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[cabbitzilla]

Got all worked up for the court date today... lawyer didn't show. I'm figuring they'd gone back and checked Rose Shanis/Lendmark's numbers, realized they'd been lied to by their own client, and decided to not show rather than admit they'd been had. Bastiches. I was all prepped for a world class beatdown, too.

The Judge's disgust towards a prosecuting attorney that no-shows was evident. Without reviewing -any- of the information on the case, he tossed out the judgement that'd been issued last month, then lectured the -other- lawyers present about manners and professional etiquette. While it was a bit frustrating that the Law Offices of Michael Fradkin couldn't be bothered to show up or notify the court of their intent, it was refreshing to be treated so cordially. Kudos to the Judge, who's name will be mentioned as soon as I remember what it was. *sigh* Little grey cells are not what they once were, don'tcha know...

And we now have heat again. For those that didn't get the 'pleasure' of hearing me whine about it, we ran out of fuel oil Saturday morning. Today was the first any of the 16 companies that service this area could get a shipment in. Fortunately for all, I've got priming the furnace down to a science.The longest part of it was finding my wrench.

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Ummm .... curious...

[snowpony.livejournal.com]

You'll have to forgive me on this one; but central heating isn't something we have over here so... what does 'priming the furnace' mean and what do you have to do? Lame question I know but it was always something I've heard and never bothered to find out about.

Re: Ummm .... curious...

[m-masque.livejournal.com]

Ellie has a furnace that burns fuel oil, similar to diesel fuel or kerosene. When the furnace runs out of fuel, all that remains is air in the fuel line and whatever mechanism the furnace uses as a fuel pump. Unlike natural gas or propane, that uses a fuel that's under pressure in its container, liquid fuel is not or, at best, under what bit of pressure gravity will provide depending on how the fuel line is installed into the fuel tank. To get the pump to take fuel from the tank and give it to the furnace, you have to get rid of the air.

That's what priming the pump does. How it's done also depends on the type of pump used, but most often requires putting a small amount of fuel directly into the pump so that it can operate and thus draft (draw) fuel from the tank. The pump usually cannot just operate and create enough vacuum to pull the fuel in; adding some fuel directly to it gives something for the vanes, impeller or other type of mechanism to work against, pressurizing that fuel and creating the vacuum necessary to take fuel from the main tank.

And that's priming the pump in a couple nutshells.

Masque