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Certainly an interesting writing style: >Remove the radiator filler cap if the engine is cold. (Opening the cap with the engine hot can get you badly burned. T
by ryanlol 11y ago
Certainly an interesting writing style:
>Remove the radiator filler cap if the engine is cold. (Opening the cap with the engine hot can get you badly burned. The fluid can start to boil once the pressure is relieved and spray all over you. The fluid will be quite painful resulting in first and second-degree burns. It's not likely to be disfiguring but if you accidentally burn yourself, you can very well go ahead with your plan to escape however your mind might be focused entirely upon the pain and not upon escape. With the engine cold you don't have to worry about getting burned.)
That certainly seems like a rather elaborate way of explaining that touching hot things burns.
- dfox 11y agoProblem is not in that the cap might be hot in itself (it even might not be), but that the action of removing the cap will relieve the pressure inside the coolant plumbing and as boiling point of fluids in dependent on pressure, the super-heated coolant will boil off violently. Few years ago when I was changing thermostat on my car, the thermostat itself was not significantly hot in itself, but other parts of the coolant circuit apparently were, which after unscrewing the thermostat caused minor case of said violent boil-off. I didn't get burned mostly because I was standing to the side (as to reach to the screws that are obviously perpendicular to the flange which they hold).
- ryanlol 11y agoThat's not exactly what I was referring to, although I wasn't being very clear. This is the part I was talking about: > The fluid will be quite painful resulting in first and second-degree burns. It's not likely to be disfiguring but if you accidentally burn yourself, you can very well go ahead with your plan to escape however your mind might be focused entirely upon the pain and not upon escape. Author seems to be overly focused on the results of such a burn.
- morganvachon 11y agoI definitely got what you are saying, and as I read the article I was fighting the urge to proofread it and email the corrections to the author. Given the rambling nature and random paranoia, I get the feeling such corrections wouldn't be warmly received.
- kragen 11y agoPeople get steam-scalded by car radiators all the time, even though they know that "touching hot things burns."
- nickpsecurity 11y agoVery true. We warn people out here. My take is, if they know anything at all about it, that they intuitively think it will be OK when the car is off. They don't realize that the radiator keeps doing its thing for a while. I've had to shout to plenty of people "No, don't touch that shit! Wait an hour or two!" It's the "little" things people rarely thing about that get them the most.