Micro CoGen.

Last year, kerosene was $15 gal at hardware store. For city folks lamps at the camp I guess.  No other sales of it around.  I've been using diesel in my lamps that keep the greenhouse and pump sheds warm.  Now diesel is close to $7 gal, and no red diesel ( red diesel gummed up the wicks anyway)

Some of the avatars are missing, it looks like

I'd say, with current conditions, renew for a year.   I'll kick in $150 to start with.   What's the paypal address ?

Mike  ( been way too busy working to be very activly posting )

We've got a week of clouds & rain here, just keeping the 6/1 running and some water mist down the intake

Not a dumb question or a dead forum.  I didn't have an answer and didn't feel like saying " Look in the owners manual ".   I still don't have an answer.

But it's always worth posting, because not everybody checks in every 12 hours ,  someone might have one in the pile in the corner and needs a day  or 3 to dig it out and look at it.

I go to my local airfield and fill up my 5 gallon cans from the aviation gas pump, 100LL works fine in the chainsaws and weed whackers.  They start on the 2nd or 3rd pull after being idle for months ( and yes, I run them dry before storage)  Run it in the 4 cycle gear too, absolutely fine.

I tried to post and could not attach a pic in the manner I have used before.

Tried just now, and the small JPG hung up again while trying to attach, had to restart my reply

( trying again, post doesn't seem to complete with a 400kb pic attached )

I have a commercially made system from Rheem.

It has a flat, glass,  glycerol panel mounted on the sloped roof. At the high end is a insulated 30gallon water tank with the glycol heat exchanger .  The two of us, in the summer, have an excess of 150F stored hot water on our roof all summer.  fall, winter, spring, the solar angle is not so good, and it only heats up to about 90F, which is still fine to feed to our tankless water heater as it only has to boost the temp a little bit.

Winter, we have a 1" SS thermal loop in our Masonry Heater, which heats a 80 gal tank on the 2nd floor above the heater, heats that 80 gallon up to about 90F

Hopefully, it's just a domain glitch and it will be back soon.

The page currently is a generic engine themed landing site


This Domain Name Has Expired - Renewal Instructions
  https://help.enom.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001555871

Quote from: Henry W on July 19, 2021, 07:36:37 AM
Learned something, thanks for posting. I believe Toyota has a hydrogen fueled automobile. How serious could Hydrogen Embrittlement be?
Does it take hours, months or years for metals to get so brittle that components fail? Can and engine be engineered to resist failure?

I think it's months for the high pressure areas.  Then years in the low pressure areas.  That's the big problem.

I have this as a possible part for a off the shelf seat:
"Detroit Diesel series 92 valve seats are a very close replacement"  for the 6/1's and their family.  it's what the machine shop put into my head.

Will the pellets be used in the Hopland FD BBQ ?

Wonderful !!

thank you

My thermosiphon tank is an old vehicle gas tank, plumbed up and hung on the wall
It's 15 gallons and is 50/50 antifreeze.  It takes about 60 minutes to warm up to 160F, and as it gets warmer, simply the tank itself, and the open top, start dumping heat faster and faster.  I don't think it would ever boil, but it steams pretty good at 180F  Never seen it above 180F, it just looses heat too fast.