Rad stuffing

[Ray Young]

Has anyone ever heard of stuffing the top of a rad with hemp rope? I drained the rad today to put antifreeze in. When I looked in through the filler neck I saw something floating. I reached in with needlenose pliers and pulled out some rope. There was lots of it in there. Thanks in advance for any help

Thanks
Ray

 

[tmodelman]

Curious, 'bout the only reason to think of is the previous owner got fed up with a rattling busted loose soldered baffle, and poked the rope down to tamp out the noise!

 

[Ray Young]

After cleaning out the rad and refilling it there is no sign of any issues with it. I wasn't sure if this was an old trick to raise the water temp by slowing down flow through the rad.

 

[daren007]

Rope smugglers.

 

[J Franklin]

Hemp rope after Harry Anslinger!

 

[Ray Young]

As of this week we no longer have to hide hemp up here anymore.

 

[rfitzpatrick]

I'm never disappointed when I read about the T's --really liten my life.
(rope in the rad??)
"What A Wonderful Life"

 

[daren007]

Not sure I would smoke it soaked in anti freeze.

 

[Ray Young]

It’s all good, it was plain water in the rad lol.