Random Cool Tricks

Looks like a great way to break a leg.

 

Brings back memories of Ward 7D at Bethesda Naval Hospital some time in 1981.
Residents shuffling around in foam rubber slippers and playing pool on a table that was hopelessly low at one corner.

 

And still Canada is not shown , How to keep USA dumbed down

 

Isn't Canada north of the cue ball?

 

The time is near when nights will be cool enough that sitting around a kerosene heater and a couple gas lamps on the deck will be comfortable. Time to take a look at the heaters to be sure they're in good working order and full of fuel.

That last bit, the fuel level part, was how I got an Aladdin Blue Flame heater for about half what it would've cost just for shipping.

Why?

Because the fuel gauge said the tank was half full, when in fact it was dry. This burned the wick down so far that it was useless, and I found it in the fully raised position, stuck there, nowhere near high enough to even light.


The fuel gauge is a simple optical unit with zero moving parts. When fuel covers the end of clear rods, they turn dark. Completely fool proof until dried kerosene turns the ends of the fiber optic rods dark. In my case, the two longest rods had become completely brown at their ends from being dipped briefly in kerosene which dried as the level dropped, or the heater was moved. This gave the illusion that there was fuel in the tank when there was none.


The fix is simple enough. Remove the clear rod assembly and clean the accumulated varnish from the rods with a soapy Brillo pad. Once clean and clear again the fuel gauge can be trusted to indicate the true fuel level and the new wick will last for years.

 

SHEEYEAH I wish!!! We won't see those temps down here til Jan probably!!

Excellent!! Thanks for the tip. We have a couple of these. Honestly haven't been used in years but have spare wicks and a drum of kerosene just in case.

 

I heard a young tech pawing around in my boxes of spare pins and clips looking for a metal clip.

I made him step aside and showed him how to find metal clips in the sea of plastic.

Insert pocket magnet, stir...

...and there's your clip.

 

Love the garage junk sniper!

 

Show me where this is against the rules. Calms the nerves.

 

They're not showing you the pic of the safety dude being carried off in a straitjacket ........unless he's on the other side of the backhoe catching a smoke break.

 

LOL,Years ago I was working on a drilling site that had a 10 inch line going into a vertical gas buster wash out a 90 degree ell. There was no way to get to it from a man lift or scaffolding. Tearing it down was the only "safe" way to access it. No one wanted to do that as it would cost 10's of thousands of dollars a day for the rig to be down. Told the company man I could fix it but it would take him and the safety man to leave the site for a 4 hour lunch.. He just smirked and told me to call him when their lunch should end. As soon as they were off site I had one of the cranes hook up to the back of my harness and sky me into position. Cut the old 90 out and replaced it in 3 hours-even spray painted the repair so it would match the piping. Got me a 5th of Crown Royal when the company man signed my ticket

 

Mine , Garage sale , 5 bucks , just needed cleaning and a new wick , brown is from the dust from the woodwork shop
Sloth

 

I hate you.

I never find stuff like that....