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Waste Motor Oil / Re: WMO load test

« on: January 07, 2008, 02:25:25 PM »

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Before I found a source of Sodium Hydroxide, I used draino.

That's lye in my book ! USA grocery stores carry granular Red Devil Lye, in the same locations as liquid Draino, at half the price.

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General Discussion / Re: At the risk of blowing my own trumpet, why generate power at home?

« on: January 06, 2008, 10:24:12 PM »

In a different vein, here's a link to a yahoo groups message, with a nicely documented setup in a shed behind the house

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Lister_CSOG/message/5999

video : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jz2v4f2UNL0

owners website: http://www.powercubes.com/listers.html

Very interesting reading & video, and you CAN hear the injector "creak"

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General Discussion / Re: Old Style Lister

« on: January 06, 2008, 01:44:05 AM »

Quote from: dmp on January 05, 2008, 11:21:05 PM

Search the membership list for Tryg. He did right by me.

Always looking for someone closer to me. Tryg is not listed in the members list, and his name is only mentioned in 3 posts total, nothing else. Do you have contact info for him ?

Mike (Los Angeles, Calif)

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Original Lister Cs Engines / Re: Really cold start Lister

« on: January 04, 2008, 08:21:25 PM »

found another trick on the web - I've no idea if it works or not -

close off the intake and crank, when you've pumped all the air out, it'll spin a bit faster, and that,
releasing the intake, may have enough RPM to help it fire.

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Original Lister Cs Engines / Re: Really cold start Lister

« on: January 04, 2008, 05:11:08 PM »

Quote from: Stan on January 04, 2008, 04:36:18 PM

Mike STAY AWAY FROM ETHER !! Very bad things happen to diesel engines when highly explosive ether goes off in the cylinder! Others with more love of numbers and equations will undoubtedly fill you in on the exact reason. For me its enough to know that diesel engines have been destroyed by using ether.
Stan

Reasonable amounts. Not inbred hillbilly amounts. Sure, nearly anything can be destroyed with a can of spray ether. I'm speaking of a whiff of it, or is it that bad ? I'm asking. Don't even have an engine yet, but I'll be at about 2000' and 20F in the wintertimes. Shed will not be heated, may have a 12V battery for a glow plug. No AC power.

I see warnings not to use ether with heater grids (I'll have none) because it can light off in the grid.

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Original Lister Cs Engines / Re: Really cold start Lister

« on: January 04, 2008, 04:24:03 PM »

So, what are "approved" starting aids ?

Spray Ether? (in reasonable amounts)
a spritz of gasoline into the intake (couple of drops, not 20 cc)
pan of hot charcoal under crankcase
preheating cooling jacket water
hot air gun directed into intake
lit propane torch into intake (preheat air, not melting the intake)
unlit propane torch (raw propane vapor)
5HP pony motor to spin diesel (when will injector hydrolock the cylinder with fuel ?)

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Original Lister Cs Engines / Re: Proud new owner

« on: January 03, 2008, 03:48:47 PM »

Quote from: Florida Cracker on January 03, 2008, 01:26:50 PM

I have also considered connecting 2 ST1's to it with belts and see how it works out.

Until you get a good engine synchronizer, one will ALWAYS hog the load, and the other will loaf along.

Fairly important in twin engine boats and airplanes, and needed if shafts will be connected - don't count on a belt to provide the loose coupling, it will burn out soon.
http://www.diy-boat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=142&Itemid=49

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General Discussion / Re: Zeitgeist movie

« on: January 03, 2008, 03:41:15 AM »

Quote from: dieseldave on December 30, 2007, 03:48:24 AM

Makes one want to fill a container full of Listeroids and ST Generators,and get them over here FAST! For when S**T hits the fan!

The crop to plant for an energy source is 'INDUSTRIAL HEMP' 100 to 130 gallons of raw oil per acre. Pithy core is 77% cellulose to make alcohol.

I'll call your Hemp, and raise to 200 gallons

"Jatropha is well able to yield as much as 1900 litres of diester per hectare (200 US gallons/acre), largely exceeding the capacity of rapeseed" from Wikipedia. Only slightly poisonous !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatropha_curcas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatropha_oil

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Lister Based Generators / Re: ST-3/5 regulator plans available

« on: December 30, 2007, 12:29:33 AM »

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who is CB? its driving me nuts!

C.M, I have no idea

CB Circuit Board or PCB (printed circuit board)

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Listeroid Engines / Re: Christmas E-Mail from our Friend in India

« on: December 27, 2007, 11:51:27 PM »

Quote from: buickanddeere on December 27, 2007, 08:39:03 PM

Anybody else get a Merry Christmas from our friend at Anand?
That's one high speed deer. Maybe Santa's Village instead of being at the North Pole is a ruse and he's really set up in India? Maybe that's a picture of Rudolf out for a strolll?

They grabbed the wrong photo, thats the one for "Nothing Runs Like a Deer"

Mine came from POWERLINE DIESEL ENGINES, Anand Enterprise

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Everything else / Re: How to test for diesel fuel in the lube oil?

« on: December 23, 2007, 07:26:44 PM »

Quote from: rcavictim on December 21, 2007, 03:00:02 AM

He suggested merely weighing the pot and suspect oil sample before the heating process with a sensitive scale, and then repeating the weight measurement after the light fractions had been boiled away.

And any water that may have gathered in it too.

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Lister Based Generators / Re: ST-3/5 regulator plans available

« on: December 20, 2007, 02:52:06 PM »

Any plans for a PCB for this ? I have a good PCB package I could layout a board with, and a fab house that etches pretty cheap.
p-cad 2006
http://www.pcbexpress.com

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