Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:37:38 -0600
Reply-To: John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject: Re: RoadHaus - Escaping Air Sound?
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Truly horror stories!!
Regards the dry powder extinguisher, the worst horror story I know of
with that stuff was when the owner of an antique airplane called a
Cessna 195 (it had a 7 cylinder radial engine that cranked out 300 hp.)
over-primed it at Merrill Field Airport in Anchorage, AK . The
carburetor, being an updraft type, dumped the excess draining from the
intake pipes down onto the ground. The engine, being flooded, kicked
back and the gas caught on fire. Now the trick to starting an engine
with an engine fire is to keep on cranking, shut off the mixture, and
pull the carburetor heat control open ing some little doors to direct
air instead of filtered air, and sucking the flames back into the
engine intake system, thus snuffing the flames. Only in this case, the
able if not airplane-educated assistant pulled the pin, and flooded the
aircraft engine intake with the dry, gritty, powdery stuff, while the
doors were open on the engine to direct air. A huge charge of the stuff
went into the engine, through the intake manifold, past the intake
valves into the engine, and in a few moments the engine seized so
solidly and suddenly that the airplane made a little sidewise crowhop.
It was as if someone had put a wrench inside the cylinder barrel between
the piston and the cylinder head.
Scratch one $12,000 engine!!!!
Now that was a true horror story!
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Stan Wilder wrote:
>He infomed us that the computer has a
>softswitch so that when the software sensed an incoming telephone fax,
>the computer would boot to receive the fax message. disconnecting the
>phone line to the computer solved the problem until we could reset the
>switch.
>It was a funny event though, with everything booting up all at once.!!
>---------------------- Clip --------------------
>OK,.. you just brought out the worst war story on the HISS that I've
>experienced.
>While camping I always bring out my large fire extinguisher and set it in a
>location that I can easily reach when I'm cooking in the Westy.
>I know from experience that it takes at least a 10 pound extinguisher to put
>out an engine fire and at least a 5 pound extinguisher to put out a flaming
>skillet of French fries.
>The safety pin came out of my extinguisher and I hadn't noticed it.
>While organizing 'stuff' to get the bed down and made I accidentally dropped
>something on the extinguisher and through a combination of only the weird
>and the fact that the trigger was pre loaded with the extinguisher hanging
>in a five gallon plastic bucket the darn extinguisher unloaded it's nasty
>yellow powder into my Westy interior.
>Hardly got me at all from the fifty feet I ran before I figured what the
>noise and smoke like stuff was.
>Three years later I was still smelling and vacuuming up that stinking yellow
>fire extinguisher powder. That stuff just gets airborne and fills every void
>when the extinguisher is activated.
>Also I can tell you that it tastes awful when you crank down a window and
>the 70 mph breeze catches another hidden thimble full to distribute around
>the interior.
>---------------------
>Recently someone posted to the Porsche 912 list that they had a can of spray
>paint explode inside a relatively new Porsche. Sorrowful thing was that the
>Porsche was a recent purchase for the guy and he hadn't added it to his
>insurance policy before the can exploded. His explanation was that the can
>sprung a leak and rocketed around inside the closed car until it fully
>expended its contents.
>Sounds like a lawsuit in the making??????
>
>Stan Wilder
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