If you have enough of your preferrred priming fuel to heat a Nova or Omnifuel burner enough to burn unadulterated cooking oil, you might as well use the priming fuel for your cooking - you will have enough. Take it from me.
Experience a Shouksmithian moment did we ? (sorry David, a reputation earned, but ill deserved) Spudz
Not at all, but it took rather a lot of panolio wipio to make it work. Pity really, because at 59p/ltr Tesco's rapeseed cooking oil would have been a very cheap fuel.
WTFs going on here? - I feel like I've walked into a cinema halfway through the main feature. If I sit here long enough will I eventually get the plot? How bizarre (shakes head and wanders off...)
Hey, David, Been into the Stella, again, have we????!!! It's as clear as the nose on your face, Lad! Have a Guinness, and it will all become understandable! Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc Mark
Hey Doc, I saw Crestline on a TV programme the other night - American Hotrod - which is shown on satellite over here. The Boyd Coddington team were at Bob Brauder's hotrod garage to collect a Model T (or something...) which they subsequently butchered up - b'stards Crestline looked A-OK though, it's gotta be said. But where were you? - not a stove in sight! Small world, eh...
Evening, David, Hummmm, are you certain it was "our" Crestline? Crestline, California? I'm not familiar with Bob Brauder's hotrod garage, though such an establishment could well exist up here. I'll have to check it out. Our little Crestline Village ain't much, to tell the truth. But, it's quiet, peaceful, and home, at least to us. It would be great if it turned out to actually be "our" Crestline, though, that you saw!! Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc Mark
Hmmm, well it was the "Crestline, up in the mountains of South California" so I took it to be yours. Maybe there's more than one. I definitely didn't dream it, though - it appeared right at the beginning of Episode 1 of the Rat-Rod Build-Off series of programmes. Probably was filmed in 2004/5 at a guess. Looked a very tidy, peaceful sort of place - no rootin', tootin' and shootin' noticeable at all...
Nicely put Ian, I had a similar feeling with a little blowtorch I bought yesterday. If the priming with meths only serves to warm up the kero enough for it then to prime itself with kero (leaving kero rings on my lawn in the process; why not just prime the bloody thing with kero in the first place? Still. Thanks for trying it out for us all! Cheers, Tom
Morning, David, Henry, and All, Well, there is only one Crestline in the mountains of Southern California, at least I certainly don't know of another. So, it must have been our place! It IS a tidy little Village, and a fine place to hang your hat. We do have a fearsome squirrel population, though, and they must be watched, at all times!! Squirrel stomping, however, was outlawed, by decree, after events earlier this year led to massive protests of said stomping. However, those of us who live in the forests, up above Crestline Village, if we're careful and quiet about it, can continue stomping all we'd like!!! And, remember my most successful squirrel exterminator? Not long ago, I left the toilet seat up, something which I almost never do, and our "pet" flying squirrel got into the house and drowned in the toilet!!!! Poor little thing! She's still in the freezer, even as I type this.... If either of you are ever "in the neighborhood", please give us a call, and drop by for a visit! I'll show you my "squirrel-cicle"!!! Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc Mark
... takes it out now and then and kicks it around the house - doesn't jump out of the way like a live one.
Hey, Ian, Henry, JC, and All, Actually, though I like all the suggestions as to "why" I have a squirrel in the freezer, the simple truth is that flying squirrels are not common around here. The Southern end of their normal territory is in the South Sierra, which lies across the Mojave Desert from here, and is a VERY long ways off!! So, to have had one in our cedar birdhouse for the past two years, is sometime of an oddment. I thought that the Forest Service might want to mount this one, and add it to their small museum, which is only a few miles from us. So far, I've not had the time (read that as "remembered") to call them and ask!! Of course, that doesn't explain the complete raccoon hide that I have in the freezer, as well...... but that will be a story for another time!!! (Some of you may remember how "Rocky" came to live in our freezer, but for those that don't, I'll tell the story later!) Take care, and thanks for all the suggestions and laughs, Guys!! God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc Mark
If and whenever I can get down to California, I could probably sneak a flying squirrel through customs in my pocket for you Doc! Tons of the vemin here, and they mess up the attic. It would live one of course(why does this stimulate some memory of a Ray Stevens song??? ) so you can throw the frozen corpse out and return your freezer to active food storage duty instead of the mammal morgue! Freezers are for storing bits and pieces of dead animal! Can't quite explain why I still have a whole Otter in mine though. I reckon someday I'll retrieve, thaw and prepare the pelt for the fur auction house.
