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Title: Re: Bartender, Cut Me Off!
Post by: Weedensteam on March 02, 2020, 09:26:12 pm
Seems like alcohol can get you into trouble whether you are burning it or drinking it.
Title: Re: Bartender, Cut Me Off!
Post by: RedRyder on March 02, 2020, 05:16:06 pm
I find a silicone rubber tube about a foot long on the vent tube will evacuate alcohol fumes and dribbles far enough away to avoid extra unintended combustion!
Title: Re: Bartender, Cut Me Off!
Post by: Nick on March 01, 2020, 10:23:51 am
Quote from: Dr.Rev.DelmarMacReady on March 01, 2020, 09:35:17 am
That sir is why I love my Bix burners.

Haha I switched to the Bix burner for the second run. Can you imagine being a little kid and watching your prized toy engine go up in flames  :o :o
Title: Re: Bartender, Cut Me Off!
Post by: Dr.Rev.DelmarMacReady on March 01, 2020, 09:35:17 am
That sir is why I love my Bix burners.
Title: Re: Bartender, Cut Me Off!
Post by: oilfield_steam on March 01, 2020, 08:10:39 am
One for you, two for me
One for you, two for me
Title: Re: Bartender, Cut Me Off!
Post by: Nick on March 01, 2020, 07:30:46 am
My other 135/2 burners have always worked fine... not this one!  :D

Kind of hard to grab it out of the engine when the vent is squirting flaming alcohol on your hand  :D

I always run them with the firebox door open as a lot of fumes come out that vent and my first 135/2 had lost all its paint around the firebox door hole and was rusty from it.
Title: Re: Bartender, Cut Me Off!
Post by: St Paul Steam on March 01, 2020, 05:55:18 am
I have several burn spots in my coach & floor from a Fleischman 135/2 from a very dangerous spirit burner, I tried several different ways to get it to perform as designed....from half full to barely anything in it....same eventual result, it would at some point erupt in a ball of flame ! (the vent was not plugged)
Title: Re: Bartender, Cut Me Off!
Post by: Nuvolari on March 01, 2020, 02:44:15 am
this you get when there is to much alcohol involved…
Title: Bartender, Cut Me Off!
Post by: Nick on February 29, 2020, 11:16:29 pm
Bartender, you better take the Everclear away from me...

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