09-28-2018, 10:05 PM
Excellent advice above. I will simply add the usual cbelt3 disaster story to indicate why you should NEVER OPEN THE RADIATOR CAP until it's cool.
[spoiler=OK, I warned you. Epic tale of stupidity, pain, hospital visit, and amusement enclosed..]
We owned an '82 Olds 98. Land Yacht, huuge V8 engine. Mrs. cbelt3 loved it, driving it gave her her tag line "I was born to drive a big car fast in the left lane." And one summer day we drove our 2 year old daughter to my inlaws house, about a 3 hour trip. And sure enough, the Oldsmobile started overheating (thermostat was the culprit). Stopped a few times to add water to the overflow tank so it would not run dry, and let it cool down.
And once we arrived at the house, my wife and daughter went inside. I turned on the hose (nice cold well water) and watered down the hissing radiator. And noticed that the radiator cap was wobbling. Hmmm. I took a rag and reached over to tighten it and.. WHOOSH ! The cap failed, soaring past my head. And a gout of green superheated steam/ethlyene glycol erupted straight at my face at incredible speed. I closed my eyes and mouth and started moving away and it just scorched me, dripping down into my shirt.
I grabbed the hose and flooded my head and face and upper body with 50 degree well water. And then the pain it me, and I started screaming. Ho leeeee.... I'd never had a burn that bad.
An ambulance was called. The EMT's congratulated me on using the water to treat the area. The ER doc surveyed the injury and prescribed a lotion to help keep the mostly first degree, some second degree, and only a couple of small patches of third degree burned areas from getting infected. And properly antibioticized, dosed with pain medication, and lotioned up with this magic stuff, my wife took me home.
Recovery took a week or so. And the lotion, as it happens, contained silver (anti bacteria I assume). And when it was exposed to UV from the sun, it turned blue and smelled kind of bad.
So for my recovery period, my daughter's name for me was "Papa Stinky Smurf".
miley-laughing001:
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[spoiler=OK, I warned you. Epic tale of stupidity, pain, hospital visit, and amusement enclosed..]
We owned an '82 Olds 98. Land Yacht, huuge V8 engine. Mrs. cbelt3 loved it, driving it gave her her tag line "I was born to drive a big car fast in the left lane." And one summer day we drove our 2 year old daughter to my inlaws house, about a 3 hour trip. And sure enough, the Oldsmobile started overheating (thermostat was the culprit). Stopped a few times to add water to the overflow tank so it would not run dry, and let it cool down.
And once we arrived at the house, my wife and daughter went inside. I turned on the hose (nice cold well water) and watered down the hissing radiator. And noticed that the radiator cap was wobbling. Hmmm. I took a rag and reached over to tighten it and.. WHOOSH ! The cap failed, soaring past my head. And a gout of green superheated steam/ethlyene glycol erupted straight at my face at incredible speed. I closed my eyes and mouth and started moving away and it just scorched me, dripping down into my shirt.
I grabbed the hose and flooded my head and face and upper body with 50 degree well water. And then the pain it me, and I started screaming. Ho leeeee.... I'd never had a burn that bad.
An ambulance was called. The EMT's congratulated me on using the water to treat the area. The ER doc surveyed the injury and prescribed a lotion to help keep the mostly first degree, some second degree, and only a couple of small patches of third degree burned areas from getting infected. And properly antibioticized, dosed with pain medication, and lotioned up with this magic stuff, my wife took me home.
Recovery took a week or so. And the lotion, as it happens, contained silver (anti bacteria I assume). And when it was exposed to UV from the sun, it turned blue and smelled kind of bad.
So for my recovery period, my daughter's name for me was "Papa Stinky Smurf".
miley-laughing001:[/spoiler]