[SEL] Stuck Piston Rings

[Ed stoller]

I think you are right. I would hate to have to go hungry.

Ed Stoller
New Fairfield, CT
http://home.earthlink.net/~edstoller/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim French" <fbi at insulate.co.uk>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Stuck Piston Rings


> Hi Ed
>
> A word of advice from one on the same team as your wife (last time I
> went to a movie I came home to find an R&V on the kitchen table, being
> pinstriped) - beware of the SMELL when cooking engine parts.  It might
> give you away!  Again, I'm speaking from experience here, when the head
> from a Petter Atomic had some overnight heat treatment in my Aga
> cooker.  It was some days before the smell and taint went.
> So just bear in mind that your idea of "fun" might not be quite the same
> as Mrs Stoller's.
> Hope this helps,
> Dolly
>
> Ed stoller wrote:
>> Thank you Mark and JB.
>>
>> The piston is in a covered can with the home brew P oil inside this time.
>> Next time my wife goes to a movie, I try cooking it on her new stove. 
>> Lets
>> hope I don't get caught.  If that don't work, I will try the torch inside
>> the piston. I thought of turning the carbon to co2 with the torch, but 
>> did
>> not want to risk changing the temper of the rings.
>>
>> This hobby is really fun when we do things we never did before.
>>
>> Ed Stoller
>>
>
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> Jim French
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