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Originally Posted by intakexhaust View Post
Way back in time while in high school, my science teacher assigned a week to make a carburetor. My mind was thinking way beyond of what he was soon to demonstrate.

So the day came when he ask if anyone made a carb. No one had so he chuckled and simply placed a plastic cup of water on the desk. Placed a straw at the edge and horizontal to the top of the cup and blew across it. What do you know, it atomized! LOL
Hah! My dad used this tool when he was a kid to shrink the fabric on the model airplanes that he would build. One tube in the dope, the other in the mouth and spray away!
I'm thinking those must've been high times.

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