I wish we had normalized this system for other industries besides aviation.
You can find drunk airmen just about anywhere, brother. They will break anything you need broke, so don’t think that it’s just limited to aviation.
On a slightly more serious note, but still kinda not, I have seen huffers on sale on government surplus sites. You could probably keep your eyes open for one of those and rig it for your machines. (I think it’s just a V8 engine after all.) You could just keep it in your house all toasty by the fire for when you need it.
We mainly used them as makeshift blast shields, but they do actually start engines. They probably wouldn’t circulate any other fluids that I am aware of.
(It has been a few years since I did any of that stuff, so details have probably changed.)
Hey a drunk (former) airman almost burned down my last job because he caught some solvent on fire and thought he could toss it on the ground and stomp it out.
You can find drunk airmen just about anywhere, brother. They will break anything you need broke, so don’t think that it’s just limited to aviation.
On a slightly more serious note, but still kinda not, I have seen huffers on sale on government surplus sites. You could probably keep your eyes open for one of those and rig it for your machines. (I think it’s just a V8 engine after all.) You could just keep it in your house all toasty by the fire for when you need it.
We mainly used them as makeshift blast shields, but they do actually start engines. They probably wouldn’t circulate any other fluids that I am aware of.
(It has been a few years since I did any of that stuff, so details have probably changed.)
Hey a drunk (former) airman almost burned down my last job because he caught some solvent on fire and thought he could toss it on the ground and stomp it out.
It did not work.