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Originally posted by Matt167
I light the garbage with a tiny amount of gasoline, 2 stroke gas, I put it in a pump oiling can and put it on newspaper then light the part of the newspaper that's not soaked in gas and run. I also use a pump oil can for squirting gas into the carbs of engines, like my lawnmowers or my '67 Falcon 1 time when it just woulden't start because it had sat in the cold weather for a month without starting. I have never been cought on fire due to a gas explosion but, an alchahol accident, yes, I was working in chem class, we were firing off spud guns we had just made with alchahol, my gun was 6" and was a 2" pvc pipe with a spray can top jabbed on the back, it was originally a chemical candel so it had a spray can top on each end originally, I decided to put the second top on loosely so it would shoot the top off, little did I know, the 1st top at the back, had ridden loose from the first exposion and, it blew out the wrong way, right at me. my shirt and hand and the floor and my shoe were on fire but, as the alchahol burns at a low tempurture and it was 75% alchahol, it actully burned ontop of my skin rather than burn my skin itself. I did get a very very slight burn on my hand, but it was so minor, I didn't even worry about it.

Wow! Thats the kind of information that helps and prevent accidents from happening. Thanks to everyone for the information and I willn't use gas.
I do have 5hp compressor with and eighty gallon tank maintaining 15cfm @ 90 psi with 175lb tank pressure. I don't want to do the car just the underneath. I just have a problem putting new or rebuilt parts on grease rust and dirt, even if I am only mocking up the car before I take it apart again for the body and paint man.
Randy, I have found out threw first hand experience, that this is a very humblings site in a good way.