On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Eric Zeno wrote: > "Pull a plug and hook a hose to any cylinder turn the engine over and it > will pump more air than the ac compressor with no oil loss" > > Fred, > Have you ever tried this? Have you ever drove down the highway > after filling one of your tires with a compressed gasoline/air mixture? > Sounds like a bomb to me? The danger isn't so much when you're driving down the road, it's when some poor sap has to dismount your tire bomb later. This was a big issue for shops when people would use some of the older 'fix-a-flat' cans -- many of them contained mostly propane! (Ever wondered how they got a whole tire's worth of "air" inside that little can? Now you know.) _ _ __ _ _ _| | | | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org \__, |\__,_|_|_| "...we're not getting the creeps who knocked the |___/ buildings down. We're getting the creeps whose address we know." -- Maureen Dowd |
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