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Old 30th August 2019, 05:22
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G'day Cliff,
You need a lot of stale fish and chips oil to produce bio fuel.
A brushless motor (no motor brush arcing permitted or KABOOM) to mix the solution.
Soap and bio fuel being the result, or singed eyebrows.
I know some bush bashers that converted their 4wds to bio fuel.
Less oomph produced from the fuel, plus they had to cart the fuel in jerry cans with them in a trailer.
As to how much fuel a weasel consumes, yes it all depends upon the donk and just how heavy the train is.
Plus, the gradients encountered en route.
Plus how aggressive the hogger is with the controls.
I recollect that back under the Good ole Days regime here, Lithgow crews were not permitted to work EAST (156 kms) to smog hollow Sydney with less than 1500 litres in the tank.
When you delve down into the depths of the fuel tank you are then sucking up the residue gunge lurking in there.
That clogs fuel filters and injectors etc.
But, once we got capitalized, trains began to run outa fuel and or oil.
Gotta cut costs, so NO going into loco to top up the fuel tank or sump oil.
Keep the thing rolling until it runs outa fuel or oil.
I also know that much angst was exhibited by nutters here when our monster soot belcher went stomping.
Dragged by weasels, how dare they.
COAL today is expensive to obtain by hysterical mobs.
And a soot belcher does consume a lot of it when percolating many miles.
The train comprising not only weasels to drag it, but also an open wagon of bags of coal plus a water gin.
Very few water columns here exist now days.
So, to top up the water tank, the local firies must be called out.
Such all adds to the cost of the hysterical tour.
Steve.
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