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- Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:54 am
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: Tires and wheels
- Replies: 61
- Views: 36632
I wasn't trying to call you out, I have a lot of respect for anyone who has enough curiosity and stick-to-it-ness to mess with making wood gas, etc. Most people never make ~any~ energy, so I always gripes me when someone bad-mouths PV, biodeisel, etc. At least we are *producing* something rather tha...
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:56 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: Grace 4 - The Great Highway 1 Housetruck Race
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12708
No, it up and quit six years ago because the chapter had reached the end.
Also, perhaps you'd enjoy re-reading the memo.
Also, perhaps you'd enjoy re-reading the memo.
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:36 am
- Forum: Stuff Forum
- Topic: Ham Radio And Weather
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9880
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:29 am
- Forum: Alternative Power
- Topic: Nickel Iron battery inverter/wiring question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11371
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:07 am
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: 1960 Crown TV Truck
- Replies: 72
- Views: 45218
Since Crown coaches have aluminum bodies, rust isn't really much of an issue. the only steel panels on the exterior are the corrugated belting on the sides, and it's very thick, high grade steel, which is unlikly to have rusted though no matter how badly it's been exposed. Emergency doors havesteel ...
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:52 am
- Forum: Alternative Propulsion Vehicles
- Topic: Opinions on this Plug-in Beetle
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8540
Hmm, well, after a quick run-through of the pages offered there, I do have some concerns: The conversions offer battery voltages 72 and 96 volts. This seems strange, because most AC systems for vehicles are in the 244-500 volt range. 96 volts is considered a minimum voltage for a DC system, and 72 i...
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:19 pm
- Forum: Alternative Power
- Topic: Nickel Iron battery inverter/wiring question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11371
Thanks for registering and welcome to the forum. Yes, I still think that alkaline battery chemistry is superior to lead-acid. I do in fact have some Ni-Fe cells, as set of 10 that I picked up at the local metal recyclers back in 1982. I went in to cruise some old car parts that they had and found th...
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:17 am
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: 1960 Crown TV Truck
- Replies: 72
- Views: 45218
The only way to effectively work with Gulmite screws is to have a set of drivers. It is possible to twist some of them out with pliers, but that will get old very fast on a coach that has thousands of them, and scaring up the metal behind the screw heads is almost unavoidable. Drilling them out is e...
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:16 pm
- Forum: Stuff Forum
- Topic: Ham Radio And Weather
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9880
Oh yea, I went out and got licensed about a year ago after a power failure knocked out the telephone for a week. Figured that if there was some sort of an emergency while the phone was dead, I might have trouble calling out for help. Attended Technician and General class licensing classes that the l...
- Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:10 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: Antique RVs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7631
- Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:03 pm
- Forum: Stuff Forum
- Topic: Multi-Fuel Engines
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13136
- Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:38 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: Grace 8 - Comfort and Condolence
- Replies: 30
- Views: 18633
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:37 am
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: 1973 Blue Bird
- Replies: 864
- Views: 407071
Well, considering it has two low-budget NAPA oil filters hanging off the bottom of it, I'd say it's a good bet that it's the engine's oil pump. Oddly-shaped thing, though. Usually, oil pumps are internal and resident somewhere in the vacinity of the crankcase sump. The silver can with the wire looks...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:17 pm
- Forum: Trouble Report
- Topic: If You See Kay Spam
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12196
Giving this a bump because I've been spending a LOT of time working in the spam scripts that I use here. I'm actually working with the developer to release a version for phpBB3 forums that can be used to protect any installtion of that software. It's taken a couple of hundered hours to adapt and tun...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:37 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: Tires and wheels
- Replies: 61
- Views: 36632
The esters in biodiesel attack rubber. There aren't any esters in vegtable oil. You make them when you trans estrify the oil Oh, there most certianly are esters in vegetable oil! Vegetable oil is made up of esters in the form of fat (80%) and glycerin (20%), plus some fatty acids. From Wikipedia : ...