Okay, so how come...
Submitted: Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 20:24
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Lone Wolf
... we have Gas Stoves, and Dual Fuel Stoves, but don't see Diesel Stoves?
I was at the Kimberly Kamper website, and they have a diesel run heater as an option.
What with the prevalence of diesel vehicles being sold, and the need for carrying less of differing fuels, are we there yet?
Cheers
I'm gonna
cook my unmodified bio food on my bio diesel stove, and sit bio
big tree, and drink a bio wine Wolf
Reply By: Willem - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 20:52
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 20:52
Probably because burning diesel is too smelly. Having a diesel truck is bad enough but having that diesel odour in ones tucker...yuk! Other fuels burn cleanly using the term cleanly loosely...if you get my drift....:o)
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Follow Up By: GOB & denny vic member - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:00
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:00
goodday willem
were you just parked in that spot in your picture or is it a bogged nissan???????? lol
steve
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Follow Up By: Willem - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:26
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:26
G'day Steve
As Trip Leader I had to make way for the others to come through and stopped in the deep spot on Canunda Beach. We were having a look at something and
the beach proved a bit soft. I actually drove out in Low Range..no worries.... those Coopers with 15psi act like paddle
wheels :o)
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Reply By: Wayne (NSW) - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:03
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:03
Lone,
I feel that I know you
well enough to call you by your first name now.
As far as diesel space heaters go I have seen a few around in workshops. They fill the
tank with anything that might burn and a bit of diesel and set light to it. It is great for a large area and burns slow. As far as a stove on diesel I think that it would have to be under pressure like the Dual fuel Stove to get enough heat to
cook with and also to be able to adjust the flame. Now I know that for the diesel motor to work, in other word for the diesel fuel to explode and make the pistons go up and down it must have heat and pressure. The engine block can handle this because of the size and weight so I would think that if you wanted a 2 burner diesel stove it would be about 1/3 the size of any 6 cylinder diesel motor on the market to-day.
Wayne
Wayne
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Follow Up By: theshadows - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:16
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:16
many years ago I had a pressure stove that worked on kero ,petrol and diesal. It want to bad smal about 4 kg single burner with 4 jets depending on what fuel the diesal jet also had a screen on it helping to atomise the fuel.
The reason I stopped using it......couldnt get parts.....take 15 minutes of hard pumping to pressure the main vessal and the need of metho to get the top plumping up to heat. It took about 30 minutes to get the damn stove up and running with cup of metho.
the other proplem was what ever you used your food tasted the same.
ever had nice tuna stew ala ULP spices........
shadow
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Reply By: hoyks - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:20
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:20
what about one of these? MSA Stove
runs on almost anything. Not exactly the easiest thing to use compared to a gas stove.
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Reply By: Brian - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:49
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 21:49
We have a Webasto diesel heater in our caravan, it is about the size of a shoe box and puts out heat similar to a 240 volt 2400watt electrical blow heater, but ours allows us to be nice and warm anywhere at anytime. It uses about 1 litre of diesel in 8 hours and the fan uses about 2 amps.
Brian
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Reply By: fisho64 - Tuesday, Nov 02, 2004 at 00:27
Tuesday, Nov 02, 2004 at 00:27
haventseen any in oz but most of the fishing boats we have built for NZ hve specified diesel stoves and heaters and these need to be sourced from NZ or europe. companys like Eberspacher make them and they are very efficient and about the size of a shoebox
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Reply By: Member - Toonfish - Tuesday, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:15
Tuesday, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:15
reminds me of the (choofer)
water immersion heaters we use in the army!
if the fuel was drpiing too fast choof !!!! up shot the flue sometimes 20 metres in the air.
good way to scare the rookies :).
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Follow Up By: Rick Blaine - Tuesday, Nov 02, 2004 at 16:38
Tuesday, Nov 02, 2004 at 16:38
Oh the memories...... we had all our hot
water for showers etc at Nui Dat provided by a cleverly homemade giant choofer....rarely gave any troubleunless someone was intoxicated....
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