From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 09:19:17 PST
At 9:03 AM -0500 1/7/03, Glen Bedel wrote:
>just an "unverified fact".
>
>I was told when I was a boy that the military used gasoline because it did
>not freeze in winter.
>and one of the reasons Germany had problems in Russia.
I thought the german tanks wer Gasoline as well. Their big problem
was letting a vehicle's oil freeze. The Russians (at least their air
force) had the procedure down pat for draining the crank case and
later filling it with warmed oil (after and before sorties,
respectively). I'd expect that the Russian tanks, being designed for
the environment, probably had block heaters of some sort for faster
start ups.
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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