[TheForge] Re: fire piston

[John Husvar]

Y'all sittin' 'round arguing why it will or won't work would have to look
pretty funny to some aboriginal happily starting his morning cook fire with
one. 

They work, darnit!:)

Fella named "Gunner" on Usenet News made some of steel. Those worked too. :)

 

On 6/8/06 3:04 PM, "robert hensarling" <rhrocker at hilconet.com> wrote:

> Right!  I'm with you!
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: fire piston
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>> robert hensarling wrote:
>> 
>>> It just seems to me that grass, etc, wouldn't provide the sudden
>>> explosion that's seen with a diesel, but then again, these guys
>>> weren't trying out for the Indy, they wanted to cook that prong and roo!
>> 
>> Its not an internal combustion engine, there is no power stroke to
>> manage.   If just the edges of the small fragments of tinder ignite,
>> that is all that i necessary.
>> 
>> Charles
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