El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-05

ONT. under any circumstances
smoke while filling the gasoline
- tank. Don't inspect the motor or
the carburetor with a lighted match
or torch of any kind in the hand Even
a lighted cigaret or cigar is dangerous,
and if careleSSly thrown into the dust
pan is liable TO ignite the heavy SaSO-
line vapors lurking beneath the motor
and, unless the accident happens near
fire station, the complete destruction
of the car may be the result
Another dangerous practice mot gen
orally known is that OF running the
motor for purposes Of adjustments
within the home garage with doors anu
windows closed The exhaust from the
engine containing carbon mOnoXlde, i
a deadly poison, having similar out
more pronounced and rapid effect upon
its victim than damp found in wells
and mines, resulting in death II
breathed any great length OF time lar
bon monoXide,~ heavier than air, SINKS
rapidly to the floor or earth, as the
case may be, unon leaving the mu11ier
or exhaust pipe, the noXlous gases
gradually filling the garage, PROVIDED
the doors and windows are closed
Hence the folly and danger Of lying ex-
tended upon ones back beneath the car
adjusting the different parts, when the
motor is running and the garage doors
and windows closed, is apparent ana
should be studiously avoided
Automobile doors usually are ar
ranged to close against cork or rubber
buffers However, the constant SIAM
ming of the doors has tendency 10
flatten these buffers TO such an extent
as TO defeat their purpose permitting
the doors to continuously keep up q
rafting noise when the car IS IN mo-
ton. which is very annoying, to say the
least and to the amateur mOtOrlSI OIL
times very difficult to locate
The only satisfactory metnod OF
eliminating the rattle IS to apply new
buffers and thus promptly put an eno
nwrrana
Again The rafting of top bows where
they join the top irons on the DOdy OF
the car also very annoying, may pest
be done away with by the apphcat lon
Of leather washers Con the inside OF
bowl rather than iron washers as tns
latter, unless very snugIy Iltted 70 lne
body top iron. viii only add 70 tne t t1,'o
Ting noise. Taking up a nOtch or Two
in the front top retaining straps ooeS
not remedy the trouble as the noise Is
caused only by side swinging move
ments-
If your car is double chain driven.
don't overlook the fact that, IN case OF
accident to one Of the chains, the car
nav he driven home under its own pow
er by simply placing the broken ehaln
around the front sprocket upon the
lack shaft, attaching the end INK 10
the body OF the chain by wire and Sc
curing the other end OF the chain 10
the chassis or other convenient point on
the car the idea being. to prevent rota-
ton of this idle sprocket While TINS
method is admittedly a strain upon the
remaining active chain, the knowledge
and use of the expeoient. IN the absence
of extra links with which to repair the
broken chain, viii often pull one out or
a dilemma which otherwise might cause
no little embarrassment and 1nconVe-
nience-
Do not make the grave error OF I'LL
ing with cold water the radiator of a
machine that has Just finished nara
some time as, if the hot water still re
naming in the car does not complete
" cover the cylinders, the cold water
suddenly coming in contact with the
exposed heads of the cylinders IS quite
likely to crack them. Even though tpe
crack does not develop. the sudden con
traction of the portion of metal with
which the cold water comes in con-
tact creates the likelihood of throwing