openspaceman
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Yes they will lose some but doubtful it will be enough even with decent air flow. It's the summer months May to October when most drying takes place.@cessna why not weigh a billet mark it and pull it out to weigh again in a month, as long as you keep rain off it. -
Trouble with that is that it is aluminium under the plating and that will fizz.
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I remember his design, a similar rotating valve in the head but it was conical. At the end of 1940s the piston engine had just about peaked with things like the rotary valved sabre and even the diesel nomad but jets just eclipsed them. Much of the reason the techniques (other than multiple valves per cylinder and double overhead cams which are ubiquitous now) didn't transfer to commercial engines was the reliability and in the case of rotary valves and uniflow engines oil consumption. Valve stem seals and tighter bore tolerances have virtually eliminated oil consumption on engines now compared with the 60s when there would be a plume of blue smoke from cars waiting at traffic lights.
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I like the look of them too, @Billhook on here has built one with a refinement to ensure the log drops cleanly before the next pass
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Yes once I zoomed in it does look like the plating has come off, it is only about 0.4mm thick IIRC.
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I don't know but if you move the chimney away from the ridge why not stay double skin stainless? Poujolat do a range of prefabricated false chimneys but I bet they are expensive.
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Yes the party wall act would need to be considered.
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I would say those six little patches of grey could well still be aluminium pick up. Can you smear some oven cleaning gel over them with a cotton bud and see if it turns white? I use Oven Mate | Oven Cleaners & Cleaning Equipment WWW.LAKELAND.CO.UK Shop our range of Oven Mate cleaners & cleaning equipment. Powerful formulas leave ovens, microwaves & hobs looking... and just do it repeatedly until it stays clear.
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While @spuddog0507looks you may like to peruse https://cdn.forestresearch.gov.uk/1975/03/fcbk039.pdf I think table 66 will give you much of what you are looking for
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In the days before tachos and licences were good for 7.5 tonnes the limit was 35cwt unladen weight for car mot test and light goods tax, you could just about get under this with a dropside and single wheels as long as it had a petrol engine. I suspect the next size up was 3 tonnes unladen but I never had one. So until diesels became ubiquitous you could just about carry 2 tonne legally before needing an O licence.
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I think you have it, a single skin would normally rise up to 400mm vertically then the adapter to the twin wall. It looks like the bespoke wall/register plate dictates the angle and possibly they have moved the stove a bit further away from the wall as a result.
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As well as my own I did list two items stolen from the firm I was working for at the time but the owner did not give me permission t list all the assets, there were hundreds and it would have taken a lot of time.
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Detect wood burning stove indoor pollution
openspaceman replied to coo1guy's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Yes but I think it is the act of crushing the leaves which produces it, which is why I wouldn't shovel chipped laurel in an enclosed space. Cyanide is highly reactive so I doubt it would survive a fire. Yew contains an alkaloid poison, smoke from putting fresh foliage on a fire and inhaling is supposed to contain the poison. I doubt it but avoiding dense smoke is sensible anyway. Forty years ago an NT forest worker was tasked with burning yew clippings and took ill, he never worked again and was subsequently evicted from his tied cottage, I never got to know the reasons for this. -
All of us that benefited from the science and technology that has developed in the last 100 years That is the function of business in a capitalist society, not that I agree with it it is just the way it is Happy new year you true blue but pinko socialist 🙂
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I think you are right about the 545 it is a nice saw, the 550 is more revvy and powerful and probably won't last as long but would pay for itself in extra production in old school forestry
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I have several items on the database, including two that were stolen from the old firm in 2017. I also have a couple of pieces of Stihl equipment that were marked and micro dotted as part of a Stihl trial with the cesar plant database. I see now you can buy a bulk registration, get q code transfers, microdot paint and rfid tags for small equipment for about 15 quid a saw. According to cesar the biggest deterrent is painting the kit non standard and the problem police have is identifying stolen equipment and returning it to the owner if the serial number has been removed. In which case they have to return it to known thieves. No matter how convincing the reason given for a serial number to be missing 90% of the time the machine will have been stolen.
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Not much point heating it and having nowhere to let the moist air out and those bricks don't look like they will pass much air. Say you have a stack of about 1.5m3 of small split sitka, that will need to lose 500kg of water. In summer at about 20C and RH of 50% each m3 of air will pick up around 10 grams of water until saturated at RH 100%, so 50,000 m3 of air would need to pass through the stack and leave it saturated and I cannot see that happening.
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Well ambient summer air has easily enough moisture capacity to do it so getting it past the logs is the only problem. Black chimney attached to the 6 X 2 openings??
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You need to read the DTC codes. I know nothing about ivecos but I did block a 2003 ford focus egr with a £1 coin successfully and that had no pressure sensors. I thought only later engines with DPFs needed to emulate the pressure signal and would suspect there is a fault with another sensor.
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Yes and yes If we are still talking fresh felled sitka then it will half its weight as it loses moisture from 60% to 20% best for burning. All that water has to be carried away by airflow so as Dan says the garage will need openings at both ends all summer at the least.
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Yes and we agree about that, this russian atrocity has just proven that we can never be one big happy family and should have certain strategic industries that remain free of foreign control. Bearing in mind the french government totally own the company in charge of building new nuclear power stations here and their pettiness over brexit and launching rubber boats here.
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non sequitur but at least you didn't bring the curse into it, apart from that we of course differ. My gripe with all this RE is that we let the bankers decide, albeit indirectly, that we didn't do it ourselves.
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I have no idea who decides, it will probably be an AI algoritm, not so much to switch it off but more to delay which households, on which phase, from the substation can start charging or heating. The aim is to spread the instantaneous load such that everyone gets the same time to charge or heat in the off peak period. With wind, as at 19:45 26/12/22, providing half of UK electricity, 16GW worth, followed by nuclear from here and France doing 25% and gas gently providing 2.3GW it may well be that the wind generators will need to be curtailed tonight when the demand drops and this unpredictability is the reason for wanting to shift loads to off peak periods. Plus of course the grid and distribution network has to cope too.
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It can definitely be turned off remotely but I have not hear anyone it has happened to yet.
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I wonder if that is just a remote reader, like we have on water meters and unlike the cellphone sim based transmitters smart electricity meters use here. I believe from what has been said on another forum that the French have less tolerance of homes drawing more than the amount of electricity the system allots for them and cuts off if it is exceeded at the consumer unit, requiring a visit to reset it. Our system allow for diversity and should allow any house to draw 15kW but not if everyone does so at the same time. With electricity demand for car charging, heat pumps and electric cooking set to increase this is why having smart meters that can stagger these overnight loads will be necessary.
