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VK2TV > FUEL 30.01.08 05:48l 36 Lines 1007 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: VK6BE > gas producers
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From: VK2TV@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
To : FUEL@WW
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# On : 1/30/2008 14:42:13
# UTC: 1/30/2008 3:42:13 A
>From: VK3API@VK3API.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
>To : FUEL@WW
>
>
>Hi Warren and others,
>
>When I was a wee small lad (around the 1940's) we also had a vehicle
>powered by a gas producer but apart from all the usual matrials used for
>producing the gas we used wheat.
>
>It produced a good quality gas and as Warren says lots of tar. Journeys
>were measured in wheatbags per journey not liters or miles per gallon.
>
>On the journey he biggest problem was disposing of the spent fuel without
>starting a bushfire.
>
>The cars strted on petrol but once running that was it. No changing to
>petrol just drop back to a lower gear ans move a lot slower.
> Regards Tony VK3API
>
>73 - Tony, VK3API @ VK3FBD.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
And the further you went the slower you went because the fireman got tired!
Cheers ... Ray vk2tv
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