BINGO!!!  I've been trying to figure out how to get my 6-1 over the fence into the back yard!      Leland

Depleted uranium is only depleted enough that it didn't work for powering a reactor anymore.  It is radioactive waste from nuculer power plants that they can't dispose of safely because of it's extremely long half life.  Instead of burying it deep underground to try and keep it from causing damage to life forms, some idiots decided to spread it all around the surface.  They might think that by diluting it it will become safer but that is not true!  DU is the definition of a WMD!  Ask some scientists who know the subject or some soldiers who have been around it.  I have to admit that there is an aspect of evil genius to the "fight them there so we don't have to fight them here" viewpoint but it seems that that arguement came up to try and defend aginst the lies that were used to start the Iraq war.  I didn't hear that line until well after the glory started to fade and the body count started get embarrasing.  I think the money spent on war would be much better spent on our own people and country.  Think of what we could have done with even a fraction of this money spent here; it makes me sick to think about it.  Especially when if you asked an Iraqi if they were better off under Saddam or under occupation they will say "Saddam".                                                          Leland

Depleted uranium is only depleted enough that it didn't work for powering a reactor anymore.  It is radioactive waste from nuculer power plants that they can't dispose of safely because of it's extremely long half life.  Instead of burying it deep underground to try and keep it from causing damage to life forms, some idiots decided to spread it all around the surface.  They might think that by diluting it it will become safer but that is not true!  DU is the definition of a WMD!  Ask some scientists who know the subject or some soldiers who have been around it.  I have to admit that there is an aspect of evil genius to the "fight them there so we don't have to fight them here" viewpoint but it seems that that arguement came up to try and defend aginst the lies that were used to start the Iraq war.  I didn't hear that line until well after the glory started to fade and the body count started get embarrasing.  I think the money spent on war would be much better spent on our own people and country.  Think of what we could have done with even a fraction of this money spent here; it makes me sick to think about it.  Especially when if you asked an Iraqi if they were better off under Saddam or under occupation they will say "Saddam".                                                          Leland

I live 100 miles North of San Francisco in Northern California.  Almost the middle of nowhere for California.  It seems most people don't bother to put any info with their avatars.

Water that has been boiled on high heat for a few minutes will penetrate hard rust better than any oil or solvent known to man. It's an old gunsmiths trick that works. Rust melts away and releases it's 'hold'.

I'm curious about how this works; do you pour the water on the rusted parts while it's still boiling hot?  Does the tempeture change help split the parts apart?  If you let the water cool down before you pour it on the rust what does boiling the water do that helps disolve the rust?  Thanks for the information!  Leland

I'm patting myself on the back for having the good sense to jump in on the parts order mkduchman placed with Power Anand through Atul.  I'm very happy with the quality of the parts and the way they were packed and labled.  I got boxes 11 & 12 a couple of weeks ago and would definitely deal with Atul again.  It seems Atul and Power Anand are the good folks to buy from in Rakojt.  Thanks Melvin--- and anyone else involved, for putting the order together and doing all the work to make it happen!  Leland

I'm intending to try to capture heat from the exaust of my 6/1 but haven't settled on exactly what I'm going to do yet.  Whenever you burn a fossil fuel (not sure about bio-diesel or waste vegoil) you make moisture and acids as some of the by-products.  If you have a long run of pipe that cools the exaust below the condensing tempeture of the water vapor you will rust out steel pipes in short order.  The manufacturers who make heaters make sure that the exaust gasses stay hot all the way to the outside of your house to keep the flue or whatever from coroding and sooting up.  I see lots of problems with trying to capture the heat from the exaust of my 6/1 and having any kind of reasonable maintenance and material times.  I'm thinking of making a type of water-lift muffler out of an old stainless steel pool filter that will trap most of the moisture, soot, oil and other crud and then route the gasses up through a stainless tube and shell heat exchanger.  I scrounged the parts or else this would never make economic sense and only time will tell if the heat gained is worth the maintainence hassel.  I'm hoping to scrub the smell as well as the heat out of the exaust.  Getting rid of the 5 to 20 gallons toxic waste water left in the filter tank will be a hassel but I think I can evaporate it down to a very small volume.  I'm just getting started putting all the pieces of my gen set together so I won't know how well it works for a long time yet, probably a lot of work for what is gained but I do this kind of thing for fun.