[q]I was wondering if anyone found a good ratio of waste oil (engine,transmition,and gear oil) to diesel fuel (#2 or #1 diesel)? Is it dependable as igniting like a regular fuel oil furnace? I have an old sears regular fuel oil furnace and have been starting it on diesel fuel and switching it over to […]
Articles Tagged: fuel tank
Inline Electric WVO Fuel Heater
It seems the most useful thing I can pass on is regarding inline electric wvo heaters. These are simple to make using off the shelf plumbing components for around $15 each. If you are good at salvaging they can be made for far less. They use a standard 240vac water heater element run on 120vac. […]
Cyclone Wood Gasifier
[q]Re-reading the article on the Kalle gasifier and his method of filtering only the very fine particles of charcoal into the reaction zone in order to get a high rate of gasification gave me an idea. As I have said on many occasions, it is the fuel handling process which need the most thought, when […]
Gasoline Engines Running on Diesel?
[q]Anyone here know of any recent experiments with converting gasoline engined vehicles to run on diesel fuel? I’m thinking seriously of doing this with my ’91 Toyota pickup. It has the 22RE (electronic fuel injection) engine, 9:1 compression. Some older tractors had this ability – what is done is that there are two fuel tanks, […]
Running lawn equipment at half choke
A quick question please. I’m having problems tweaking my convertible trimmer. At one point it would run at half choke but as soon as I moved it off of half choke it would die. At that point I researched and read that I could open up a little screw knob about a 1/4 turn and […]