Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Pipe for Cooling Rack

Today I had to fetch ten pieces of 20 foot pipe, from our local gate company. Moving material that long is not trivial, especially when it is round and would like to roll off. Here's the solution I ended up with:





This worked quite well. The gate place was only a few miles away, so we

Monday, June 27, 2011

Fajitas



One more post today. I mentioned earlier that we were having fajitas for the birthday girl's supper; here are the mouthwatering pictures.


The spread. Fajitas, tortillas, pico de gallo. black beans, chips with salsa and guacamole.

Woodgas Carburetor

I have been working on the carburetor. It's not a carb in the true sense, since we are not atomizing liquid fuel. Woodgas enters the engine in gaseous state, so the gas needs only to be mixed with the air in the right proportions. I built a device to do this. Basically a carb throttle and choke, with a side entrance for the woodgas. Here it is painted:



I cut my own gaskets from gasket paper: