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Date:         Sun, 5 Dec 2010 14:24:22 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon engine fire or mishap in Roanoke, Va
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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At 01:33 PM 12/5/2010, Alistair Bell wrote: >I say that David does need to set up a hot plate and drip fluids onto >it. Video of expt. would be required :)

I'm touched. Even though I had more in mind a vertical plate and operating a squeeze bulb from twenty feet away, I'm still touched. :-P

>I've always been impressed at the whump of ignition when using >gasoline to light brush piles (we seem to generate a ton of that >stuff here on the "farm", and yes, we really do want a big chipper). >Diesel is so much safer to use, but sometimes the neighbour and I (he >is a bad influence) fool around.

Boy, I wish we were neighbors. Actually it's probably as well that we live four thousand miles apart.

>Even on cold days the gasoline vapours spread further than I imagine.

I was distantly present when a friend thought he could toss a kitchen match held at arms-length far enough. Brush burnt nicely, and so did his eyebrows. He didn't speak of his reactions, but his boy and I, fifty feet away, were impressed.

:-) d


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