Re: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern

Didn't you say it was the wet, as in water, ATF? The concern is from steam - very high pressures very fast. Sounds like you didn't get it that hot - good. When/if you repeat this process, use dry ATF. On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 8:03 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I

Re: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern

Well i learned to do body work using fiberglass & frigonometry. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Mar 10, 2018 9:47 PM, "Meade Dillon via Mercedes" wrote: > Frigonometry! Sounds like an engineering practice I should master... > > - > Max > Charleston SC > > On

Re: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern

Frigonometry! Sounds like an engineering practice I should master... - Max Charleston SC On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 9:16 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Way to go Curt clearly Yankee ingenuity & frigonometry. > > ___

Re: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern

Way to go Curt clearly Yankee ingenuity & frigonometry. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Mar 10, 2018 8:34 PM, "Curt Raymond via Mercedes" wrote: > A year or so ago I knocked a lantern off its peg, it landed exactly upside > down and pushed in the top of the tank (fount

Re: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern

> Fred Moir. > Lynn MA. > Diesel preferred. > > > > From: Mercedes <mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com> on behalf of Curt Raymond via > Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: 10 March 2018 20:34 > To: Mercedes Discussion List >

Re: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern

;mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Meade Dillon <dillonm...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern Wow, glad you didn't have an explosion!  Was the liquid inside still contained and unable to escape when you applied the heat? I'd be leery of repeating that technique... -

Re: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern

I don't think there was all that much pressure or heat. I only put a couple pumps of the grease gun into it and kind of played the torch over the lantern for maybe 30 seconds total, the lantern was barely warm to the touch. Remember working pressure in these is like 30psi. They ones they make

Re: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern

sion List Cc: Curt Raymond Subject: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern A year or so ago I knocked a lantern off its peg, it landed exactly upside down and pushed in the top of the tank (fount is the term we use). This is a brass fount lantern so soft and even more likely to crush. I'd tried yanking on it

Re: [MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern

Wow, glad you didn't have an explosion! Was the liquid inside still contained and unable to escape when you applied the heat? I'd be leery of repeating that technique... - Max Charleston SC On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >

[MBZ] OT: Saving a lantern

A year or so ago I knocked a lantern off its peg, it landed exactly upside down and pushed in the top of the tank (fount is the term we use). This is a brass fount lantern so soft and even more likely to crush. I'd tried yanking on it in various ways and got nowhere. Today I went to the