Glad to see that there are others that actually spend a little time reading the manuals for their machines. Like Mike says, you can ruin an engine with ether if you "fog" it often enough. Personally I bought a welder with a newly rebuilt Waukesha diesel driving it that had been over ethered. They kept trying to start it with the injection pump out of time and it wouldn't start. The first thing I had to do was open it up and re-ring it as all but one was broken into several pieces. Believe it or not it still ran, but pushed oil out the draft tube in a constant stream. But, like most things in life, ether, in moderation, won't hurt a thing.....Most don't realize it (or won't admit it), but ultimately ether has benefits to the engine when used properly, and only when actually needed.
I think ether started getting a really bad rep when intake heaters and glow plugs came into use. I remember dad telling of a man coming into the dealership with his intake manifold in pieces because he decided he needed a shot of ether on a cold morning. Seems the explosion is supposed to happen inside the cylinder, NOT in the intake manifold where it does when ether strikes the filament of a working intake heater....
Ultimately though I know how much fun those 'tater cannons' can be. I built one years ago that could launch the 'tater' nearly 200 years, possibly further, we never got a real, true measurement. We just know we were about 100 yards from one side of the pond, and the tater went way over the BIG oak trees on the other side of our neighbors pond.
Word of caution though. DO NOT fire a golf ball at a brick wall with it.... Me and a buddy did it ONCE, years ago. It seemed like a good idea at the time......believe it or not alcohol was NOT involved. Unfortunately it didn't dawn on us until a split second after hitting the trigger that the ball was going to bounce somewhere.....and maybe come back to us..... Thankfully it didn't come straight back, or it would have taken out a couple of windows when it did. Did I also mention we were living in an apartment complex at the time so there were plenty of other easily dented, shattered, etc, etc objects in the parking lot. That's been about 20 years ago and, thankfully, we didn't hear any loud bangs if it hitting a car, or see any shattered glass at the time and, thankfully, haven't seen that ball again.....But it was a lot of fun....LOL
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