KR-netters: Has anyone explored using the old or newer VW diesels as conversions or is the weight to big a problem? You must use the better grades of diesel or "Jet A" because of the "Jelling" problem common for #2 Diesel in cold weather, add to that altitude.
Don ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Serge VIDAL wrote: > Guys, play with Ethanol if you wish. As for me, my next aircraft will be a > Diesel, so that I can fly on Jet A-1, and tour the world if I fancy, with > huge endurance, no no unreliable carb, magnetos or plugs, and without ever > risking to run out of Agas because the local airfield does not have it > anymore! > > That's my plan, and I will stick to it, even if it takes me another 15 > years to build the darn thing! > > Serge Vidal > KR2 "Kilimanjaro Cloud" > Paris, France > > > > "Harold Woods" <haroldwo...@rogers.com> > > Envoyé par : krnet-boun...@mylist.net > 27/05/2006 05:16 > Veuillez répondre à KRnet > Remis le : 27/05/2006 05:17 > > > Pour : <kr...@mylist.net> > cc : (ccc : Serge VIDAL/DNSA/SAGEM) > Objet : KR> ethanol > > Hi Netters. > re Issue 186 on 25 Apr 06. > Lets face it, there is going to be a shortage of gasoline in the future. > We > in the airplane group are a tiny drop in the pot. No one is going to make > special fuel for us. Go with the flow and that is ethanol. Adapt now. No > aluminum fuel lines. Ethanol attacks them. Redo your carb to ensure all > rubber parts are ethanol safe. Ensure that your gas tank will hold > ethanol, > pure if necessary. Expect to burn a greater volume of fuel to do the same > > thing. I am not going to start a war about how efficient gasoline is > compared to pure ethanol. Get the numbers straight from a knowledgeable > source.I do not have them. Size your gas tank to suit. Those of you in > the > USA are fortunate, if you want to produce your own ethanol fuel then apply > > for a licence for a few dollars. Go to the archives in "Mother Earth > News" > and find the article on a modern high efficiency still that you can make. > The plans are very reasonable cost. If you can grow your own carbohydrate > vegetable. Process it into ethanol. The "still" will give you about 80% > ethanol and 20 % water. > That is an excellent mixture for a gas engine. The water will give you a > high octane rating, it reduces the burn rate thus more power ( the water > becomes steam and that pushes uniformly on the piston). There was a man > (no > names given), living not too far away that grew sugar beets, which he made > > into ethanol. He quoted the cost as 25 cents a gallon (Imperial ), no > labour > or taxes involved. He ran his station wagon on this fuel. He had a sign > in > the back window to the effect that this vehicle ran on alcohol. In Canada, > > this is VERY illegal. After a few years the RCMPolice arrived and shut him > > down. They said that they had been watching him, he was not abusing the > alcohol by selling or drinking it so nothing was done until some idiot in > bureaucratic Ottawa decided that he should not do this. This man solved > the > problem by running for parliament in his area. He won. Government has a > problem. A member of parliament is charged with making alcohol. Solve the > problem, give him a permit to do so. (normally this would cost upwards of > $35,000.00 for a permit.) . The moral of this story is "adapt" Stop > bitching, do something constructive so that you can safely burn anywhere > from 10% to 100% ethanol, or any other fuel that shows up (natural gas, > propane, butane etc.) If you want to fly you must adapt. I am sending > this > on a Friday, If it is too late send it next week on a Friday. > Regards > Harold Woods > Orillia, ON. Canada. > haroldwo...@rogers.com > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
