a few words of advise for ya'll

[tomsteve]

this isnt related to woodworking other than i was intending to go garbage picking this morning. some advise for ya'll #1) dont use an anti-freeze jug as a temporary chainsaw gas can..... there might come a time when ya gotta add some anti freeze to your car and forget about the gas...#2) if you live in a cold climate, drain your garden hose and put it away properly so if you accidently put gas in your radiator you can flush it out easier. gotta go now. some dummy put gas in my radiator.

[greatdane2]

Sounds like the "dummy" is going to be busy. I keep a large black felt permanent marker in the steel cabinet where I store this type of stuff and mark the containers real clear as to what is in it. And I am not saying what I did to spur me to do this.lol...

[Doc249HMCS]

Don't forget to use alcohol in the radiator, when you are flushing out the gas. The alcohol will enable the gas to combine with the water and making the flushing process much faster.
Hope this helps,
Don

[JohnB]

G'day Tom,
There's a good side to every cloud, at least it wasn't the other way around, water in the fuel system.

Just to follow on, here's another piece of friendly advice.
DON'T LET NIPPERS SEE YOU WORKING ON YOUR CAR

This happened to 2 mates of mine within about 3 months.
1st bloke was washing his car and had his 3 year old helping. Finished the job, went into the house for a beer and came out a few hours later to take the car to get it refuelled before putting it away.
Turned on the ignition and the fuel gauge jumped to full. So got out to open the garage door and his missus happened to come around the cnr and he thanked her for filling the car and got a blank stare in return. Then the little bloke pipes up with, "Not Mummy, me put petrol in car".
Yep, you guessed it he'd filled it up from the hose.
My mate was just lucky he hadn't cranked the engine.

2nd Mate had a '64 Holden that was his pride and joy. He'd got it as a pile of crap and had brought it back to almost show car condition.

He was cutting a little bit of rust out of one of door sills when they had visitors so he goes up the house.
Next day, down to the shed to do some work on his baby and there are dents all over the door he had been working on. Yep his little bloke had given Daddy a hand to panel beat.

[tomsteve]

yes yes yes i know.. i have markers too... right next to the antifreeze. thanks Don for that tip. that was info stored way deep in my brain. boy, John, that is funny.....from my point. i bet your friends laugh about it now. i looked up some pics on a Holden as i never heard of 'em. 1964 is a pretty cool car.

[SNAPPER]

Blue can for Kerosene, Red can for Gas, markers/tape for all other containers. Good luck Tom, have fun. hehehehe
Dean

[Woodbutcher68]

When I was much younger, my brother had seen a delivery man putting heating oil in a pipe at our house. When the delivery man came back a month later, he couldn't figure out he could only get a few gallons in the tank, instead of a few hundred. My brother and his friend had played delivery man with the garden hose.

[mdvt]

I'm in the same mode as Dean....
that's why we paid our hard earned tax dollars to some overly priced Washington branch to come up with the "Color Coded Can Law"....
Another word for the wise......
A friend of mine went to a restaurant for lunch, and ordered a glass of white wine. The bartender poured what he thought was white wine, but was actually a caustic cleaner someone had stored in the wine bottle. No, they didn't remove the labels or write on it. Yes, she drank it. It instantly burned out parts of her throat. Yes she survived. But 4 years of surgery/pain/suffering etc, She finally pulled through.

"Take the extra "seconds" to be careful, your loved ones count on you"
Best,
Mike

[Toolman56]

Goodmorning, hum one thing comes to mind when pouring could you not smell the gas, however i wouldnt worry about it too much, gas is alkichol , with oil both good for the system, i rember on my junky ole garden tractor i mowing the yard, wife at the time called me for lunch, grandson who was 5 , said he go help grandpa, i did not know what he ment , so i said ok, contue to eat, went back out , he went back thats was the rules , fired it up , went down a few feet sputter almost dyed and contue then stared blowing bubblees outa the exhaust, i said what h, and look in tank he dumped a whole bottle of dawn soap in there, well i fired it up and he was inside the picture window he thought it was cool me blowing bubblees and wife was laughing so hard was on the floor, and i came in and says hows the bubble mowing and laugh and left with a dumfond look , it was pretty cool and lotta fun that day, i surprized it even ran,Everett.

[Pajaro]

DHOOOOO!!!!