Torpedo heater is a better name for it. In Maine everybody calls every torpedo
heater a salemander
Just like you go Ski-Dooing even if you've got a Polaris.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:05:29 -0800
From: Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Oil draining and sucking
no electricity to
power it...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:00:58 -0600
From: R A Bennell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I have one
.
Otherwise all I do is melt the snow off
of the roof.
Randy
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:59 AM
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IIRC the largest electric heaters
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I just checked prices on styrofoam (like) sheet insulation in 4'x8' - Home
Depot has it for $9-$10 each
in it.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:53:02 -0600
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This is one of the box shaped heaters
I think the suggestion was to rent a heater just so you don't have to
freeze your bum off while fixing the car.
I stand in the plume from the torpedo heater. That way I
catch a bit as it heads for the (nonexistent) ceiling and
out the ridge vent.
Salamanders, IIRC, are a particular type of
Well, looks like I am going to have to finally try to construct an oil
sucking unit, because the oil drain plug is overtightened and rounded
off. Why oh why do people overtighten so many things??
Brian
On 11/25/07, Hendrik Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Technically you are sucking the oil and
the oil drain plug is overtightened and rounded
off. Why oh why do people overtighten so many things??
My sister-in-law has a rounded drain plug on her '91 Isuzu Rodeo. I was
planning to try vise grips on it, but the oil sucker does work on that car
with a tube inside the dipstick tube that
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Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 9:54 PM
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Technically you are sucking the oil and not draining it, so we go the
drainers and suckers on the list.
I am
, 2007 9:54 PM
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Technically you are sucking the oil and not draining it, so we go the
drainers and suckers on the list.
I am a drainer because I also like to get under the car at least twice a
year to check the steering
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Technically you are sucking the oil and not draining it, so we go the
drainers and suckers
.
Randy
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Go rent one of those big space heaters that looks like a jet engine and
turn
Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs
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From: R A Bennell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:00 PM
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I have one of those electric construction
POSTERS! youroil.net
Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs
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From: R A Bennell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:00 PM
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I have one
LarryT wrote:
I just checked prices on styrofoam (like) sheet insulation in 4'x8' - Home
Depot has it for $9-$10 each. Once my new metal 3 car garage is done I;ll
start installing them (once I buy them) ;-) and I hear they are *very*
effective. Will insulate the ceiling and walls.
Timothy Robinson wrote:
There's an interesting product called Tiger Foam (Google it). Comes all
self-contained for spray installation. We used it (insulation/fire rating)
and a project this summer. Beats the heck out of handling insulation bats or
dealing with the rigid foam sheets.
Sprayed
! youroil.net
Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs
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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:27 PM
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Timothy Robinson wrote
On Nov 26, 2007, at 8:52 PM, LarryT wrote:
what's OSB?
Oriented Strand Board, basically a board made of wood chips and glue.
OK if it stays dry.
Allan
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Actually OSB can stand a lot of wet, its the particle board that
melts. I am going by when I built my metal frame home, I used OSB for
everything in some of it was in the weather for years. Some of it was
used as a walk way in mud and I still have and use some of it now and
again.
Harry
On Nov
Technically you are sucking the oil and not draining it, so we go the
drainers and suckers on the list.
I am a drainer because I also like to get under the car at least twice a
year to check the steering components and anything else.
Hendrik
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I hate to be left out,
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