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mark(at)macomb.com
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 Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: Clothes pins |
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Dan, I have indeed heard of clipping clothes pins on the fuel line to
prevent vapor lock. My friends attached the clothes pins and they didn't
get vapor lock as they drove across Nevada in July. This must be proof
that it works.
I have never had a problem with vapor lock in my automobile. Diesels
seem have some sort of immunity to this problem.
Mark
Hopperdhh(at)aol.com wrote:
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I read the link to vapor lock but didn't read that you can clip
clothespins on the fuel line to prevent vapor lock. Have any of you
auto fuel fans tried that? This is humor.
do not archive please
Dan Hopper
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FLYaDIVE(at)aol.com
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:49 am Post subject: Clothes pins |
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In a message dated 7/12/06 10:56:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mark(at)macomb.com
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| Quote: | Dan, I have indeed heard of clipping clothes pins on the fuel line to
prevent vapor lock. My friends attached the clothes pins and they didn't
get vapor lock as they drove across Nevada in July. This must be proof
that it works.
I have never had a problem with vapor lock in my automobile. Diesels
seem have some sort of immunity to this problem.
Mark
Hopperdhh(at)aol.com wrote:
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> I read the link to vapor lock but didn't read that you can clip
> clothespins on the fuel line to prevent vapor lock. Have any of you
> auto fuel fans tried that? This is humor.
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> do not archive please
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> Dan Hopper
> RV-7A
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Can you guys spell BS?
Closes pins, on a fuel line to prevent vapor lock .... Yea Right! ... What
are your fuel lines made of Paper Straws? I don't care where you purchase your
clothespins from ... Or how strong the tree is that they were made from, or
even how strong the clothespin spring is, I have never ... not even in my
original 1953 Ford Coup are you going to find a fuel line soft enough to have a
clothespin restrict the flow to prevent vapor-lock. Not to even mention how are
you going to OPEN the clothespin big enough to fit around a fuel line.
Come on guys ... A little bit of forethought in your planning before you
launch a BS story. I know, you are not launching a BS Story ... Your heard this
from your Grandmother!
Hey I got a better one ... Want to purchase MAGNETS to fit around the fuel
lines so you can align the molecules? This will give you More HP and increase
your gas mileage 10.65%
Better yet, why not mount your engine on its side, that way you will reduce
the side load of gravity on the pistons and also have gravity helping you pull
the pistons down on the upper ones and increase the speed of the compression
stroke on the lower ones ... That should add more HP, reduce side load ware and
save gas too!
Just remember you heard it here first!
For $29.95 ... Whoops, better make that $59.95 + S/H (Gas inflation you know)
I will send you a full 5 pages of how this works.
Barry
"Chop'd Liver"
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jmsears(at)adelphia.net
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:39 am Post subject: Clothes pins |
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I'm not going to say that the clothespin theory won't work because it must
have worked for someone, at some point in history. As a teenager, I bought
my first car. It was a '52 Ford Victoria hardtop with a flat head eight
cylinder engine. I had several vapor locks with that car. I tried wrapping
the fuel lines with aluminum foil and tried lots of clothespins. Neither
worked. When my trusty steed quit when I was quite a few miles from home,
I'd had enough. I asked the more experienced and had an electric fuel pump
suggested. I installed one on the frame just ahead of the tank and never
had another vapor lock while I owned the car. 
Jim
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Bob Perkinson
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 51
Location: Hendersonville, Tennessee
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:48 am Post subject: Clothes pins |
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There is some validly to the old practice of putting clothes pins on fuel
lines. The fact that wood is a good insulator would prevent radiant heat
from reaching the line, of course the clothes pins would have to be placed
side by side the length of the line to do any good. I am sure that no one
would actually pop the cowling and put 25 or 30 close pens on the line a
then go flying. But then again there might be! :>) And for $3.98 I'll send
you 5 blank pages and you can write your own story.
DO NOT ARCHIVE
Bob Perkinson
Hendersonville, TN.
RV9 N658RP Reserved
If nothing changes
Nothing changes
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In a message dated 7/12/06 10:56:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mark(at)macomb.com
writes:
| Quote: | Dan, I have indeed heard of clipping clothes pins on the fuel line to
prevent vapor lock. My friends attached the clothes pins and they didn't
get vapor lock as they drove across Nevada in July. This must be proof
that it works.
I have never had a problem with vapor lock in my automobile. Diesels
seem have some sort of immunity to this problem.
Mark
Hopperdhh(at)aol.com wrote:
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> I read the link to vapor lock but didn't read that you can clip
> clothespins on the fuel line to prevent vapor lock. Have any of you
> auto fuel fans tried that? This is humor.
>
> do not archive please
>
> Dan Hopper
> RV-7A
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Can you guys spell BS?
Closes pins, on a fuel line to prevent vapor lock .... Yea Right! ... What
are your fuel lines made of Paper Straws? I don't care where you purchase
your
clothespins from ... Or how strong the tree is that they were made from, or
even how strong the clothespin spring is, I have never ... not even in my
original 1953 Ford Coup are you going to find a fuel line soft enough to
have a
clothespin restrict the flow to prevent vapor-lock. Not to even mention how
are
you going to OPEN the clothespin big enough to fit around a fuel line.
Come on guys ... A little bit of forethought in your planning before you
launch a BS story. I know, you are not launching a BS Story ... Your heard
this
from your Grandmother!
