Rex wrote:

On Feb 10, 12:08 pm, "Pete C." wrote:
Karl Townsend wrote:

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:14:24 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote:

Karl Townsend wrote:

Thanks everybody, I'll heat it to where a spritz of wd40 smokes. I
don't know this temp - maybe 400.

Lucky for me its -17 outside so i got a good freezer for the flywheel.

Karl

Really, that doesn't matter much. It's temperature differential that
matters, so -17F only adds 86F to the differential vs. 65F room temp.
The heating is what matters, unless you have LN2 handy to get some real
negative temps.

Dang, didn't get any sympathy for you. This cold snap is just plain
awful.

Karl

It's been down to single digits at night here in hot sunny Texas, I'm
freezing my butt off too.

Years ago when I was an outside salesman for an auto parts warehouse,
I called on a machine shop/store. This was a very old business, owned
by a couple of crusty, grouchy old machinists.
I stepped out the backdoor, then came back in and told one of them
"Hey, do you know you have a fire out here??!!!!"
He grinned and said "I did that". He had an old cardboard box, threw
in some additional carboard scraps, dropped a ring gear in it and set
it on fire. then he went back inside to work on another job.
Once the fire burned down, he grabbed the ring gear with some pliers
and dropped it on the waiting flywheel

So the short answer to how much heat: not very much


So, you've never read Fahrenheit 451?


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