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my son looks in google immagines in different languages for a argument…
some pictures disappear quickly and are not to find more…therefore is good to collect here.
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What am I looking at in the first set of Giorgio’s pictures. A gas tank and some components. Tank has a BSA sticker on it but nothing I recognize. Kind of embarrassed to admit I don’t know how to use the google translator. Only owned one BSA for a short time. Single cylinder 440cc Victor. Enduro was not really my forte but I’d love to have that bike back now.
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Tom, you’re forgiven. It’s in Swedish. I could have translated myself, but I copy-pasted into google translate (which was s lot faster) and it turned into this.
For motorcycle, for charcoal.
Accessories: Loose parts: 1 gas generator, 1 gas tank and mixer, 1 gas cleaner, 1 fan and 5 pcs. pipe.
Name Generator gas unit for motorcycle
Identification number TEKS0024663
Type Item
Additional information Collection selection_car
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History
Constructed by the donor who has promised a short description and help with assembly. In 1939, Jacobson tried carbide aggregates from milk pails for his lightweight engine, but failed. In the winter of 1940-41 a unit for carbide, which worked well but too expensive to operate. In the summer of 1941, gen gas apparatus, for the light-weight motorcycle, own manufacture in the farm forge, Björka, Ödåkra. Fuel: small Kelle coal. Weight 20-25 kg. 1942 new aggregate for the lightweight. In 1943, J. bought a motorcycle with an aggreagt on the sides of the rear wheel. 500 cc engine, shook so the carbon crumbled. J. then built this in place of the petrol tank. Has gone flawlessly many trips Stockholm-Ödåkra and back, with good cooling.
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Very good step by step story J.O.
First trying a manufactured solid calcium carbide granules fueled, DIY minimalist system.
Than a commercially? professionally made? also haveing to buy-out calcium carbide fueled system.
Next to reduce fuel use costs a system using commercial Kalle small form graded wood charcoal? system.
The the right fuel found then. But his first DIY made system for that fuel having to be system changed. Then further modified to use that charcoal fuel for a bouncing, shaking motorcycle application.
Ideas-Designs put use; then modifying again and again we all have had to go through.
“1st Generation. 2nd Generation. 3rd Generation. 4th Generation.”
“Mark 1. Mark 2. Mark 3. Mark 4” (Ha! With minor changes marked as one-star, two stars; etc.)"
That is life. That is real. All best-perfect the first time out is the supreme arrogance.
Good info GiorgioP. and J.O.
I love these.
Steve Unruh
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Thanks for taking the time to translate that JO. Really interesting how people adapted to conditions in WWII. I wonder how many could do the same today. Technology has made more efficient products but I think in doing so people have lost much of what made them unique. People on this site are exceptions of course.
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Agree. Quite frightening actually. Skills and knowlidge usually passed down from one generation to the next are suddenly lost. How to use your credit card remains.
I’ve mentioned before, but I belive people in “less developed” countries will have the upper hand when the shtf. They still know how to, as we say, “cook a soup on a nail”.
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Can’t understand about the auger in the third picture diagram. Is it to drag the soot out? Seem like a drop box or cyclone would be better at that point.
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Hi Tom, it is probably a drop-box, i’ve seen it on other gasifiers, it’s intended to give the gas a longer path around.
To rinse it, just pull the auger out, it brings the soot with it.
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it is a dust trap and i will guess also cooler
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Eddy Ramos made something similar for his motorbike charcoal gasifier.
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The black bike frame with the white sign says “I run on forest gas” in French. Google translate.
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