Okayyyyy! Big-time slap down! That's why I hate to ask anything. The
"rocket scientist" thing? It was a joke, darlin'. A joke.
Lighten up.
Quinn
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Addison
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] BD as Lube oil for two stroke gasoline engine
Hi Quinn
>Can someone please tell me what "2T" means in regards to oil? Is it what
we
>here in GA call "2-cycle" oil? Or am I way off base? Often I follow
these
>threads with only the faintest glimpse of what is going on because of the
>'insider lingo.' (Chemistry, engines, etc...)
>
>No, Keith, you don't have to be a rocket scientist. But I bet it would
>help. ; )
I bet it wouldn't. More likely it'd be largely or entirely
superfluous, perhaps even a hindrance - this is Appropriate
Technology stuff, KISS, which rocket science isn't too good at. Would
it help a whole lot in figuring how to clean up the wash-water in a
simple greywater system? Or rigging a washing tank from a 55-gal drum
or a plastic garbage bucket or defunct washing machine whatever you
happen to find lying about the place? This stuff isn't much more
complicated than baking bread, if any. I'm a journalist, not a
techie, I don't have any technical training of any kind, I think the
same applies to many/most biofuellers. It doesn't stop you from
learning. There's a lot to learn (as there is about baking bread),
but I don't think there's anything at our website that you won't be
able to understand because you don't have technical qualifications -
understand and do. "We're not chemists, and if we can make it anyone
can," it says at Journey to Forever. "Anybody can make biodiesel.
It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen... " "It's all quite
simple really, thousands of people are doing it, very few of them are
chemists or technicians, and there's nothing a layman can't
understand, and do, and do it well." We wrote that four and a half
years ago, just as true now as it was then. Biodiesel certainly isn't
my main interest in life (nor JtF's either, come to that), if I can
do it, so can you.
Anyway, it's not "insider lingo", there's not too much of that here.
For instance, I guess this would be a dumb question for an American:
what's "2-cycle" oil? (Is that what you use on a bicycle? Do you need
a different type of oil for tricycles?) Do you know what "DERV" is?
It's not insider tech-jargon, everybody in Britain knows what DERV is
- petroleum diesel fuel (though it stands for Diesel Engine Road
Vehicle). Do you know what an MoT is? This is the global Internet,
that's all, and it's a global subject.
I just got totally confused on another list, and another topic,
because an American there was talking about TN and sustainability.
What kind of organic growing system is "TN"? Never heard of it.
(Where's "GA"? Never heard of that either.)
If you search for "2T oil" at Google, the first hit you get tells you
it's 2-stroke oil. Do you talk about 2-strokes in the US, or only
2-cycle?
Best
Keith
>Thanks,,
>Quinn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alexander P. Loinaz
> To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [biofuel] BD as Lube oil for two stroke gasoline engine
>
>
> Hi Keith,
>
> The use of biodiesel as 2T replacement was first used by a group when
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