At 00:45 1/23/2005, P.Dooley wrote: >One thing that I didn't consider was the possibility of a drill bit >fracture. This is a problem with some of the hardened drill bits. Drill bits by definition are normally hardened, and they among the most highly stressed tools in existence. Beware. And when you change out your fuel filter in subzero weather don't clamp off the tank line and go inside while the blast heater warms things up, at least not without opening the test port and arranging some useful fate for what comes out. The circuit will pressurize all the way up to the fuel regulator setting before venting back to the tank...when I pulled the hose off the filter the whole world suddenly turned smelly and wet, it emptied the filter pretty well (small square one). If it had ignited I would have been burned over my entire head and at least down to the nipple line; and quite possibly killed if I inhaled the flame. Not to mention maybe freezing to death if the neighbors didn't hear me screaming. Right alongside ADM. Gallery, when I think about it I tend to pee in my pants a little bit. And I keep hearing the WHUMP that didn't happen. Awful glad I never actually took care of anybody with serious burns, I know way too much about it as it is. Thank you, Lord. david
-- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"
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