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you can't make this stuff up...
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you can't make this stuff up...
About 5 years ago, my Wife and I bought a "faux" fireplace. She actually found it on WalMart's website.
It uses cans of gel fuel that get placed behind a "faux cement log"... well... recently, my Wife switched the brand of gel fuel. She likes it, because it "smells better" than the other kind... and she's VERY sensitive to chemical/petroleum type odors. She had the fireplace lit this afternoon, while I was out bench running my Speed Contest engine on the deck... I came in after a rather frustrating session, washed the Sig Champion 25 off my hands... and went downstairs into my workshop. Hmmm.. I could still smell glow fuel... I must have gotten some on my sweatshirt.. oh well... A while later, I went back upstairs.. and you'd swear that I was running the engine in the living room! The gel fuel smells exactly like glow fuel!! We've been using the new fuel since last Fall.. and I never made the connection, because I hadn't run an engine since early last year.
So.. now I'll be able to run my engines in my workshop.. (when she's not home.. ) and she won't suspect a thing!!
It uses cans of gel fuel that get placed behind a "faux cement log"... well... recently, my Wife switched the brand of gel fuel. She likes it, because it "smells better" than the other kind... and she's VERY sensitive to chemical/petroleum type odors. She had the fireplace lit this afternoon, while I was out bench running my Speed Contest engine on the deck... I came in after a rather frustrating session, washed the Sig Champion 25 off my hands... and went downstairs into my workshop. Hmmm.. I could still smell glow fuel... I must have gotten some on my sweatshirt.. oh well... A while later, I went back upstairs.. and you'd swear that I was running the engine in the living room! The gel fuel smells exactly like glow fuel!! We've been using the new fuel since last Fall.. and I never made the connection, because I hadn't run an engine since early last year.
So.. now I'll be able to run my engines in my workshop.. (when she's not home.. ) and she won't suspect a thing!!
Re: you can't make this stuff up...
Be careful!
Women have noses like blood hounds. My wife is coming home from Arkansas tomorrow and the first thing out of her mouth as she opens the door will be "what's that smell"
Never fails...
So, you haven't run an engine in over a year? Sounds like it's time for a CEF intervention!
Women have noses like blood hounds. My wife is coming home from Arkansas tomorrow and the first thing out of her mouth as she opens the door will be "what's that smell"
Never fails...
So, you haven't run an engine in over a year? Sounds like it's time for a CEF intervention!
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Re: you can't make this stuff up...
I hear you, my wife totally flips and can smell thinner a mile away! I'll never forget the time she went shopping and was gonna be gone for several hours and I needed to spray some silver base coats, she came home after 20 minutes (she forgot something) and the whole house was filled with overspray, I normally paint outside in garage but thought I'd have time to air it out...guess not.
todays paint project, wife was gone...and I sprayed in the garage:
todays paint project, wife was gone...and I sprayed in the garage:
Re: you can't make this stuff up...
That's a nice Blue... I was trying to guess the vehicle in the reflection, but I can't make it out. I'll just call it a "Shoplight X500"
Re: you can't make this stuff up...
Maybe a '69 Duster?
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Re: you can't make this stuff up...
I'd take a '69 anything, it's the o'l Aurora.
With a lot of prep work and a whole lot of wet sanding, you can get pretty fair results with a spray can!
With a lot of prep work and a whole lot of wet sanding, you can get pretty fair results with a spray can!
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