The Old Folks Home

[beverly evans]

I once tried to dry some wet wood.... but putting it on top of the wood stove

my brilliance astounds.

I would have thought you could. Just seems logical. Obviously, you can't, but why not? Why won't it dry out? Does it just catch on fire? Would it dry if it were not too hot?

 

[ronott1]

I .remember as a child, my father filling the tank with diesel instead of gas. I don't remember what he did. Don't remember him draining it out anywhere and we did get home that nite.

Diesel in a gas engine is not as bad as gas in a diesel. Gas is not stable for exploding and diesel uses high compression to ignite instead of spark.

The compression will make the gas explode when the valves are open--the head and intake system as well as the exhaust system will often be broken.

For diesel in a gas engine you can usually drain the gas tank. sometimes you may need to have the intake system cleaned but not usually.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Mizzou/Arkansas game just started. Should be a good game but Razorbacks are moving the ball early on.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: It can be done, you just have to be careful how you do it. It's best to have something non-flammable (like bricks) keeping some space between the wood and the woodstove. It also helps to keep the fire rather low (not usually too hard, if your wood is wet

) so the wood is gently warmed. Finally, you need to keep tabs on how dry the wood is getting, because the drier it is, the easier it catches fire (duh!) Really dry wood can catch fire if it is within inches of the stove pipe, for example.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: I imagine diesel in a gas-powered car would be a bit like the time someone I know put kerosene in a lawnmower, or someone else put 2-cycle fuel in another straight gas-powered mower; the engine wasn't happy, but it ran.

 

[perchie.girl]

I .remember as a child, my father filling the tank with diesel instead of gas. I don't remember what he did. Don't remember him draining it out anywhere and we did get home that nite.

The problem with Diesel engines is they rely on compression for ignition. So with the old time Diesels they have huge pressures in the cylinders.... Gasoline has a lower compression rate so high compression will cause premature detonation....

http://alternativefuels.about.com/od/dieselbiodieselvehicles/a/gasolinindiesel.htm

After reading this article I suspect Dads story was part Tall Tale.... LOL.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
When I lived at my house i regularly used wet wood.... Usually I had a few pieces in the house that were dry so I started the fire with those.... then I put the wet wood in one at a time.... Kind of roasting them in the Potbelly. Boy would they sizzle and squeek and let off steam but caught fire pretty much in the same amount of time as the dry.

was I in Danger or something?

deb

 

[chickwhispers]

Did anyone else get bumped off of BYC this morning? I guess if you did, you wouldn't be able to comment yet.

When I went online this morning, I wasn't logged in and it wouldn't accept my password so I had to reset it but that took a while because I have a different e-mail.
So 3 hours later I was finally able to log on. I bet you're all thrilled about that.

No but my google chrome just kicked me off. So I went to my IE. I believe Black Friday is slowing down my connections!

 

[sourland]

My ex wife drove off with the gas nozzle and hose.

I saw a guy do the same thing at a gas station in Md. He almost made it out to the road when he became aware of what he had done. The look on his face was classic.

 

[vehve]

Older diesels are fine with a bit of gas in them, 30 years ago people used to add a bit of gas to the diesel in the winter to keep if from separating (5-10%). Modern diesels are fine tuned and you can really mess up an engine with some diesel in there. I usually drive our pug which goes on gas, but once when I was really tired I pumped 15 liters of gas into our Nissan before realizing my mistake. Luckily I caught it before starting the engine, all that needed to be done was to empty the tank. But it did cost quite a lot. Whatever you do, don't go driving if you pump the wrong fuel into your car.

Another fun thing about older diesels, you can drive them on practically any kind of oil. Deep fryer oil is something many use. You just need to filter it carefully, some add a bit of some sort of additive to it.