Clothes Pins On Fuel Line

[Chuck Sea/Tac]

Originally Posted by Rock Hornbuckle

Post #6 by Steve S is spot-on. There are many old wives tales still circulating amoung us. Such as "heat rises". First year engineering students would fall for it every time.

OK I'll bite! What do you mean heat doesn't rise? I know there is no such thing as cold. Only the absence of heat,down to -460* or whatever absolute zero is. Is this the same as ford 3 is saying re vapor LOCK vs vapor caused liquid fuel STARVATION? Chuck

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Dog here, so, Brother Chuck, is intelligence just the abscency of idiocy? Or visa-versa Or versa- visa Buster T.

[machine girl]

Were going to use the plastic clothes pins. they come in so many different colors!

[Joe K]

Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON

Chief put a clothespin on a stray cat's tail, he NEVER came back! Bill W.

So where is Chief living now?

Joe K

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by Joe K

So where is Chief living now?

Joe K

Chief passed 11 years ago & is probably up there, laughin' at US as we over- complicate such a SIMPLE car! Bill W.

[Tom Wesenberg]

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Originally Posted by Keith True

I saw that lots when I was a kid,I would ask what they were on there for and somebody would answer,vapor lock.Years later I found I was getting half of the story.The clothespins were on there to keep the tin foil wrapped around the line from unraveling.The foil would fall apart anyway,but the pins would stay.I think a lot of that kind of stuff got instilled into us as little kids and we would take it as gospel.Kind of like the old guy here that says Ford used the old packing crates to make the wood frames for the bodies,he was told that in 1940 and you will never convince him otherwise.

Finally, the rest of the story. Now the clothespins make sense.

[Rock Hornbuckle]

Originally Posted by Chuck Sea/Tac

OK I'll bite! What do you mean heat doesn't rise? I know there is no such thing as cold. Only the absence of heat,down to -460* or whatever absolute zero is. Is this the same as ford 3 is saying re vapor LOCK vs vapor caused liquid fuel STARVATION? Chuck

Heat radiates equally in all directions, as the sun does. The reason we think heat rises is beacuse hot air 'floats' on cold air, because hot air is thinner than cold air. That's why a hot air ballon floats just like an ice cubes (less dense because of expansion) floats on water. It is because of density differences not temperature difference. Otherwise if heat were to rise, then why does colder ice rise?
Thermodynamics 101

[Mike V. Florida]

Thank God I've never seen this before reading about it as I would have insulted the owner by laughing so hard as to cry.

[spdway1]

Originally Posted by machine girl

Were going to use the plastic clothes pins. they come in so many different colors!

I recommend you stay with the WOOD type, LMAO!

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Do "they" still make clothespins?? Plugged in my iron after years of non-use, it stunk SO bad, I cooled it off & "tossed" it! Do "they" iron stuff nowadays?? I hope NOT! Bill W.

[Tom Wesenberg]

Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON

Do "they" still make clothespins?? Plugged in my iron after years of non-use, it stunk SO bad, I cooled it off & "tossed" it! Do "they" iron stuff nowadays?? I hope NOT! Bill W.

I haven't ironed my cloths since high school days, but I still hang them on the line outside. Nothing like a solar drier. It saves on the electric bill so I can buy more Model A parts.

[luckyal]

Some of our old geezers were not rocket scientists bu they got the job done. Another good example !
Thanks, Al

[rons49]

No fuel pump in As, therefore no vapor lock. The problem is IMO, the fuel line can get hot, and Mylar will reflect the heat away. However, the issue is the float bowl boils the fuel & the A will fuel starve. Heat can be transferred from the exhaust pipe to the air maze to the carb. In addition side valvers have the fuel entering the system( carb) right at the hottest spot... the exhaust manifold. Without engine pans heat resonates from the road surface and adds to the issue. With 0 fuel pump pressure gas will boil sooner. #2, these "vapor lock" issues always pop up in the spring. This, of course, is when the weather gets warm and there is all that WINTER gas still in the tank. Recommend, that the winter fuel be drained and new fresh summer fuel be added. Put the old stuff in your newer vehicle that pushes @25 psi into the injectors. Radiators work the same way ... boiling temp rises with pressure @ 3 degrees per lb of psi. Ron

[Tom Wesenberg]

I think we should use clothes pins and magnets taped to the fuel line.

That would really confuse onlookers.

[Terry, NJ]

Originally Posted by machine girl

Were going to use the plastic clothes pins. they come in so many different colors!

Try aluminum if you can still find them, but they only come in one color, grey.
Terry

[Terry, NJ]

Would that be cow magnets? ROFLMAO!

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

I think we should use clothes pins and magnets taped to the fuel line.

That would really confuse onlookers.

[Patrick L.]

Quote:
Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON
Do "they" still make clothespins?? Plugged in my iron after years of non-use, it stunk SO bad, I cooled it off & "tossed" it! Do "they" iron stuff nowadays?? I hope NOT! Bill W.
end quote

Yep, they sure do and we still use them as intended. There are some local laws around here outlawing clothes lines, afterall, I live in NY. I tend to ignore laws that don't suit me. We still irons too, I don't like wrinkles !

[Terry, NJ]

Originally Posted by Patrick L.

Quote:
Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON
Do "they" still make clothespins?? Plugged in my iron after years of non-use, it stunk SO bad, I cooled it off & "tossed" it! Do "they" iron stuff nowadays?? I hope NOT! Bill W.
end quote

Yep, they sure do and we still use them as intended. There are some local laws around here outlawing clothes lines, afterall, I live in NY. I tend to ignore laws that don't suit me. We still irons too, I don't like wrinkles !

So Jersey H.O.A.s outlaw them too! Can you believe it? They want you to use those expensive squiggly light bulbs, but you're not supposed to use a solar drier! Any more than this and I'm getting political, so I'll stop here!
Terry

[Richard Wilson]

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

I think we should use clothes pins and magnets taped to the fuel line.

That would really confuse onlookers.

But not as much as my 6V alternator does.

[marc hildebrant]

My Model A developed vapor lock while I lived in Colorado. When the air temp got to be 100 F in the shad, it would occur.


I just do not understand other people on this forum claim that it can't happen ? They were not in my car....I was !!

Marc