Life goes on - Summer 2015

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#41

a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.

#42

That’s great !!! Now if I could just get the air out of my studebaker brake system I could drive it back up here. It is still running fine but I like to have brakes … They don’t leak but I pulled a wheel a few months ago and it must have bleed out there so it’s a 10 pumper … I started it an hour ago … Nothing like a Studebaker V8 …, (1961) … Mike vrooom vrooom …

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#43

Mike, there is a trick that I use for forklifts and motorcycles. There always seems to be air trapped somewhere in the line. Only a pressure bleeder can give it a continuous push. As an alternative, take a small squeeze bottle with a tapered outlet nozzle completely full of brake fluid. Put on a short piece of hose that will fit snug on the bleeder fitting. Attach it to the bleeder, open the bleeder, squeeze it real good, upside-down. This is the absolutte best way to get the air out of all the high spots and traps. This also works very well for hydraulic clutch cyclinders that are generally a nightmare.

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#44

Driving a gasifier has been compared to flying a helicopter. You might want to learn to fly it BEFORE you take off.

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#45

Any parts left to make a chunker? :fearful:

Jeff

#46

It’s not about learning to fly, it’s about learning how to LAND!

#47

Mmmmm.
Fresh made new season ripe Pacific NW strawberry sorbet.

All Mine.
Eat your hearts out.
Steve Unruh

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#48

Just finished treating my spare tire and surrounding area, lots of rust. A lot of scraping, drilling, and brushing. About 3-4 cans of rust treatment and 4-5 cans of undercoating. Finnaly done! :relaxed:

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#49

Excellent price on an excellent welder, anyone in Maine…

https://maine.craigslist.org/for/5043910658.html

#50

Hello Chris
Got a question for you,do you ever use both pusher blowers at the same time or suction and pusher?
Thanks Calvin…

#51

Yes and yes. Effect of pusher + reverse blower is a massive flame out the hopper lid, or extra drying action when blowing back and forth starting on bad / wet wood. I’ll probably do this at Argos to make a big tall hopper flame. Not 100% needed, but nice to have.

Suction and pusher will make the gasifier start faster, like having a locomotive in front and back of a train. Again just a nice to have, you can get by without.

You’ll never run suction and reverse together, they would just be fighting each other.

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#52

Calvin, I took this video last year of what Chris is talking about. Reverse and pusher at the same time.

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#53

HI all flamers,will it do that with full hopper or just when low on dry wood,with vac and push fans on.THAT WILL MAKE NICE ARGOS NIGHT LIGHT.

#54

That’s the key. Wet wood will make too much steam.

#55

Thanks for the clareity,what don mans said, is correct,pusher fans and reverse fans,its a bit confuseing for a non gasser,with no ashfault time, must have had some good reverse fans running, Thanks

#56

Does that mean if one were forced to use some wet wood, one could ‘quick dry’ a bit while in the hopper?

#57

It’s not quick, but yes that’s the idea. You’re wasting a ton of energy doing so. Much much better to have dry wood to start with.

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#58

Hi Bill, It was awesome talking to you last year/flaring your mini.
When I have green wood, I like to throw it in at shut down. The heat soak drys it nicely and it doesn’t waste any energy. Works for about half a hopper’s worth and it takes a bit more than an hour.

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#59

Thanks Terry, that makes sense.
I was sure hoping to see you and your truck this year. I have a lot better understanding of wood gas this year than I did last year this time. I was hoping for a closer look at your hopper lid. I’m sure glad to see you still check in here.

#60

Bill, Any questions you might have about my lid, just ask.

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