Don't tell me you found out the hard way? Boy, you MN people are primitive! Me Minnflyer, Me Make Fire Burn Plane, Me Use Acetone, Me Catch Fire!!!!

Yes- if you look at the ingredients of fuel injector or carb cleaner it has acetone as one of its ingredients. I always put a little in the gas tank in my car a few times a year, it keeps my injectors clean and It improves my mpg, not to mention- it gives me a tad more power when I step on the gas.


Pete

Not us... I was giving that tidbit to someone in Florida - Where they can't even figure out how to fill out a voting ballot

Yes, well your talking to the guy who once lived in Florida. I had a fabulous idea of using gas to get rid of a Fire Ant problem my mother had about 15 years ago, when she once owned a house down there. She was afraid to mow the weed grass for fear she'd get bitten.

So I told her that I'd take care of it.

I got the gas down the hole, and waited about 2 minutes before I used my lighter. BOOM!!!

I forgot that Ants make tunnels, and I was supposed to use Kerorosene not gas. Me and the Ants were airborne, and all I saw was sky, sand and ants. I landed flat on my back, my hair and eyebrows were singed off and they smoldered for a while.

Me See Ant, Me Bring Gas, Me Fire God, Me Need Fire Department!

My wife still reminds me of that incident from time to time just to razz me and get my goat. She says she's dumbfounded that I hadn't Darwined myself yet.


Pete

ROFL!

I figured I'd Man Up on that great exploit of mine. I guess I am a little gifted and on the short bus to Charm School. Man you should have seen that crater I had to fill in! A few of my neighbors came over and asked if I was all right. I was embarrassed when they asked me about what happened. I couldn't think of a good lie at the time.


Pete

Hey Oberst. I amwaiting for Minnflyer to ask if that killed the ants! I am the one that don't know how to vote in Fl. batdog

Yes, but after that I never did that again. But on top of it all my mother decided to nag me out over it after she found I was alright. " Your not leaving that hole out there!" Never mind the fact it almost killed me and I smelled of burnt hair. Glad I wasn't married yet or had met my current wife, then they would have tag teamed me. But that would have been after my wife was done laughing herself to death.


Boy, with out hair my skin felt sooo smooth.


But that's OK, my mother freaked one evening when she saw a King Snake and she thought it was a Coral. I ran out in the back yard in my underpants and only my cowboy kickers on and got a dirt shovel to go after it. When I saw what it was ( A king Snake) I quickly left it alone. I don't remember the saying because it was long ago, " Red yellow and black, I'd better stay back" for Coral?

But if a policeman caught me the way I was dressed that night with a shovel in my hand, I would have been even more embarrassed. I would have had a tough time explaining that one. Ohn- honnest Osifer, Ies not bin drinking!


Pete

Yeah, for a coral snake:

"Red touch yella, kill a fella,
red touch black, friend of Jack."

I have a simplier one...

Snake! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, it's Fishing Season now. All I see is New Jersey and Pennsylvania licence plates up here now! I think I'd better dig a fox hole because us Pulaski folks think we're being invaded!

I just had a little talk with my wife how we should move once our horse dies. I was hoping to move down south.

Then she reminded me that at least when I fly my seaplanes, I don't have to worry about something eating my plane or me if I have to go in the water for anything. I can see it now, I get my engine tuned and running, I walk up to the shore with my Neptune then "CHOMP!"

I can now see the New AMA Headline now. "Man gets eaten by alligator, model plane survives unharmed. Police quotes as saying, " All that was left of his remains was his arm and hand on a transmitter near the shore." Next of kin and name of person has not been notified until his identification is later revealed. News at 11!"

We do have Water Snakes (not poisonous, but aggressive) in a the swamp near my new club in Phoenix, NY. Part of the Cicero Swamp is not too far from the runway. I was told twice flying there as a guest not to fly over that certain part because if my plane goes in the swamp, I was told to leave it there. Not only Water Snakes tend to live there, but it's Leach City and Mosquito Heaven there as well. ( I'm not talking about the WWII Aircraft either.)

So to tell you the truth, I can stand the cold weather a little longer than dealing with poisonous creatures down south. It's nice up here except for the snow, politics and taxes.


Wait a minute... wasn't this topic about how to remove old covering? Oh boy- I did it again. Sorry!


Pete