Hey Glort...
Yeah, been having a good time lately... I enjoy the analytical type problem solving... shut myself off from the world, tell everybody to piss off and leave me alone, growl at anybody sidling towards me unless they bring a cuppa coffee of course, and make it perfectly plain to everyone in the vicinity that I am not interested in conversation, I'm busy, leave me alone, bugger off, I will let you know when I am interested in putting up with the bullshit, until then, just bring coffee by the gallon, when I am sated and have worked all the frustrations out and spent enough quality time with some mechanical gizmo, I will let the world know when I am ready to be social.... meantime, grab me another brick of ammo, I have an appointment with some tin cans in the back yard....
All good fun actually... by recusing myself from the rest of humanity for a week or two, the world is actually a safer place... I wonder if the local population actually realise that the 6ft walls and electric fence around my property aren't for my protection, but theirs!
Ran some more waterborne diesel through the SCFM today, only about 10L or so, but it went from milky orange juice to pale yellow pee like colour in a single pass... removed about 750ml of water from 10L, not too bad methinks... I ran it through a second time for good measure, less than 5ml caught in the cup, so I think it's good to go...
Also got a 5L diesel that had been used to wash out a sump or something similar... that was interesting... first pass pulled out about 200ml water, and few solids, but it was still jet black...put it through a second time, wound up the wick a bit, ran it at about 15000rpm, and pulled out about 100ml of what looks like graphite grease out of the stuff... it's now an almost cardboard brown colour with a yellowish tinge... if I get a chance I will push it through a few more time tomorrow at highish rpm's and see what falls out of the mix... might even put it under the microscope and see if I can work out the particle sizes, if any, that remain...
You know when you think a project is done...and then another, nice to have change comes to mind... Well, 2 or 3 or 6 changes have taken place on the SCFM lately... put clear plastic pipe on the bowl to catch tank, so I can see the product flow rate and quality leaving the fuge... put a small pump on the catch tank, now if the crap needs a second pass, plug in the pump, up it goes back to the header tank... now with the pump, I am going to install some power sockets on the fuge with a couple of switches to save me tripping over electric leads... but....with a pump on the catch tank, add an old dishwasher water level pressure sensor....and voila... catch tank will fill to a point, pump comes on, pumps it to header, wash, rinse repeat... Pump wont fry itself, pump wont run dry, can be left mostly unattended to cycle the sludge... tomorrows gonna be another interesting day!
Right, enough rambling, time to hit dreamland and an sf book or two...
Keep it spinning...
Cheers
Ed