Your probably right there Cody, if i remember correctly the DeLorean’s used a engine developed by Peugeot, Volvo and some more?
Not a wonder of reliability. Probably a mixup of their newest innovative ideas, from recently graduated engineers.
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Mr Delorean was a former employee to General Motors if I recall correctly.
A lot of things in the cars are very Spartan, and others are fancy. It’s very odd looking inside a stock Delorean car.
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Had to look it up, it was the PRV (Peugeot, Renault, Volvo) v6 engine, 170hp, 130hp in USA, due to emission laws.
No fun engine, i had a rusty volvo 760 with that engine…
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Yup Tony Bernson a freind of mine dad bought a DeLorean when they first were produce. He had the only one in Moses Lake. Got to ride around in it. I thought it was cool at the time. But I here they were pretty much a production junk car with lots of problems with them. DeLorean smuggling drugs in them was not a very good idea. He went to jail for a few years. But the good news is he excepted God and His Son as his Savior. He is RIP now.
Bob
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Going slowly, this tractor conversion, but done a little work, some 15 minutes here, some 1/2hour there…
This is going to be the condensate gutter.
Not so nice weld, but i can always blame the fact i couldn’t find my welding helmet
Old gas outlet, going to cut this piece out.
Today i “blowed” some holes in inner hopper, for steam condensation.
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You are doing some serious modifacation on this gasifier to make it better then new.
Bob
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Better, i don’t know, but i’ve found out a drying, condensing hopper fits my use much better than the Imbert heated hopper, that idea was good, but very sensitive to moisture, when starting to pull hard on a imbert, practically all moisture are released as steam, pressurize the hopper, through the hearth, cooling it down, engine/car runs terrible, slowly heating up again, drying, to a certain point where steam releases again, and so on.
The condensing hopper fits me perfectly, as im not always careful and using dry wood…
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Little tinkering with the tractor gasifier today. Should have done more, but got distracted by a chainsaw
I’ve run ww2 gasifiers/Imbert’s before, and my conclusion is they are very prone to bridging, hang up’s, so this is a idea i wanted to try sometime, putting an auger in the hopper, down to the charring zone.
Got this screw/auger from a neighbor friend that likes to save good-to-have pieces almost as much as i.
My idea is to mount it on a flexible “peg” in the bottom, allow it to move some sideways.
Im going to power it with a windshield wiper motor, controlled from a intermittent wiping relay.
I think it could be useful, especially when the tractor works, standing still (pto work), when no bumps shake down chunks.
My idea is to let the auger rotate so it “lifts” the chunks, to make “bridges” collaps. And avoid pushing them stuck.
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Goran, it is no my idea but I believe it works. Just square tubes from the top down. The squares move the blocks a little and they fall. Gasifier idea for home heating ten years ago. I dont think the guy will take it in production. Seems to work ok.
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Made gas outlets on the tractor gasifier this afternoon, two of them, always good to take out the gas in two opposite positions, to avoid the gas channeling and overheat one side. (on imbert types)
Also decide to “choke it down” some, for the first tests, and the tractor don’t do much heavy work.
Going to cut this bearing race open some.
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Made some more work on the tractor gasifier, i decided to not build a flange joint, and just weld it together. Those bolted flanges tend to rust stuck so i have to use an angle-grinder anyway.
Gasifier now in one piece again.
Ofcourse i ran out of shielding gas (what to expect on a Sunday?) Ran trusty old stick welding instead.
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I can relate on both things. I hate flanges and l too seem to run out of welding suplyes at worst possible times. Lidl sometimes has half kilo flux core wire, its what l have for emergancy use. Its crap compared to a normal MIG but still better thain stick…
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Loved the history lesson on " monorater " hopper. Engineering guy with us spent half an hour searching the meaning of the word, sure it must be in use in some other industry. Said, “Maybe Scandinavian invented hopper. Cannot find anything else.” Thanks!
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Yeah it’s typical running out of shielding gas on a weekend, good thing this was pretty thick stuff, 2mm, i prefer stick over flux-core, i never liked it.
Maybe it’s just that i learned to weld with stick as a kid? Should hate it, we had an old buzz-box (bumble-bee in Swedish) ac, terrible to weld with, it gives the word “stick” another meaning: it’s just what it does, sticks to everything, has to pull and twist that d*mn handle to get the stick un-stuck, all whilst that welder box buzzing louder and louder, sounding overloaded.
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Thanks Doc, yeah im alittle into the historical aspects of gasification also, i find it interesting and there are alot forgotten ideas and information to be rediscovered.
Just as you say, the word “monorator” is a Scandinavian invention, from generator (wich we call gasifiers “gas-generator”) and: mono, to point out it’s single walled
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Tried some gasifier “positioning” this evening.
Had to cut of one of the lights, going to re-mount it in front of gasifier.
If i get some time left tomorrow im going to make a template from cardboard, to fit some of the bolt’s in the tractors “waist” or middle, to make a bracket for the gasifier.
Wonder if i could use this stainless scrap for a hot-filter housing, it has a lid, and a groove for a gasket.
This is saved from restoration of a local public indoor swimmingpool, it served the purpose as a hair-filter (yuck) it came to me complete with filter cage, containing a pound of hair and band-aid
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Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth Goran. I use dog hair in one of my simple fire filters and the dog doesn’t give it up without a fight. Lucky for me the wife does the grooming and I wait until she’s done and sneak it treats to get back in it’s good graces. 
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Done some work on the tractor today, gasifier in place, a real challenge to mount something on the side of a tractor, with no “frame”.
I even re-located the light, only to realize i probably have to move it some more.
I added this “banana” to stabilize it some more.
Welded in a pipe, for a sanitary coupler, for the condensate collector.
Now to decide which type of filter i want, and what space allows, also mount a cooler/radiator that flip’s/follows the hood.
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Spot on. In my opinion it shuld be forbiden for any kid to learn to weld with anything but an old buzz stick welder with crapy electrodes. It takes time to do anything remotely usefull but once you learn to do a decend job… l welded with it since l was about 10 and l think l was 20 when l first held a mig gun in my hand. Instant expert, it felt like child play.
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Haha, yes, i remember first time using a mig welder, i think i was 15, after struggling with stick-welding that mig was like using a glue-gun ,so much easier.
As you say: learn with stick, and oxy-acetylen, first is the way to go.
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