair of front seats for Lexus 400, I used to have, but used up on THE Gravel, so can't sell them anymore, ugh. Must remember to get extinguisher recharged before Trixie start up. Came close to no more Trixie posts or future saga's leaving flaming smoking trails off into sunsets.

Oh, man Steve, you're a lucky man. Fires in the country are no fun. I woke up one night to pee and saw a yellow glow off the west side of the house and went to look and the firewood I had stacked between the posts of the deck was on fire. Holey Cow, sh*t a brick. Got the hose out and put it out, but scared me to death. If I hadn't had to pee, the whole side of the house would have gone up in flames before we would have smelled it. Scared me sh*tless. We had been grilling on the deck and one of the coals fell on the pile of wood. Never more grilling on the deck. Grill in the driveway now.

Like I say, in the country you have no choice but to try to put it out, can't wait for the FD, it'll be gone. I guess that's why our house insurance is so high.

Glad you didn't have a big problem but I know how you feel.

Dave
69S

Oh yeah Dave, you are on your own way out in the sticks. Strange how both of us just caught ours in time. A very few minutes more in my shed fire and it would have reach peak of roof w/o enough CO2 left to stop the flame flair up and not enough of me to carry water far and fast enough. No accounting for fate and one in a row out of the blue random combos of unknown danger.
Jim Comstock's horror washed over me in waves I'll tell ya.

Mr. John Hudson did a engine build video, he cranks up a old school blow torch so loud its covers his speaking and he's old and fumbling with it for minutes of suspense waving it around to heat a part then sets it on bench and steps out of view - while torch is catching rags on fire to flair up till the camera man has to reach in and grab torch and put out the fire around the engine and bench. I flash on that scene a lot.

Fire made man king of the world over nature, so header hot dogs now possible.

We're the lucky ones. I know a few that aren't and the whole house burned down. Nothing to stop it until a neighbor a mile or so away see or smells it and calls the FD. Too late then.

Be careful. Fire is a good tool, just like the Norton, don't let it bite you, keep respect.

Dave
69S

Oh yes that is too common a story here. I have to treat some of these folks and neighbors trauma. Another barely lucked out event was grass clogging mower fins till flamed up grease fire inside the box chassis. I ran 130 yd to grab 30 lb extinguisher to run back, thinking I'd lose mower then field then woods then neighbors hay bales, I stumbled leaping over spring branch, w/o strength left to stand I felt like combat movie, scratching and crawling and rolling towards the pill box to blast laying down form some yards away. I won that one just before fuel line melted open. New belts was all it took to mow again but Norton gave me the nerve to completely rebuild it last year. Don't check fuel level with a lighter eh.

hobot said:

Don't check fuel level with a lighter eh.

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:lol:

Jean

Don't look down the barrel of a gun to see if it's loaded right after a missfire too,

Dave
69S

Don't get involved with things that have two wheels and a motor you can sit on, duh.