On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> > the batteries had been charged worked just fine. 10% below top, and, > well, out came the can of ether. Grrrr... > PMFJI, but ether as starting fluid for diesels? bad idea imho. Better off with a can of WD40. Ether's pretty abusive, far faster flame front, and will detonate before the piston gets to TDC leading to excessive piston ring loading. (I have heard that new reformulations of WD40 no longer work for this, dunno, I had a case of the stuff I bought about 10 years ago, and it's still going strong. But I rarely need to use it for that. ) Safest small diesel assist is a heat gun or hair dryer at the air intake, works on systems with dead glow plugs too. -- http://neon-buddha.net _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
