cleaning with starter fluid

[longbow]

Guy at the spencer walmart used starter fluid to clean some tar off the side of his buick. Sprayed it, cleaned it and sprayed it again. His lady came over to inspect it. She was smoking and set it and the rag on the parking lot on fire.

I was amazed at how fast the paint was damaged and the plastic melted. He put the fire out with a polar pop.

He should have left it to burn.....

 

[Suprtek]

That would have been a great video to send to PeopleOfWalmart.com

 

[AZ Hunter]

 

[db1959]

I've always found ether to be an excellent household cleaner too.

 

[Ogre]

I have used brake cleaner for similar tasks with much success. no kidding...

 

[eldirector]

Awesome. In a sad kinda of way.

I enjoy watching Darwin Award nominees smoke while at the gas pump. From a safe distance, of course.

 

[AmericanBob]

I have used brake cleaner for similar tasks with much success. no kidding...

brake cleaner and carb cleaner are both great for cleaning cosmoline and killing wasps and hornets.

 

[Leadeye]

I've used naptha to do that job, I would think ether would be rough on the paint and hard to keep from evaporating too fast.

 

[85t5mcss]

I use brake cleaner and starting fluid (ether) for quite a few things, but to remove bugs and tar from paint just use WD40, everbody knows that.

Wheres the pics?

 

[Loar]

Last week I had some sort of gunk on my hands and used gas to get it off. It's the sort of thing I saw my Dad do hundreds of times growing up but I hadn't done it in at least 20 years. Brought back a lot of memories of the stuff we used to do before we thought about the environmental and safety implications of every decision.

 

[SmileDocHill]

Last week I had some sort of gunk on my hands and used gas to get it off. It's the sort of thing I saw my Dad do hundreds of times growing up but I hadn't done it in at least 20 years. Brought back a lot of memories of the stuff we used to do before we thought about the environmental and safety implications of every decision.

Did you do that yesterday? Because today it is really hot outside, thanks a lot!

 

[snowman46919]

Awesome. In a sad kinda of way.

I enjoy watching Darwin Award nominees smoke while at the gas pump. From a safe distance, of course.

Gas smothers cigarettes, most mechanics I know smoke and work in closed environments (however they go outside to light up), and finally you have seen too many movies.

 

[eldirector]

Gas smothers cigarettes, most mechanics I know smoke and work in closed environments (however they go outside to light up), and finally you have seen too many movies.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6VHqFgOA6I[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH_5qgnRQck[/ame]

I've also used gas a little gas and a cigarette to get my burn barrel going. Sure, liquid gas may smother a flame, but get anywhere close to stoichiometry, and WHOOSH.

 

[snowman46919]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6VHqFgOA6I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH_5qgnRQck

I've also used gas a little gas and a cigarette to get my burn barrel going. Sure, liquid gas may smother a flame, but get anywhere close to stoichiometry, and WHOOSH.

both cases it looks like a flame was introduced which was my parenthetical statement that they abstained from the accelerrant rich environment to light up. Flash point of gasoline is about 50 degrees with an ignition temperature of 495, google fu tells me a cherry on a square will hit 700 degrees just sitting there and around 1200 degrees while being pulled on. The other important part of the equation is the fuel to air mixture which is ideally 15:1. I am not saying it never happens, but the coup de grâce is that a burning ember on a cigarette although has the heat it does not have the energy to ignite vapors or liquid gasoline. I am no where near a professional just interpreting some research I found on the internet haha.

here is an article for a complete reversal what I just read elsewhere it will ignite