Yesterday l started training my 1,5 year old horse, set her free for a while to pasture on her own (without any horse company) and soon l saw she was werry nervous. Horse flyes and LOTS of them. Then l remembered something. I took my wood winegar that l made with my charcoal kiln and sprayed it all over her fur. Not a sign of any fly anymore and the horse smells like BBQ 
Edit: l bet same could be done with hopper juice. Anyone willing to try?
Hm, I was over to my neighbour chatting half an hour ago, watching him building his porch/veranda. He was complaining about gnat and mosquitoes.
Back home I’m still sitting on my veranda 9.30 pm and I don’t feel a single gnat. I wonder if all the hopper juice I’m watering unwanted weed with has something to do with it? There’s a nice smell of smoked sausage all over my place
Fortunately we live on a hill where there is a breeze that keeps bugs away. My wife really complains when she goes to visit people who live in the wood or on a lake. I might suggest she spray down with some hopper juice instead of perfume, that I tell her attracts bugs. How do you think it would work for “sun tan lotion”??? She easily sun burns. TomC
Have her try it and report back
There are so many useful products coming outof a gasifier. I wouldn’t be surpriced if it worked
Been wanting to post this finally got to it. When I got back from Argos, there was tar splashed on the back, and roof of the Ranger, that was sun baked on. I thought is would be a good time to experiment, so I got out several different cleaners. I tried Pine-sol, bleach, grease/wax remover, dish soap, nothing worked. I then tried acetone, came right off, and it will not harm the paint.
I found this machine interesting, imaging what i can do with the heat of charcoal making as energy source…
Very interesting.
It looks like the sort of undertaking that makes good sense in the 3rd world.
When I saw the paving stones made from plastic, I was thinking how slippery those would become once worn and wet. It occurred to me that a high proportion of the mix could be sand, thus greatly extending the use of the plastic, and making a stronger and more useful product.
I hope you explore this idea further.
I was also concerned about the lack of gloves or safety glasses around the molten plastic, the consequences could be catastrophic!
I wonder how you would ever clean it up if the plastic goop in that outlet pipe cools?
Tiger torch…
Plus a few more characters.
…And a cloud of toxic smoke…
yup, was thinking the same…
dough i love the possibility’s with the idea…
What other options come to mind are making fence pole’s, construction beams for small sheds, etc etc…
I have always thought of building inter locking bricks for basements and retaining walls. Possibly putting them together with all purpose pipe glue to seal them.
I imagine that I will want to measure differential vacuum pressure across the char bed and other parts of the gasifier. I want to be able to look at one gauge and have it give me the information I want without having to do any math. And I want to be able to use inexpensive vacuum gauges.
So I felt the need to be able to plumb a second vacuum line to the back of a gauge. It turns out that it’s not very difficult. I went to HF and bought the cheapest pressure gauge they had, thinking I was going to ruin it.
The ring that holds plastic window in place wouldn’t come off. I had to cut it with a triangular file. After I got the ring off I was able to solder it back together and reuse it. It was fairly easy to drill a small hole in the back and solder on a little piece of brass tubing that would allow a vacuum tube to be connected. I used 62% tin solder. The biggest challenge was getting the parts hot enough so the solder would stick. A regular soldering iron wouldn’t do it. I had to heat up a nail with a torch. After I got the soldering work done it was easy to seal up all the leaks in the case with RTV silicone and put the gauge back together. I didn’t even ruin the gauge. I’m counting this as one of my successes. Now I just need to find some cheap vacuum gauges.
Rindert
I think you are onto something there! I’ve never opened up one of the low pressure guages. Do they use a bellows or what? I don’t think a bourdon tube would be sensitive enough for our purposes.
The one I took apart uses a bourdon tube. Some others use a diaphragm. I don’t see how it would matter to us.
Rindert- What was the pressure range of the HF gauge you modified?
We used to simply put the gauge into a plastic bag, along with an extra tube and seal the thing with rubber bands so we didn’t have to carry 2 gauges. For measurements in the 0-30 inch WC range, of course.
I don’t think there are any “cheap” mechanical gauges (pressure or vacuum) in the 0 to 20 or 30 inch water column range.
At one time Surplus Center had some and I bought a couple. But they are all gone.
Now I think you will have to pay at least USD$30.00 to get a simple 0-30 inch WC vacuum gauge.
Please correct me if I am wrong, so I can buy an extra for myself.
Thanks for that!!! I could make some sort of a clear plastic box and do essentially the same thing, but longer lasting. Maybe some sort of seal-a-meal …??? Anyhoo, I still like what I came up with. It took about 3 hours to do it the first time. I think I can do it in about 1/2 hour next time. If I did a set of four all at the same time maybe 1 hour.
I did a search on Amazon. vacuum gauge, sort by: price, low to high. I see some in the 4 to 7 USD range. Of course I wish they were in the 2 for a penny range, but what the hay. 
Inches of water H2O guage for $4 to $7? You sure it is not HG - inches of mercury?
Yes, you’re right. Inches of mercury, and I realize now they aren’t sensitive enough.
Rindert