Hey I got a better one ... Want to purchase MAGNETS to fit around the fuel
lines so you can align the molecules? This will give you More HP and
increase
your gas mileage 10.65%
Better yet, why not mount your engine on its side, that way you will reduce
the side load of gravity on the pistons and also have gravity helping you
pull
the pistons down on the upper ones and increase the speed of the compression
stroke on the lower ones ... That should add more HP, reduce side load ware
and
save gas too!
Just remember you heard it here first!
For $29.95 ... Whoops, better make that $59.95 + S/H (Gas inflation you
know)
I will send you a full 5 pages of how this works.
Barry
"Chop'd Liver"
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mark(at)macomb.com
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:28 am Post subject: Clothes pins |
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Barry,
We certainly can spell BS. Dan's post declared "This is humor." so I
played along. I'm trying to remember the explanation on why clothes pins
were supposed to work but it wasn't restricting the fuel flow. It was
something about dissipating the heat. Wood being such a good conductor
of heat you know. A Google search reveals that many people really
believe that this works.
Speaking of fertilizer, I went to one of those 100 MPG seminars a few
years ago. Plenty of bovine waste material being shoveled that day. At
one point we were told about this great new idea of vaporizing the fuel
before it reached the cylinders. Gee, I believe that a couple of bicycle
mechanics from Ohio used this method on an engine back in 1903.
Do not archive any of this.
Mark
FLYaDIVE(at)aol.com wrote:
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In a message dated 7/12/06 10:56:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mark(at)macomb.com
writes:
>Dan, I have indeed heard of clipping clothes pins on the fuel line to
> prevent vapor lock. My friends attached the clothes pins and they didn't
> get vapor lock as they drove across Nevada in July. This must be proof
> that it works.
>
> I have never had a problem with vapor lock in my automobile. Diesels
> seem have some sort of immunity to this problem.
> Mark
>
> Hopperdhh(at)aol.com wrote:
> >
> > I read the link to vapor lock but didn't read that you can clip
> > clothespins on the fuel line to prevent vapor lock. Have any of you
> > auto fuel fans tried that? This is humor.
> >
> > do not archive please
> >
> > Dan Hopper
> > RV-7A
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Can you guys spell BS?
Closes pins, on a fuel line to prevent vapor lock .... Yea Right! ... What
are your fuel lines made of Paper Straws? I don't care where you purchase your
clothespins from ... Or how strong the tree is that they were made from, or
even how strong the clothespin spring is, I have never ... not even in my
original 1953 Ford Coup are you going to find a fuel line soft enough to have a
clothespin restrict the flow to prevent vapor-lock. Not to even mention how are
you going to OPEN the clothespin big enough to fit around a fuel line.
Come on guys ... A little bit of forethought in your planning before you
launch a BS story. I know, you are not launching a BS Story ... Your heard this
from your Grandmother!
Hey I got a better one ... Want to purchase MAGNETS to fit around the fuel
lines so you can align the molecules? This will give you More HP and increase
your gas mileage 10.65%
Better yet, why not mount your engine on its side, that way you will reduce
the side load of gravity on the pistons and also have gravity helping you pull
the pistons down on the upper ones and increase the speed of the compression
stroke on the lower ones ... That should add more HP, reduce side load ware and
save gas too!
Just remember you heard it here first!
For $29.95 ... Whoops, better make that $59.95 + S/H (Gas inflation you know)
I will send you a full 5 pages of how this works.
Barry
"Chop'd Liver"
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FLYaDIVE(at)aol.com
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: Clothes pins |
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In a message dated 7/13/06 8:30:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mark(at)macomb.com
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one point we were told about this great new idea of vaporizing the fuel
before it reached the cylinders. Gee, I believe that a couple of bicycle
mechanics from Ohio used this method on an engine back in 1903.
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Mark:
I did not see the "This is humor" note, I guess I missed it.
The Internet is a super tool, unfortunately it also spreads BS faster than
The Man of Steel can fly.
Have you ever heard the story of skunk essence being used to prolong the
smell of perfume? And that is also the reason why perfume cost more than cologne
(hard to find people to mile a skunk). I started that story way back when I
was about 11 years old.
As for the idea about atomizing the fuel before it reaches the cylinders, I
did not know my breven thought of that ... I thought I did way back in 1966. I
made a plate that fit between the Carb and the intake manifold. It had an
impeller mounted on it. It spun from the suction of the cylinders and being
that it was below the carburetor the idea was droplets of fuel would hit the
impeller and be broken up still further. I never patented the idea, but a few
years later I saw my idea being sold in J.C. Whitney.
Barry
"Chop'd Liver"
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jjessen
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Posts: 285
Location: OR
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:10 am Post subject: Clothes pins |
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I had a serious response to the original clothespin post, with my scientific
testing nose in the air, when I finally saw the "humor" comment. Almost
made quite a fool of myself, which wouldn't have been hard. After that I
just had get out of the house and to go to the hanger to build some more,
clapping my hands as I left and kissing my clove of garlic I hang round my
neck (just that morning got a fresh batch). Those damned elephants haven't
been around since I started clapping, and I'm not the only one who's making
sure they stay away. Lot of the neighbors clap as well. Clearly it's
working. Not sure about the vampires. Hard to tell.
John Jessen
-10 Tailcone
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