Using cloth pins to use as a heat sink

[JIPJOBXX]

Well when I was out and about with my old time machine one old sales person I was talking to reminded me of using clothespins as a heat sink to help keep the gas line from getting vapor lock.

Has anyone used a clothespin on there gas lines leading up to the carburetor for this application?

[Dennis Hemingway]

My grandad used them, my dad used them, I use them and our son uses them on our carburated engines. We haven't had a vaper lock problem. (knock on wood)

Dennis:D

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[james curl]

I do not use them and have never had a vapor lock, not even when going to Bonneville and Reno last summer doing 500/600 miles a day.

[Don Coatney]

Voodoo in my opinion.

[oldmopar]

I would think wood would be more of a insulator so I do not see how it would remove the heat from the fuel line

[Jim Saraceno]

Yeah, when I first got my '35 I thought I had vapor lock problems and I put clothespins on the fuel line. As a matter of fact, at one point I pretty much covered the fuel line with clothespins. Come to find out, vapor lock was not my problem.

I've heard three theories as to why they should work.

1. They are heat sinks and will draw the heat away from the fuel line.

2. They are heat shields and will insulate the fuel line from heat.

3. You put the clothespins on the bends to prevent bubbles in the line (that one REALLY made no sense to me.)

I agree with Don, snake oil. Do it if it will help you sleep at night.

[claybill]

fact,- wooden clothespins do not absorb heat from the line. wood insulates, doing nothing. it must be finned metal to dissipate the heat and thereby continue to atract the heat.

does the so called vapor lock happen..afgter engine is shut down..or during operation? like when starting up.

bill

[Arthur1947]

If you want to poor hot coffee into a glass to make iced coffee just put a metal spoon in the glass to absorb the heat so that the glass does not shatter. Something I learned from working at a restaurant years ago. That's my two cents.

Best.

ARTHUR

[eric wissing]

Arthur, That sounds correct. Thanks, I will try it. I am a big iced coffee fan. We could hang spoons all over our gas lines too!! Sort of a wind chime. Eric

[greg g]

my father used to cool too hot coffee by putting a table knife in handle first.

Them chunky handles absorb a lot of heat.

[55 Fargo]

Well when I was out and about with my old time machine one old sales person I was talking to reminded me of using clothespins as a heat sink to help keep the gas line from getting vapor lock.

Has anyone used a clothespin on there gas lines leading up to the carburetor for this application?

Have a few on my fuel line on the 47, was at a car show and shine today, nobody knew what they were for, told em my buddies down south came up with idea:D ........

[Bodacious]

I won't pretend to know how it worked. But years ago when I was the young 'un, an old-timer told me about the clothespin trick. At the time I was taking care of a number of Ford tractors that ran all day in intense summer heat. Most of them had vapor lock problems from time to time. I put some clothes pins on them and never had the problem again. Just left them on year around after that. They were still on there when we sold them a few years later.

[55 Fargo]

I won't pretend to know how it worked. But years ago when I was the young 'un, an old-timer told me about the clothespin trick. At the time I was taking care of a number of Ford tractors that ran all day in intense summer heat. Most of them had vapor lock problems from time to time. I put some clothes pins on them and never had the problem again. Just left them on year around after that. They were still on there when we sold them a few years later.

Clothespins=No more Vapor Lock coincidence, I think not;)