Chilly here this morning

Looks like we are on the same page Baciffin.
I got me a cup of coffee, it is still dark, I just opened the firebox door to take a look. I will read a few more messages, start a good fire, and then I will do some serious bucking until about 1:00 and then I'll watch a little football.

Bacffin said:

It's in the lower 40's outside this morning. Coffee is on, pine roaring in the stove..and I've only been up for 1/2 hour!! I't is going to be a productive day for sure bucking up some logs

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I know.. Reads 35 up here.

Threw some hemlock in the vigas to get temps back up. My wife's in her busy season... so I go away today, and she's back on Dead Dinosaurs till I get back in a week. I need to use up the HHO, cause it's mostly biodiesel, which is old. THat's what I keep telling myself anyway.

JP

JP, did you have to do anything to your oil boiler to get it to run on biodiesel?

velvetfoot said:

JP, did you have to do anything to your oil boiler to get it to run on biodiesel?

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Yes, and No.

You would get mixed results if just topped er off and ran. SOME of the boilers won't produce a bright enough flame, and the photo eye doesn't SEE it.

Problem solved by painting the inside of the tube with chrome paint.

Eventually... usually around a year, the biodiesel will eat out the natural rubber in your traditional suntec pump. I think I ran mine a full year, then pulled it and put it on the shelf as a backup. I bought a webster pump that's rated for 100% bio.

I also installed a "clean cut" as the suntec had it internal, but the webster did not.

Also put in a nozzle line heater.. Don't think it NEEDEd that, but it was cheap anyway.

Not more than a hundred bucks cost on all that stuff combined.

Fuel costs me about 1.25 a gallon, all in. HHO is 3.50 right now. Pretty easy to pay for.

You can run about 25% bio with NO changes, and never notice it.

JP

Thanks for the info, JP. I tried a few tankfuls of b20 in my former VW TDI Beetle, but got nervous and stopped. I don't plan on making it, but might not be adverse to trying some. Still nervous though.

Reading 14degrees out at 7am. House is a nice toasty warm 74degrees with one little stove burning. Life is good!

velvetfoot said:

Thanks for the info, JP. I tried a few tankfuls of b20 in my former VW TDI Beetle, but got nervous and stopped. I don't plan on making it, but might not be adverse to trying some. Still nervous though.

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Depends on the year of the TDI. You gotta have GOOD fuel for those huge PSI's in those new ones. They are completely intolerant of varying viscosity.

The website for the fuel I make... was all self taught. from memory.. www.biodiesel.infopop.cc or something similar. There is a car forum, but it's not to active. With only 20% bio... you aren't gonna really hurt anything, or save much money. Homebrew is where it's at. But it's not for everybody.

JP

41 here time to get busy getting the stove in order

40 here, ran a small fire overnight, & woke up to 73 in the house. Moving wood up top from the lower seasoning area as soon as the rain quits. A C

schlot said:

Reading 14degrees out at 7am

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Yikes! It got down around 40 here. I fired up an unusual load...Redbud and Persimmon.

schlot said:

Reading 14degrees out at 7am. House is a nice toasty warm 74degrees with one little stove burning. Life is good!

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Wow 14* I think we're about a month or more away from that around here.

scotvl said:

Wow 14* I think we're about a month or more away from that around here.

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Hope "or more". Christmas is soon enough for 14.

schlot said:

Reading 14degrees out at 7am. House is a nice toasty warm 74degrees with one little stove burning. Life is good!

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Looks like you got the brunt of this cold spell. That definitely is cold for this time of the year.

45° & rain here.
Low slow burn, spruce.

Backwoods Savage said:

Looks like you got the brunt of this cold spell. That definitely is cold for this time of the year.

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Yes, it surprised me too. I double checked, but the low was actually 12degrees. Lows in the 30s the rest of week, so we are back to normal.