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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:02:41 -0500
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Subject: Re: Ether - Motor Priming Grade
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Not an option....lived in a third floor apartment in the inner
city...happiness was a warm battery and 10 mL of diethyl ether.
J. William Hirzy, Ph.D.
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Back in the day, when I worked in the lab and had access and drove a 1959
Volvo in the frigid midwestern winter, parking on the street, I would take
the battery out, bring it inside to keep warm for the next morning, then
re-install it, pour about 10 mL of diethyl ether onto the strangely
vertical carbeurator air filter, and that baby fired right up every
day--no problem
Does this mean you didnt have what all the rest of us had: an electric
wire and plug hanging out the front grill connected to a block warmer? Of
course and extension cord reaching to the street could be a problem.
Monona
Not an option....lived in a third floor
apartment in the inner city...happiness was a warm battery and 10 mL of
diethyl ether.
J. William Hirzy, Ph.D.
Chemist In Residence
Phone: 202-885-1780
ACTSNYC**At_Symbol_Here**CS.COM
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Back in the day, when I worked in the lab
and had access and drove a 1959 Volvo in the frigid midwestern winter,
parking on the street, I would take the battery out, bring it inside to
keep warm for the next morning, then re-install it, pour about 10 mL of
diethyl ether onto the strangely vertical carbeurator air filter, and that
baby fired right up every day--no problem
Does this mean you didnt have what all the rest of us had: an electric
wire and plug hanging out the front grill connected to a block warmer?
Of course and extension cord reaching to the street could be a problem.
Monona
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