Actually, one cup of gasoline has the same explosive power as 18 sticks of
dynomite. Thirty years ago, as a teenager, when I first read that, I
informed my father, that poor inexperienced fellow that was living at my
house, that that fact was obviously incorrect. He pointed to a Chevrolet
Impala station wagon in the driveway. "A gallon of gas will power that car
down the road about 18 miles. How many sticks of dynomite would it take to
blow that car down the road 18 miles." I kinda thought that was a good
point even if it did come from that fourty year old geezer.
There are commercialy available solvents. Use only those. I have been a
firefighter for 26 years. Gasoline is nothing to fool with except exactly
as intended
Chris DeStaffany
1966 Herald
1975 Spit
At 08:33 PM 11/8/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Jack Levy wrote:
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>> Is it safe to run straight gas on those parts washers with the electric
>> pumps in them? It says to use "pretroleum based solvents with a flash
>> temperature greater than 105 degrees".
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>It is not safe to play with gasoline, period.
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>I wouldn't put it in a parts washer with any sort of pump. Wouldn't even
>put it in a parts washer.
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>We used Varsol (an esso product- Varnish Solvent I think) in our solvent
>tank at the high school. WD-40 is also good at cleaning (probably has
>lots of detergents) but might be too expensive.
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>Remember, 1 litre (quart) of gasoline has about the same explosive power
>as a stick of dynamite.
>
>-Malcolm
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