TWL: Infrared Thermometer Recommendations
*** I agree but don't think I can take as illustrative of a
picture of / through a can as might be possible with a glass jar.
Agreed, but how bout putting a small piece of mild steel or cast iron into
the jar?
### would be easy -- don't understand the point of doing so
however -
- In order to accelerate the process consider enriching the water
*** Had not thought of that one at all - wonder how it would
affect results -
I didn't come up with this myself. The idea came from the magnet
experiment
that I hope to report on in the next week or so. Of course, they used lab
chemicals (potassium nitrate and disodium orthophosphate) but I think
water
soluble fertilizer ought to be "close enough for jazz".
#### OK how much do you suggest ?? and place it in for the
month before adding the Soltron ??
- Use a lot less Soltron! If one quart will treat 1000 gallons then 4
to
6
drops ought to treat one quart of fuel.
*** OK will do 5 drops !
It would be a good idea to double check my math on this. What I did was
pretty approximate: 1 liter will treat 4000 liters so 1/4000 liter will
treat 1 liter so 1/4ml = 1/4000 liter and 20 drops = 1ml therefore 20/4 =
5
drops which should treat 1 liter. As you can see there's plenty of room
for
error here ( but I think I'm in the ballpark).
you see it give a "swirl" so that things will have some mixing
**** Not possible - if left to sit while we are away
This could create a problem. The magnet experiment didn't show any results
until they started agitating the contaminated fuel. OTOH: Your experiment
is
significantly different from theirs so maybe it isn't important.
##### Maybe will give the whole lot to Mell Knott to swirl
away while we are .
**** Will gladly send all apparatus and samples to you - for
test
of your Mrs.Hudson - Mine would simply remove the entirity to the
bin -possibly yours is more Victorian ..
I'm afraid that my Mrs. Hudson is as thoroughly modern as your own. Any
Victorianism is limited to enjoying the architecture of the period.
##### There it rests then ....
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***** Aye - There's the rub -- I added some MPW in Sept / Oct to
prepare for winter storage at last fillup -- don't know what can be done
about it - any ideas
One answer would be to substitute new fuel, perhaps from a fuel dock of
ill
repute (if such a thing is convenient) and to obtain water from a "nasty"
area in your marina since such water probably has oil eating bugs living
in
it.
###### hummm - Maybe if expr with fuel from tank is a
flop - will then attempt
same procedure with pump fuel - as you suggest.
Just want to try tank
fuel first .
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I will be in NY for the Annual Dinner of the Baker Street
Irregulars
I'm afraid that I don't share the profundity of knowledge that you
obviously
have for this subject. For example, my understanding of "The Sign of Four"
is limited such that I cannot infer whether your own grounding was
intentional or not or if you were trying to avoid a greater danger in the
way that Jonathan Small sought to avoid Holmes and Watson. In fact,
unlikely
though they may be in today's workaday world, I cannot even rule out
absolutely the involvement of poison darts or chests of treasure.
Or maybe it was sinking up to my arse in the muck jumping
overboard after a soft grounding -in an attempt to push off !!!
All the Best
Ken