Heating Van

[native pepper]

I love the expression "which have been proven to be ...." - of course such statements are never accompanied by the evidence. As it happens, the generation that has used aluminium pans to cook in has proven to be the longest living generation of all time! I offer myself and all my relations who lived into their 90's as evidence and none of them had Alzheimers, not that I can remember, anyway.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... sease.html

[native pepper]

Have you really been to my location Bernie, very few people visit our little town, they all go to Port Arthur and pay heaps, when there are much nicer and more revealing places of historical significance to see for free. They are called the coal mines and there are some beautiful peaceful spots around there, especially Lime bay which has camping areas.

You're right, there is no such thing as a little pollution, just pollution. Understand regarding downloads, we used to be on satellite internet, which was expensive, extremely slow and always dropping out. Now we have unlimited fixed wireless NBN, which is cheaper than the lowest sat costs and so much faster. We watch stuff on the net that takes huge amounts of bandwidth and it's all cool. There are 4 people hooked to our NBN connection and speeds don't vary much. Wish we could take it on the road with us, mobile internet is very dear.

[BernieQ2]

Took the ferry over from Kettering , was going on the jet boat ride but pulled out weather was to severe or my back .
Have explored Tassie 4 times my Dad was a Tasmanian Born in Richmond .
have nephew with farm at Uppa Castra .
Bernie .

[native pepper]

Upper Castra is a nice area, haven't been out there for a long time. Went to Wilmot a year or so ago with someone to pick up a truck. My dad was from Sth Hobart and Mum from New Norfolk, I've lived and worked in every state and just can't wait to get back to Tas. But still love travelling overseas to Aus and meeting new and old friends.

[SteveW]

I love the expression "which have been proven to be ...." - of course such statements are never accompanied by the evidence. As it happens, the generation that has used aluminium pans to cook in has proven to be the longest living generation of all time! I offer myself and all my relations who lived into their 90's as evidence and none of them had Alzheimers, not that I can remember, anyway.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... sease.html

Useless information in relation to your argument - no suggestion at all in that article that aluminium accumulation comes from using aluminium cookware. The human body accumulates many metals during our lives - one of the particularly toxic metals that can accumulate is lithium! All things in moderation, I say. Feel free to be spooked by whichever reports you like but better that you don't push your ideas down others throats as if everything you believe applies to everyone else. I'm healthy and happy and past the age of many friends who have left the planet for a whole variety of reasons.

End of discussion from me.

[native pepper]

This below is from the first paragraph of the article and there are many more that I've read over the decades. Getting very angry and accusing me of pushing my ideas onto others, when they are not my ideas is beyond me, but understandable. Denial of reality is a common approach Steve. End of discussion for me to, as I have no need to convince anyone of anything. It was just a discussion point. Our own reality determines where we sit in life, that's what I go by.

"But many scientists says there is not enough evidence to blame the metal, used by thousands for everyday purposes to cook and store food.

However, Professor Chris Exley, from Keele University, says his latest research confirms it does indeed play a role in cognitive decline."

[pet-els]

It was enough reason for the Sydney Water Board in 1995 [approx] to stop using Alum as a filtrate at Prospect Dam and change to Ferric Chloride.

PeterH

[Barto]

I imported one from china fitted it myself fairly straight forward works really well one one problem is the noise the fuel pump make had to make own insulated mounting block to stop ticking noise very please with unit

[nedskelly]

native pepper,
I would be interested to know what VO your friend runs his diesel heater on and does he dilute it to thin it.
The readers in general there is a post somewhere on this forum I think where somebody has imported the Erbascher from the UK at half the cost of buying local
I think

[native pepper]

native pepper,
I would be interested to know what VO your friend runs his diesel heater on and does he dilute it to thin it.
The readers in general there is a post somewhere on this forum I think where somebody has imported the Erbascher from the UK at half the cost of buying local
I think

Vegetable oil is vegetable oil, there are very few seed oils which don't work as a fuel, not sure which ones they are but anything that is used in cooking is used. I use cotton seed, peanut, canola, wild raddish and whatever comes out of the kitchens. To my knowledge, he mostly doesn't use anything to thin the oil, but have seem him add biodiesel or dino when it has beeb very cold. I prefer the wood heater in the bus, can't stand the smell of a diesel heater and the mates using vo, smells terrible so we park a long way from anyone using a fuel diesel heater. Nothing like waking in the morning to see a low cloud of diesel fumes hanging around the camping area on a cold morning. At least our smoke is released higher than the bus ands tends to drift away quickly. Was told wood smoke of lighter than diesel fumes, but don't know if that's is true or whether some types of smoke are heavier than others.


Know a couple of people who heat their homes with vo, I prefer to use it in my engines which saves us a few thousand dollars a year and means we can lower the price of our gigs and play in more isolated areas, that rarely or never get any entertainment. When using VO in your vehicle you have to preheat it, we use heat exchangers from the engine cooling system to do that and also add either BD (biodiesel) or dino to thin the oil in the tank so it is easily pulled through the system. I use an extra fuel pump for that to relieve pressure on the iP pump and we run the oil through in line prefilters to catch any junk that may have been created by temp changes etc.