I understand that you can extinguish a cigarette by stubbing it out in a pool of gasoline.............................. Anyone tried it lately ?? Martin
[snip] He vacated the 20ft circle of burning Thanks, Ron ! I always heard interesting things about Catterick........... No, I' a non smoker and unlikely to try - but it's always interesting to find o
Author: Carl Pattinson <carl@photos.prestel.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:57:15
Hi folks Its me again, the duty harbinger of doom ! I have just been looking over Ron Swindens Rotax engine installation and noticed to my horror that the twin carbs are located directly above the ex
I believe that Rotax recommend carb drip trays. Check in the latest club newsletter - I seem to recall that there was a PFA approved mod to fit drip trays. Tony --End of Original Message-- -- Tony Kr
Author: Graham Singleton <100421.2123@compuserve.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:40:33
pipe) causing a fire, if not an explosion.<< I thought that too, but one of our number who used to build race cars for a living assured me that petrol would not ignite even on red hot pipes, far wor
overflow pipe) causing a fire, if not an explosion.<<< he says is oil, which will ignite and is harder to extinguish.<< Graham is quite right here, petrol, even Avgas, will boil away quite happily an
<< I understand that you can extinguish a cigarette by stubbing it out in a pool of gasoline.............................. Anyone tried it lately ?? Martin >> Not quite lately Martin but a friend of
Re fuel for extinguishing cigarette stubs. Yes it does work with AVTUR (Jet A) - I'm not so sure about the USA wide cut Jet A1 and I definatly would not like to try it with AVGAS or MOGAS. As RAF gro
Now there's ingenuity for you ! We had to steal coal from the dump - but you mean to tell me that the RAF was still using Nissen huts and coal stoves in the 1960's ? As for using aircraft fuel - we c
<< The property to watch out for with petrol is its very, very low flash point. Introduce any sort of spark to petrol VAPOURS and you will get a very powerful explosion. >> As any fuel exiting the ca