Mmmm - I can smell engine??

[Dave_Snelson]

OK - so I have been busy fixing my exhaust fannimolds - rodding, cleaning, pressure jetting and finally for one of them a surface grind for the riser interface.

But before I painted them, I wanted to dry them thoroughly. Hmm, now how can I do that, I thought. Blowtorch...nah, it takes too long.

Hmm - oven!! Great idea!! So on they went at 160C for half an hour each. But they started to emit a curious smell...a sort of "engine" smell. Now SWMBO was out at work and due back in a couple of hours. And for the purposes of this tale, she has a great sense of smell, especially for things like engines.

So - quickly, close the door to the lounge and open the door to the outside, and turn the cooker hood fan on. Brilliant!! She'll never know...After the deed was done, I even cleaned the oven and changed the catch tray cover.

SWMBO turns up and puts the oven on to make lunch. "Whats that smell? What smell love? I can't smell anything.

There's a smell - a sort of enginey smell, ya know, like the engines on the boat?

Oh really (says me)...I just got to pop out to get something... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Nauti Fox]

Ahh, see...you made the most basic of mistakes YOU CLEANED THE OVEN. Doh! what a giveaway.You really must improve your evasive techniques, this is the simplest of errors and leads to instant distrust. Did you not use linklife on your mum's cooker thereby leaving grease all over it and therefore learning at an early age the art of deception.
Methinks you ought to be getting off to the local library to read up on such matters!

 

[Alistairr]

ROFL!!!!

Brilliant Thursday Joke.

Cheers

 

[LittleShip]

Take it from one who knows, you should have only warmed the items (75 degrees) and you would not have had to clean the oven or do a runner? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[ShipsWoofy]

I must be quite lucky, or maybe my SWMBO is not house proud enough, I dunno /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

She doesn't raise an eyelid when I shove ropes in the washing machine, my socket set in the dishwasher (works really well), seize rope ends on the gas hob etc. etc.

Never cooked anything, apart from the odd spark plug to get an old engine going!

Tell her who's the Boss Dave, yer wimp!

 

[Nauti Fox]

Lucky you did'nt do it round our place, everything and I mean everything gets done at gas 5. Don't know why but it does.
Anyone know of an oven with just the one setting?

 

[Dave_Snelson]

LINKLIFE!! Yes indeed I did. Stank the house out whilst I was stripping my 4-cylinder Honda engine in my bedroom. Happy days!

 

[goochie]

Wot the gunk is LINKLIFE??

 

[Nauti Fox]

It was an ancient herbal remedy to extend the life of yer motorcycle drive chain.
You put the chain on top of a tub of graphitey grease and then put that on a ring on mum's cooker. The chain then sank into the melting grease thus lubricating it, only problem it also lubed the top of the cooker and made the most dreadful smell that you had to try and explain away.

 

[duncan]

ah the nostalgia...........engine blocks in the bath with gunk, 2 stroke exhaust baffles in the sink with hot solutions of caustic soda and regreasing the chain as above every couple of months.

 

[LittleShip]

Dave, now everybody has decided to come clean /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I'll admit that the love of my life never has complained about me washing engine bits in the kitchen sink /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif However when one of my friends came with his wife whilst I was cleaning a cylinder head one time, his wife didnt half have a go at me?? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Just a passing note, if you are cleaning aluminium bits they come up great with bio washing powder/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Nauti Fox]

Just a passing note, if you are cleaning aluminium bits they come up great with bio washing powder/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Wot cycle is this on, and can you spin afterwards?

 

[LittleShip]

Re:Your so dumb !!

"Wot cycle is this on, and can you spin afterwards?"

Everybody know 60 degree white wash Cycle C? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Ships_Cat]

...socket set in the dishwasher (works really well)...

And I guess it works with spanners too - I always wondered what those little basket thingies in the dishwasher were for. Hey Ho it is off to the dishwasher I go.

Thanks

John

 

[Superflid]

I might just give in to her demands for a dishwasher after a top tip like that.

She's never been impressed with "You should have married a dishwasher like I did!"