<VV> Heating Grease with a Microwave

[alan WESSON]

I don't know about grease, but it sure burns anything with a high fat
content very quickly - my wife left some butter in ours for 5 minutes, and
we nearly had a fire on our hands.

I imagine grease would also heat up very quickly, so it wouldn't need long
(perhaps a series of short bursts).

Please note that these comments are those of an ignorant moron and that any
advice of mine that you follow is entirely at your own risk.

Cheers

Alan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brown, Douglas T CIV NAVAIR DEPT" <douglas.t.brown@navy.mil>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: RE: <VV> Heating Grease with a Microwave


> If you don't want to heat the microwave without water in it, put your
grease container in a small dish of water.
>
> Toby
>
> ~~~~~~~Original Message~~~~~~~
> From: "N. Joseph Potts" <pottsf@msn.com>
> To: "Corvair List" <virtualvairs@skiblack.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:26:15 -0400
> Subject: <VV> Heating Grease with a Microwave
>
> Page 40 of Corvair Basics contains the suggestion to heat steering-gear
> lubricant (while mixing it) in a microwave oven.
>      It was my understanding that microwaves were tuned to heat WATER (an
> ingredient of most foods), and would not heat something molecularly
> different from water, like chassis grease and/or differential lube. Not
only
> would the grease not heat, but the oven would be running "unloaded" if
> otherwise empty, and would be subject to burnout after a few minutes.
>      Can anyone report actually having heated these lubricants in a
> microwave, without burning the oven out?
>
> Joe Potts
> Miami, Florida USA
> 1995 General Electric Model J EM25GV 001
>
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