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Re: Problems with 1HDT on SVO
As a chemist, surely you would know the attributes of ATF and how it operates in an engine. As with non synthetic 2 stroke, they have cleansing agents in them and those contribute greatly to cleaning the fuel system, especially as they are designed to clean when hot and a HE does that very well. Another trick is to get your engine to operating temp, rev it up and spray water mist into the inlet, which does a great job of steam cleaning the cylinders.
Using SVO, is a matter of convenience and economics. Have run engines on BD and to me, it is more hassle than using VO, even though I make BD as a starter fuel. It costs me zero to use SVO, except for the start and shutdown fuel. BD costs me about 35c lt. Using VO costs me a couple of litres of start fuel even if I drive 500klms in a day, so 7oc or $3. If I was to run 500klms on BD, the cost would be much more and on dino, 5 times as much.
Just completed a 5 driving days trip of over 4000klms in my 1hdt, the BD used cost about $1.50 starter, $6 shutdown and that's it. Using dino would have cost me about $8 startup and $18 shutdown, which is still much cheaper than running on BD.
Work involved, with BD. heating the crap from my centrifuge then turning it into BD takes say 5hrs work to produce 100lt ready for the engine which doesn't include the centrifuge work. Plus the BD is not usable for at least a couple of weeks for settling etc.
With VO, it takes me 20 minutes to fill the centrifuge tank and 5 minutes to clean the centrifuges and filters for 100-200lt. That's it, the next step is pump it into the vehicle or storage tank. With the 1hdt, its an automatic switch over, other engines use manual valves, because of the trouble I've had with auto switching. Changing a filter takes 1 minute and that is mostly done when fueling, only changed my inline filter on the trip at the start and when returning home and it probably didn't need changing. But at a cost of less than a dollar a filter, it's nothing and all the dirty filters are recycled after being flushed out. I use those filters on my machinery and generators, if they fail not struck on the road somewhere.
I have no education, left school homeless at 8. But even someone like me can work out the economics and research stuff, then get a good return for the effort. May not understand the technicalities, but most certainly understand the practicalities in operation.
Why am I laughing at you, because you seem to think because you've been overeducated into ideological technical slavery, you know it all, so always miss the simple reality of things. I prefer simple reality to the deluded delusions, the educated psychopaths are locked into.
When flushing with ATF/2 stroke, haven't noticed much smoke at all. With 2stroke there seems more smoke but only when standing still., when moving none at all, but you can feel the engine improving.
As a chemist, surely you would know the attributes of ATF and how it operates in an engine. As with non synthetic 2 stroke, they have cleansing agents in them and those contribute greatly to cleaning the fuel system, especially as they are designed to clean when hot and a HE does that very well. Another trick is to get your engine to operating temp, rev it up and spray water mist into the inlet, which does a great job of steam cleaning the cylinders.
Using SVO, is a matter of convenience and economics. Have run engines on BD and to me, it is more hassle than using VO, even though I make BD as a starter fuel. It costs me zero to use SVO, except for the start and shutdown fuel. BD costs me about 35c lt. Using VO costs me a couple of litres of start fuel even if I drive 500klms in a day, so 7oc or $3. If I was to run 500klms on BD, the cost would be much more and on dino, 5 times as much.
Just completed a 5 driving days trip of over 4000klms in my 1hdt, the BD used cost about $1.50 starter, $6 shutdown and that's it. Using dino would have cost me about $8 startup and $18 shutdown, which is still much cheaper than running on BD.
Work involved, with BD. heating the crap from my centrifuge then turning it into BD takes say 5hrs work to produce 100lt ready for the engine which doesn't include the centrifuge work. Plus the BD is not usable for at least a couple of weeks for settling etc.
With VO, it takes me 20 minutes to fill the centrifuge tank and 5 minutes to clean the centrifuges and filters for 100-200lt. That's it, the next step is pump it into the vehicle or storage tank. With the 1hdt, its an automatic switch over, other engines use manual valves, because of the trouble I've had with auto switching. Changing a filter takes 1 minute and that is mostly done when fueling, only changed my inline filter on the trip at the start and when returning home and it probably didn't need changing. But at a cost of less than a dollar a filter, it's nothing and all the dirty filters are recycled after being flushed out. I use those filters on my machinery and generators, if they fail not struck on the road somewhere.
I have no education, left school homeless at 8. But even someone like me can work out the economics and research stuff, then get a good return for the effort. May not understand the technicalities, but most certainly understand the practicalities in operation.
Why am I laughing at you, because you seem to think because you've been overeducated into ideological technical slavery, you know it all, so always miss the simple reality of things. I prefer simple reality to the deluded delusions, the educated psychopaths are locked into.
When flushing with ATF/2 stroke, haven't noticed much smoke at all. With 2stroke there seems more smoke but only when standing still., when moving none at all, but you can feel the engine improving.
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