From: MV (MV@dc9.tzo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 23:13:42 PDT
I wasn't offended, I wasn't pissed off and I was confused long before
this thread started. (;->) I just didn't get the point. Now I did
mention "fire in a large boiler" - but that should not be taken as a
flame. (:->) Just a comment about coal dust.
Dave
santoken@bright.net wrote:
> Sorry, was only trying to correct the original post regardin what the original Diesel engine was fired with. Sorry to offend anyone, sorry to piss anyone off, sorry if I confused anyone, sorry if...
>
> Damn, seems that you can't say much on this list anymore without some cockstrong getting out the flamethrower...
>
>
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>>From: MV <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
>>Date: Wed Oct 5, 6:25 PM
>>To: santoken@bright.net
>>CC: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>Subject: Re: [MV] Cooking oil question
>>
>>I'm missing the point here on this thread. If Rudolf tried to run his
>>new engine on dirt and it didn't work, would it matter? Sames goes for
>>wood? So what it didn't work. Edison tried to make light bulbs with
>>hundreds if not thousands of different kinds of filiments before he
>>found tungsten. No one cares about what didn't work. I bet that Rudolf
>>tried a lot of other stuff besides coal dust and peanut oil.
>>
>>Coal dust works fine to fire some very large boilers though. Looks like
>>a heating oil flame if it is burning right.
>>
>>Perhaps I should retrofit my M51 with a steam turbine. Put a couple of
>>thousand pounds of coal in the bed and take a drive! At $80-90/ton it
>>might be a lot more economical than gas.
>>
>>FWIW,
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>santoken@bright.net wrote:
>>
>>>Sorry Mr. Bloom, but I'm pretty sure that Diesel first tried engines fired on coal dust...it didn't work. I think, iirc, it damn near killed him.
>>>
>>>Kent
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>>>>From: m35products <m35prod@optonline.net>
>>>>Date: Wed Oct 5, 9:47 AM
>>>>To: santoken@bright.net, Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>>>Subject: Re: [MV] Cooking oil question
>>>>
>>>>No. Peanut oil.
>>>>
>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>From: <santoken@bright.net>
>>>>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:23 PM
>>>>Subject: Re: [MV] Cooking oil question
>>>>
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>>>>>Acutally, if memory serves correctly, originally didn't Diesel try using
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>>>>the fuel coal dust?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Kent
>>>>
>>>>
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