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Top 10 most popular wood-burning and multifuel stoves
openspaceman replied to BowlandStoves's topic in General chat
Okay first the reason for the "defra kit" is there to ensure a secondary flame is ensured all the time volatiles are still being evolved by the logs, otherwise they smoulder' smouldering results in a few problems. As long as only over fire air is provided (often by the "defra kit") the char will then burn out slowly but unlikely to burn through the night. This is why I depend on heat stored in the brickwork of my chimney, the Swedes have done this for years by encasing their stoves from floor to ceiling with heavy tiles, the americans have reinvented this as the masonry stove. It may just be your flue has too much draw, on commercial stuff we used flue draught stabilisers which automatically bled air into the flue to reduce the draw/depression caused by the column of less dense flue gases above. I don't know if they are approved for domestic wood stoves. -
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openspaceman replied to Paul201t's topic in Rigging and roping
I wish I knew that when I used to tip up there for saws -
Have you logged the serial numbers on Arbsafe?
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Top 10 most popular wood-burning and multifuel stoves
openspaceman replied to BowlandStoves's topic in General chat
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IME as long as the logs are decently stacked and inside the polytunnel by end of May in my part of England they are below 20% by autumn with natural air movement and diffusion. You only have to enhance air movement if you need to run a number of batches in the drying season, even then you may need a bit of additional heat to make best use of the air movement. Others in more humid areas claim this is not possible but that's not necessarily a problem as a modern brick/refractory lined stove will burn 25% mc logs without visible smoke, though I grant below 20% is harder to produce smoke.
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What do you expect the output of the turbine to be doing, heating, air circulation or both? Do you intend to have a continuing throughput or will the logs also be stored in the polytunnel before use/sale? Big J has pointed out the constraints
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Leonid I do not think people on this forum understand your question. No one speaks Moldovan or Romanian. Are you saying you used Stihl Ultra two stroke oil and now the piston has seized/motor incautado? Yet before it ran well on Stihl HP oil?
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It's 10 tonne a day. However it would not include the fly tipped material that is not untreated vegetative material, nor in fact if it has been transported to the site. In practice...
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Yes but sometimes they can connect your supply to a lower tapping on the transformer if you are on a different spur from the ones far off. Replace incandescent lights with LEDs, they have their own inbuilt protection.
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Whatever you choose don't get one of those Stehr Puch derived Mercedes?
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It's a good job this is in the male chauvinist only section of the forum
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They look like english to me but I can't tell pedunclate from sessile in the absence of acorns and/or leaves. Turkey tends to have a significantly wider sapwood band and darker heartwood plus the bark is greyer and a pinkish tinge showing through the fissures.
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I've not much practical knowledge of kilning boards but would have thought it could easily over heat and surface check without better humidity control.
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What you say seems more logical. What do you intend to dry? If it's boards you need better controls If it's firewood it's too complicated and why use plywood when the whole front could be glazed?
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I would clean the shaft as best you can first and use a bit of oil and tap the outer lightly as you screw in. Avoid tapping near the Vee grooves.
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Which is what @dig-dug-danfound in a recent thread
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It's a long time since I did anything with taperlocks but the two screws opposite each other pull the tapers together. The third hole has only half a thread in it. you put one of the screw into this and tighten and it drives the two bits of the taper apart.
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That's the problem, no longer having the energy to keep moving Relatively easily solved, I wouldn't mind going for the winter months but once it get's near 25C I want home
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This one amused me
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I look in the mirror and my dad on his deathbed looks back at me
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Yes Nice Well when I was 16 the telescopic forks were in fashion, at the time Enfield had produced a 5 speed 250 with a leading link too, but it didn't look the part, so I had the engine/gearbox in a 350 bullet frame. The Super five would have handled better (I never rode one but opinion since is such). Later Enfield produced the Continnetal GT with the super five engine and gearbox to appeal to fashion. BTW I remember the earlier Kawasaki H1 because my mate passed his test and rocked up to Kawasaki Woking on his Matchless 250 and asked for a test drive. He took it up the road and opened it up on the first straight bit, front wheel lifted, he lost control and fell off the back, bike went through the hedge and he bumped along the road. He became, and still is, the most litigious person I know and successfully sued the dealership for damages on the grounds they should never have allowed him to test drive such a powerful bike.
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but you were a maniac and never closed the throttle so fuel was always getting to the engine ?. In truth nor did I but as stated I avoided closed throttle overrun. The engine is under less load so probably enough lubrication from the tickover setting if not revving too high. The front forks handled bumpy corners better than my Enfield.
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Me too and a fascinating thread it was too, it was before I joined and many names no longer posting.
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I think the Teles I lent to an agricultural college near Liverpool and never got back was similar, the bar had 3 positions, upright, 45 degrees and horizontal.
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Yes I had some of them like that, I preferred to mix my own at the petrol station rather than trust the 2t dispenser by the pump. Yes very smoky but even cars in those days would have a blue haze, especially when coming back on the sauce. Then they started fitting valve stem seals. I thinned the copper gasket on the Enfield and did much the same but the star rating didn't exist then, I think Cleveland discol had the highest octane rating (not including avgas) because of the methanol?? I agree about two strokes best used only in small hand held devices nowadays.
