Watch City Justice Mixture in a 2003 Ural full bend egg shaped Lattice meer.
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Watch City Justice Mixture in a 2003 Ural full bend egg shaped Lattice meer.
HU White Dog in a 1970s smooth straight rough top Charatan's Make (Lane) Perfection Deluxe Extra Large.
HU Out of Africa in a 1975 medium bend sandblasted looking, smooth on the sides yellow Pioneer meer.
1993 Velvet in a Kaywoodie 12B. This came from our friend Bruck and it's a rare treat. Absolute testament to the fact that good tobacco gets better with age.
FVF in a 2014 Savinelli Gaius smooth brown slight bend black acrylic stem and ferrule 320KS author.
C&D Star of the East in a Grabow
Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a 2015 Basil Meadows smooth straight thin shank and stem with an aluminum band Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica.
some homemade Flake curtesy of @Bruck in a Pete Barrel.
Pretty damn good.
HU Sissinghurst iin a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer.
2011 Villiger Maryland No. 333 in a smooth straight 1980s James Upshall Walnut pot.
Gatlinbulier Valley Vanilla in a Dr. Grabow straight, smooth Patriot :pipe:
Close to finishing a second bowl of 2015 Micawber's Pecuniary Delight.
First in a 1970s Caminetto Business #104 saddle billiard.
Second in a 1963 Barling #6106 sandblast taper billiard.
Accompanied by Ka'anapali Maui Mokha coffee kindly supplied by Wayne (@OnePyroTech).
A couple of ladies (my wife's friends) visited this morning but upon leaving they were unable to start their car. I was called upon only after their battery was starting to run down. Being the great mechanic that I am (I can operated a hand-crank window while driving!), I suggested, pressing the gas pedal to the floor for 5 seconds, releasing and then waiting 5 minutes before trying to start again.
Vroom! It started immediately, just as I had said it would (ok, I said 'might'). The ladies looked at me with puzzlement and admiration. I told them to drive at least 20 minutes, if not more, to give the battery a chance to recharge a bit. They thanked me and drove off.
Of course, if my technique failed, I was SOL because their car blocked the driveway and I wouldn't have been able to give them a jump. As far as what holding the pedal actually does, I just repeated what I'd been told 50 years ago. I think it drains excess gas from the engine (flooded) but cars are a little different these days.
It reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law of Prediction;
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
A contemporary Merlin? Not likely as this was my entire bag of trick (singular) but in magic you never tell. Ho-hum.
I'd say you were just lucky. In a modern, fuel injected car pressing the accelerator pedal with the key off does absolutely nothing... save for the (very) off chance that the Throttle Position Sensor is going bad and the brush was in a bad spot on the little carbon resistor strip, thereby putting a cold engine into a false 'clear flood' mode. This is not very likely though. If it's a 'drive by wire' system like most (or all) of the newest vehicles, it even does less than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
If the engine is actually flooded (even the old carbureted engines) you need to hold the pedal to the floor while attempting to start it in order to clear the flood. Pressing the accelerator doesn't drain anything.
Letting it sit for 5 or 10 minutes sometimes does work though as it can allow some of the flood to weep out of the cylinders past the piston rings.
Prolly not smoking anything today. Still in deer camp recovery mode.
MacBaren Virginia #1 in a late '90s half smooth/half etched freehand sitter, medium bend Nielsen Viggo. A bottle of Sprite is my drink.
HU test blend #1 in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer.
Montego Bay in my Arthur Leonard Briar
Bill,Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
You're giving away the secret!
What did you miss about my lack of acumen in this area? :)
Actually it was an old car, first car for the daughter, passed on through her family, ~1995. Would that make a difference and make me smarter?
Thanks for the explanation, detailed and, like Law #3, Magic to me :).
Pete
HU test blend #2 in a 1979 medium bend etch relief meerschaum lined TinderBox Arabesque.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a 1995 with a carburetor but that old, who knows - maybe the throttle position sensor does have a bad spot at closed throttle. A cold engine certainly wouldn't start in clear flood mode since 'clear flood' pretty much shuts off the fuel to the injectors.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
Not far from finishing this bowl of Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a medium bend 2002 MM Legend cob.
HU test blend #3 in a 1975 medium bend sandblasted looking, smooth on the sides yellow Pioneer meer.
Not far from finishing this bowl of Smoker’s Pride Rich Taste in a 1970s medium bend smooth Ben Wade Golden Walnut freehand.
Boswell's Christmas Cookie in a MMcob.
That used to engage the "automatic" choke, which is why we were told to press the pedal to the floor if she didnt catch right away.Quote:
I suggested, pressing the gas pedal to the floor for 5 seconds,
Relaxing after a Wendy's dinner with a bowl of 1970s War Horse bar in an undated fancy designed tall, thin bowl medium bend Waren Zeichen Viennese Coffeehouse Bombay clay with a white acrylic stem. So far so good. I like the taste of it. Wish I had more than a couple bowls worth. I'm curious to see how the prototype matches up. Cherry Coke from Wendy's is my drink. Watching the news, but will go back to work before long.
Full Virginia Flake in a MM Country Gentleman.
Sutliff Medium English in a cob. Has a little bit of everything, but pretty well balanced, except that I'd use less perique were I blending it. Gives it a slightly coppery edge against the burley.
Halftime so I'm out on the balcony enjoying some Nightcap in a MM Legend.
Gawith Hoggarth Louisiana Flake in a Grabow
Earlier, Frog Morton's Cellar in same pipe.
Orcilla Mixture in a GBD 269. Still having trouble with this blend. Very finicky, must be sipped like Plum Cake or it gets cranky.
50-50 Stokkebye Cube Cut Burley and McCranies Red Cake in a Peterson 2006 St. Paddy's. Burley from Brohiba Bruck. BB is a complicated guy and yet, a guy who knows how to party. Thanks Bruce.
Finished smoking Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 1982 black sandblasted paneled slight bend Savinelli flat bottom sitter. Now, it's Standard Tobacco Company’s Prototype War Horse bar in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer.
Just finished a bowl of Plum Pudding , now enjoying a bowl of My Mixture 965
sent from my bag phone
Capstan Blue in my Tsuge Sandblasted Metal Yoroi Gold Tankard.
Great flake in a perfect (IMO) bowl shape for this blend. Plus....love my Tsuge pipes. So much that I have two of them.
Couple minutes away from smoking 2011 Villiger Maryland No. 333 in a 2004 smooth long stem Canadian Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3.
Love the War Horse Bar prototype.
Couple minutes away from smoking Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a 2015 Basil Meadows smooth straight thin shank and stem with an aluminum band Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica. Working and listening to the audio version of Hitler's Last Days.
A few minutes away from trying the new Super Value English Mixture in a full bend black pebble finish 2001 Rinaldo Lithos YY8 Titania Silver Line egg.
Almost finished smoking Jim's Evolving Work Blend in a 2003 Stanwell Golden Danish 56 Rusticated Canadian.
The inaugural Christmas blend of the season: Boswell's Christmas Cookie in a 1936 Kaywoodie :pipe:
A third of the way through this bowl of Rich Dark Flake in a 1984 black sandblasted straight Dunhill Shell 4103 Billiard.