From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 18:08:47 PST
What a great concept!! An organic war!! The democrats will be proud of you
for coming up with that. apbloom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Newton" <jnewton@laurel.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:54 PM
Subject: [MV] Running an M3A4 Smoke Generator on Vegetable Oil?
>
> Hello List...
>
> We're going to use an M3A4 smoke generator that was generously donated
> to our group (thanks, George!) for an upcoming re-enactment event. I
> fired it up yesterday on the very first try and it made gobs of smoke,
> filling the neighborhood before I could shut it off. Here's a picture
> my wife took of my second test firing (my Suburban is completely
> obscured behind the smoke on the left side of the photo):
>
> http://216.103.65.124/archives/cimmerians/photos/smokegen_01.jpg
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried using vegetable oil (peanut,
> corn, canola, soy bean, etc.) for the fog oil instead of SGF2 (which
> is 10-weight light petroleum oil, mixed with kerosene to lower the
> viscosity if needed in cold weather).
>
> --
>
> Jim "Ike" Newton
>
> o 1984 M1007 CUCV Military Suburban
> 6.2 Liter (378 CID) Turbo-Diesel Engine
> 5/4 Ton Cargo Capacity, 4WD
>
> o 1971 M35A2 Military Troop/Cargo Truck "Deuce and a Half"
> 478 CID Turbo-Diesel Multi-Fuel Engine
> Air Shift Front Axle
> 2 1/2 Ton Cargo Capacity, 6WD
>
> See These Trucks at www.CUCV.NET
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