From: Paul Vandervort (pgv@mydb3.com)
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 09:56:33 PDT
Here's a good one. My dad has this old Oliver crawler. One day he
couldnt get it running. I finally got a chance to take a look at it. It
had gas, spark, air but wouldnt run at all. I took the mag apart,
checked the carb, looked at everything. Gas smelled fine too. After
about 2-3 hours of checking EVERYTHING three times I took a wild shot at
the gas. Poured some on a rag and put a lighter to it and it would NOT
burn at all! Smelled like gas, looked like gas (yes fresh gas), but
would not burn at all. I have never seen anything like it.
PauL Vandervort
MVPA 437
MV wrote:
>
> I have a number of vehicles and occassionally I will get a batch of gas
> that is simply too bad to burn in a particular car or truck. I have had
> good luck putting the bad gas into cans and feeding it into my forklift
> and Case gas tractor by mixing it with fresh gas - half bad/half good.
> Both the forklift and the Case tractor have low compression engines -
> like 6:1 and it doesn't seem to bother them much at all.
>
> Sooner or later the government is going to realize that having gas that
> goes bad in a month or two does have some national ramifications.
> Especially if it can't be stored for emergency situations.
>
> Dave
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Ed wrote:
>
>> That is a great site! My reasons for wanting to convert is that the
>> propane
>> does not require anything special to store it. As far as I know it never
>> goes bad like gas or diesel does and while it may put out a smaller
>> amount
>> of power for running my well and most of my inside electrical items it
>> should do just fine. I have a military 10kw genset that I found is more
>> like a 20kw due to the power it puts out! I turned on everything in our
>> house to include the central A/C and it handled the load with a 75% load
>> showing on the load meter on the genset!! I highly recommend it for
>> emergency use. Here in upstate South Carolina it's mostly for ice storms
>> that knock out power for several days at a time. We have a large wood
>> burning fireplace so heat isn't a problem but having backup power sure is
>> nice!
>>
>> I wired it into the main wiring using a double throw, double pole
>> transfer
>> switch to prevent powering the lines and killing some lineman that thinks
>> that the line he is about to touch is dead!! Our setup was inspected and
>> approved by our power company and in fact was shown in one of their
>> monthly
>> magazines a few years ago. I have a 250 gas tank to fuel it but even
>> though
>> I use Stabile the gas will still go bad after a couple of years. I have
>> about 50 gallons right now that is crap. I have to drain it and try
>> to get
>> it into shape for the mower or something. At the price gas is now I'm
>> not
>> about to throw it out!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Ed
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <Recovry4x4@aol.com>
>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 13:10
>> Subject: Re: [MV] Generator
>>
>>
>>
>>> http://www.propane-generators.com/military-surplus-generators.htm
>>>
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