The instructor at our aircraft fabric covering workshop related how the MEK fumes from the process had accumulated inside the fuselage of the Pitts she had just finished. She was vacuuming the inside of the rear fuselage with the shop vac when it suddenly exploded. Yup- MEK fumes in the vac exploded it.
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 12:43 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Shop vac shouldn't. Mattias Wandel did a video on it awhile back where he > washed the impeller on his shop vac without incident. > Regular vacs do... > Curt > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 1:34 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes< > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Dangerous if the car has managed to get > gas into the oil. > Carburetor washdown, etc. The shop vac runs the air through > the sparky motor brushes. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” Wernher Von Braun 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
