On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 05:27:41 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 7:10:27 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:11:42 -0400, micky
wrote:
Somewhere in my engine (that is, my car's engine), I have a vacuum leak,
probably, and I can't find it and it seems a smoke machine is the most
reliable way to find it.

Machines sell for $100 to $900, and I posted a video on how to make one
for about $30.

Another video suggested using a vape pen!

Looked at 5 vape webpages and only one item on one page didn't require
buying the pen and the liquid separately**, usually totally separately,
from different sources. Fortunately, the one exception was also the
cheapest.

Just $11 plus 1.30 excise tax plus $13 shipping, about $25.

**Not counting disposable fruit-flavored, which are illegal to sell in
Maryland. Not by mail or in person.



The email said it would be USPS Priority Mail and pointed out that
delivery would have to be IN PERSON signed for by someone over 21 years
of age.

My upstairs doorbell is broken and I can't hear the downstairs doorbell.

Do you think the mailman will leave the package without a signature, or
will I have to wait to the next day or pick it up at the post office?
Bum a cigarette off someone.
I actually have the tool you need, a stethoscope with a long probe
that will find any kind of air leak like that but you are a little too
far away to borrow it.

If you're talking about the mechanic kind, with a long steel probe,
Micky can find them for $10 or less at auto parts stores, I think
Harbor Freight has them. But I've never heard of them being useful
for finding a vacuum leak.

This is a hollow tube and a slight movement of "atmosphere" sounds
like a hurricane. We used it to find air leaks on old type of disk
drive back in the olden days.