I've heard of people bulging gas tanks heating them with a hairdryer. With
diesel you'd have to get the tank really hot before it would put out
combustible fumes. Diesel will put out combustible fumes but its over 100
degrees (probably more like 150) before it will happen.
The last couple days I've been making our garden into raised beds, I bought
some 2x10s for the raising part. To keep them from rotting I use a mixture of
pine tar, turpentine and boiled linseed oil. To get the pine tar into solution
I boil the whole thing on a camp stove. I'm using an Optimus 8r stove since its
the smallest I have and my favorite. To light the stove you preheat with
denatured alcohol. The other day I thought I'd be a smarty and put the can of
pine tar mix on the stove before the preheat was done and capture some of that
heat. Well the preheat wafts up quite high and the next thing you know its
ignited the contents of the can! Fortunately I was standing there watching it
and I already had gloves on, I whipped the can off the flame and blew on it
which put the fire out. A good example of vapors lighting...
-Curt
From: Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: "mercedes@okiebenz com" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Cc: Karl Wittnebel <atypical...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 124 fuel tank
Fortune favors the bold.
Seriously though, has anyone here blown up a diesel tank? I would expect at
least one anecdote from this crowd.
On Apr 24, 2016 9:00 PM, "Max Dillon via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
That's awesome, but may not work as intended for a fuel tank (Boom!)...
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
On April 24, 2016 11:30:56 PM EDT, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>
>> Gentlemen, puh-leeze!
>>
>> https://youtu.be/xIijYgvxW0g
>>
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