Re: [biofuel] Re: home heating oil

2002-07-11 Thread Greg and April
. - Original Message - From: girl_mark_fire [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 23:47 Subject: [biofuel] Re: home heating oil I have used plenty of biodiesel in a Whisperlite XGK cookstove (that's a tiny multifuel backpacker stove that uses diesel

[biofuel] Re: home heating oil

2002-07-10 Thread girl_mark_fire
Does anyone know more about this supposed wicking problem? One reply I got off list talked about using biodiesel in a home heater (didn't hve too much details about what design the thing was, though) but said they ahd to start it on dinodiesel and that SVO didn't work at all. I've heard

Re: [biofuel] Re: home heating oil

2002-07-10 Thread henning
Hallo Mark, I think biodiesel can be used easily in wick type stoves and lamps. SVO on the other hand cannot be used with wicks, because its viscosity is too high, it does not get transported by the capillary forces, like kerosene. I tried to explain this facts in a small drawing, which you

Re: [biofuel] Re: home heating oil

2002-07-10 Thread John Venema
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: home heating oil Hallo Mark, I think biodiesel can be used easily in wick type stoves and lamps. SVO on the other hand cannot be used with wicks, because its viscosity is too high, it does not get transported by the capillary

Re: [biofuel] Re: home heating oil

2002-07-10 Thread rmcphe8888
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Re: [biofuel] Re: home heating oil

2002-07-10 Thread sdfgs fdgsd
] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: home heating oil Hallo Mark, I think biodiesel can be used easily in wick type stoves and lamps. SVO on the other hand cannot be used with wicks, because its viscosity is too high, it does not get

[biofuel] Re: home heating oil

2002-07-10 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Mark Does anyone know more about this supposed wicking problem? People say different things, but most seem to agree that biodiesel won't travel up a wick effectively. I don't know why, you'd think it would - it seems to penetrate just about anything, it's the slipperiest stuff I've