Caution may cause drink thur nose or wet keyboard.

[Raynman]

So I'm thinking I need to rebuild a coil because it's not hitting well. I had a coil pop loose and stay against the post for a while before getting anemic. I thought it may be the problem again. So I open it up look at the firing pin and decide to give it a rub with a metal file put it back together BOOM it hit like Ali in his prime. Glad to know it was only that. I have a few drops left in the bottle and decide it's time to change fluids. Open the bottle, blow through the RM2 a couple of times, pull the bottle with a paper towel behind the tube to keep what's left out of the Reo. I pour out the juice and it's off to the garage to shoot a little compressed air into the bottle and get it nice and clean for my next juice. Holding it between the thumb and fore finger I shoot 90 pounds of air into the bottle. Whoosh ping off the garage door, ping off the storage shelf, plop straight into the used motor oil still in the catch pan that wasn't emptied the last time I used it. DOH! I rush to the catch pan to see it half full of oil and sinking fast. The bottle is looking at me saying so what are you going to do idiot let me flounder or get me out of here. I did chose to get it out. I wiped it off took it inside and rinsed it out still had oil all over the inside, used dish soap and a Q-tip for the most part it is now clean I will do this a couple more time before using that bottle. Pulled out a new bottle did my refill and rewicking once again good to go. I'm not usually one to brag about my own stupidity but just for the record and for new Reonauts. It might be a good idea to keep a finger under the bottom of the bottle when forcing high pressure air into it to clean out old juice.

I take no responsibility for wet keyboards you were warned. I'm still laughing about it myself

 

[JC Okie]

The say stay away from oils when you're making juices.....maybe this is what they mean....hmmmm.

 

[BardicDruid]

At least you had the garage door down, I have a couple of small parts still missing somewhere in the neighborhood.

 

[nerak]

My ADD sometimes gets the better of me and I do things that don't quite end up working the right way.

Even at 60 I will still do something that pops into my head as a good idea and face the consequences!

Don't do anything but laugh at what you did. I laughed with you!

Oh, BTW filing your firing tip with a dremel and sandpaper wheel makes pretty little metal filings fly! But the REO does work much better!

 

[CATastrophe]

This so makes me think of Ralphie in A Christmas Story: You'll shoot your eye out! So you're a pinball bottle wizard now? How many points did you rack up before getting mired in the oil pit?


Never thought to use compressed air on the bottle and that seems to be a good thing! A drip of dish soap and rinsing do the trick for me. I just shake them out a bit to get stray water drops out of the insides and call it good.

 

[oldbroad]

Well, as long as we're confessing...
the other day I was downstairs in the lounge playing Euchre...my coffee got cold, so i went to the "cafe" in the next room , put it in the microwave, then went to the sink to fill the carafe with water to make another pot , when I turned toward the microwave i saw billows of smoke pouring out of the microwave. I ran to it and yanked out the mug, unplugged the microwave while the other people came out of the lounge to see what was on fire, grabbed the mug, rushed to the sink, trying to explain what happened.

One of the women looked at my mug and said," don't you know you can't put a travel mug in the microwave?!"

( and it had a thick rubber bottom that melted and disintergrated)

The rooms filled with old folks ready to run...or wheel...for their lives.

 

[Mudflap]

I'll bet it threads on to the cap very easily now.

 

[element77]

Well, as long as we're confessing...

The rooms filled with old folks ready to run...or wheel...for their lives.

I was warned! That made me lose it, Wheel for your lives!!!!!!

 

[_more_]

Bottles all in a row. I refill at the kitchen table. I do all my bottles at once usually six of them. I knocked one over (after i filled them all) went to grab it quick and yep it was like bowling pins and my hand was the ball. smh

Don't even ask how many times my REOs get dropped

Hello my name is oops

 

[Matthee]

Hilarious. Kay, Kay! HRH's hairdryer works well enough after a water wash, and is safer.