Subject: Ideas for rural living.

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 21:41:33 GMT

Im not sure if this is the right area, or maybe it is for this..

To save on money and such. Have two tanks, one full of gasoline, the other of
diesel, start the boat/engine on the gasolien, one you get the engine hot
enough, switch to diesel. It works.. A freidn or two does it.. not sure what
they use for plugs/selenoid and such, and also maintenance..

Does anyoen know a good source for Hemp Oil? Bulk? just curious..
No Im not going to get stoned on hemp/pot.. 
A friend once told me, that diesel engines were originally designed to burn
hemp oil and not diesel..

Anyone have any rural tricks for life? then post them here?

Im tired so Im off to sleep or ... other less technical endevours..

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Ghost Wheel - [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Brainwave Surfer)
Date: 15 Jul 93 09:19:41 -0400

> Ghost Wheel - [email-masked]

I have the facts on this one!!!!  The Diesel engines ware invented
in Germany just before WW I by Rudolf Diesel.  They were originally
designed to burn finely powered coal, pumped in by a compressed air
stream.  The coal was given up as it was too high octane, and the engines
kept exploding.  The Diesel was the key to the success of the u-boats
in WWI, as the other subs all had either gas engines or steam.
Mr. Diesel attemped to flee to England just before the war, and got
on the boat.  He never got off.  People suppose the equivalent of
Gestapo back then got him to feed the sharks..

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From: [email-masked] (Hal Cheney)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 20:37:16 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] 
(Brainwave Surfer) writes:
>...The Diesel engines ware invented
>in Germany just before WW I by Rudolf Diesel.  
>...

:-)
At age 64 I've reached the stage where "collapsing" past decades into
"just" a few years has started to bother me.  Diesel was issued his
patent for his engine in 1892 and built his first successful one in
1897.  Twenty-four years span the time between his patent and the
beginning of WWI.  Our historical perspective is still close enough
to these events, I hope, for 1892 not to be _just_ before WWI.
:-)
Hal Cheney