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CarGuru > Technology > Exploding garage 9 May 2005 18:45:40

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Exploding garage

Burgerman 8 May 2005 22:27:52
 If any of you get this months BIKE magazine, I am the guy in the middle who
blew up his garage...

I used to work for them too, a while back.

Burgerman

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Steve Firth 9 May 2005 00:43:29 permanent link ]
 Burgerman <burgerman@ntlworld­.com> wrote:
If any of you get this months BIKE magazine,

Sorry, I'm a heterosexualist, so I don't get that magazine.
I am the guy in the middle who blew up his garage...

Having seen Steve's scan, you have my deepest sympathy. The largest
thing I have blown up unintentionally was a fuel tank. No matter how
long you leave them to purge, it's always a bit pot luck when it comes
to brazing a patch in place. It reached about 100ft, fortunately it
missed me on the way up and the Triumph it belonged to on the way down.

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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Burgerman 9 May 2005 02:01:25 permanent link ]
 
"Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.­uk> wrote in message
news:1gw9i4n.1yjeze­019e2785N%%steve%@ma­lloc.co.uk...> Burgerman <burgerman@ntlworld­.com> wrote:>
If any of you get this months BIKE magazine,>
Sorry, I'm a heterosexualist, so I don't get that magazine.>
I am the guy in the middle who blew up his garage...>
Having seen Steve's scan, you have my deepest sympathy. The largest> thing I have blown up unintentionally was a fuel tank. No matter how> long you leave them to purge, it's always a bit pot luck when it comes> to brazing a patch in place. It reached about 100ft, fortunately it> missed me on the way up and the Triumph it belonged to on the way down.>

I welded lots of fuel tanks...

Put about half a cup of fuel in, and light it. It flickers yellow for 20
mins and eventually goes out when there is nothing left to burn.
Now you can weld it!



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www.dynamometer.fsn­et.co.uk/ All about Dynamometers
www.powerchair-revi­ew.fsnet.co.uk/ Powerchairs reviews and Robots
www.tuning.wanadoo.­co.uk/ All about engine tuning! (for dummies)


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SteveH 9 May 2005 02:36:16 permanent link ]
 Burgerman <burgerman@ntlworld­.com> wrote:
You won't be wanting a bike, then. 20 litres of finest unleaded between> > your legs....>
Well if you only use pump fuel your boost is set too low?> Or compression too low?> Or not enough nitrous!

Hondas lovely vee-4 doesn't need stuff like that ;-)­

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Burgerman 9 May 2005 02:53:16 permanent link ]
 
"SteveH" <steve@italiancar.c­o.uk> wrote in message
news:1gw9o7r.1ivtvj­v1jomzp3N%steve@ital­iancar.co.uk...> Burgerman <burgerman@ntlworld­.com> wrote:>
You won't be wanting a bike, then. 20 litres of finest unleaded between>> > your legs....>>
Well if you only use pump fuel your boost is set too low?>> Or compression too low?>> Or not enough nitrous!>
Hondas lovely vee-4 doesn't need stuff like that ;-)­

Good bikes for smooth touring or scratching a bit on back roads but no real
go?
I rode lots of vfr's but they all sort of underwhelmed me. Typical
sanitised good at everything honda.
When you are rolling along and crack the throttle it leaves no stripe on the
road, does not scare anyone, and is just too inofensive for me...I like to
wheelie for 1/4 mile at a time going through gbox, or leaving smoke and
rubber for the first 4 gears. I am a refugee from the dragstrip...

Better with a 1100 with 1500 big bore, 14.5 to one compression, flat slides,
(no cuddly cv carbs or injection) and 2 stages of nitrous... One blip of the
throttle through the open pipe causes car alarms and old people go off.
They pick up so fast that blipping it is instant and it goes to 11000 rpm in
about 0.2 of a sec with flames on the throttle closing. 250 TO 300 BHP is
mental fun!!!


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JackH 9 May 2005 04:30:18 permanent link ]
 
"Pete M" <pete.murray@blue-n­opressedmeat-yonder.­co.uk> wrote in message
news:427e9763$0$794­62$14726298@news.sun­site.dk...
Old bloke who was a mate of my dads, was a rear gunner on the Lancaster> bombers in WWII, proper nice old guy, brave as anything, he basically
forced> me to go back to the garage where it happened the next day. His words were> "If you don't go back, it'll make your life a whole lot more difficult".
a difficult thing for me to do as a 13yr old, but the old guy undid his> shirt and he was covered in scars from being burnt in the war, he said
"face> your demons, and you'll be fine".

...and then he took you to one side, and said 'Now then... fancy a suck on
this?', pausing only momentarily, to pluck a Werthers Original from the bag
in his pocket.

;-)­

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JackH


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Iain Miller 9 May 2005 16:35:08 permanent link ]
 
You know the bit where it tells you to warm the Waxoyl before spraying> it? He dispensed with the usual bucket of hot water and stood the can of> Waxoyl on a camping Gaz stove.>
<Woomph>

Sounds like he was nearly a canditate for the Darwin awards.

I.


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Steve Firth 9 May 2005 18:45:40 permanent link ]
 Iain Miller <donot@spam.me> wrote:
You know the bit where it tells you to warm the Waxoyl before spraying> > it? He dispensed with the usual bucket of hot water and stood the can of> > Waxoyl on a camping Gaz stove.> >
<Woomph>>
Sounds like he was nearly a canditate for the Darwin awards.

I thinkhe woudl have been had he been oiling the chassis at the time.
Fortunately he stood up to stretch his back and the <woomph> which
ejected a disk of flaming Waxoyl out of the can parallel to the ground
simply stuck to him and removed the skin (and quite a bit of muscle)
from his groin to his ankles.

Someone who saw it said it was like one of thos eexplosions in cheesy
SciFi films. Not a ball of flame, but an expanding doughnut of flame.

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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