[TheForge] eco coke OT:

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The Backwoodsman Magazine has had articles on this subject before and even had some info on how to set up cars to run this way.  I'm sure that they would have to be an older style car with carbs and not a fuel injected model.
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Actually Jerry;
There were wood powered cars that burned the volatiles off wood in both the US and Germany in WW2.
They must have made charcoal as a by-product.
Of course the Stanley Steamer which burned either was a very impressive car in it's day.

On May 26, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:

> Get any video Pete? A neighbor of mine a few decades ago had a 55gl drum 
> size kiln he fired with waste oil and not only managed to blow it over a 
> reasonable area a couple times but melted it down once, literally.
> 
> Oil is SO much more volatile than (most) solid fuels. Guess I'll stop trying 
> to design a charcoal powered auto.
> 
> Jer
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> 
>> The danger isn't a gradual build up of pressure probably,
>> Rather it's if the " brown smoke" of volatiles gets just enough oxy and 
>> flashes.
>> A friend , Al( RIP) was firing a VW sized pottery kiln, years ago. He was 
>> using drain oil as fuel,
>> and had a modest little fire going, "candling" the kiln all night.
>> When he turned on the blowers, there was a brief puff of heavy brown 
>> smoke, a heavy whumph!
>> and the kiln went flying in all directions.
>> Some of the bricks flew over 100 feet and Al's full beard, eyebrows and 
>> hair evaporated.
>> I was about 70' away and we did some hasty fire control while Al went 
>> straight to his water tank.
>> He was face down in the water, coming up only for breath, for a couple of 
>> hours.
>> No lasting damage to Al, except his craftsman's pride.
>> 
> 
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