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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Bad fuel

Last night the Veggiegen started losing rpms. There was little fuel coming back on the return line, so I pulled the filter, and it was covered in rust particles. The fuel storage tank we got our fuel from yesterday has a rust problem. So I quickly made a cheap prefilter. Take a coil spring from an old vehicle, slide hose clamps over the fuel pickup line, slide a wire tie under the hose clamps and tie the line to the inside of the coil spring, slide the coil spring into a 5 micron sock filter, stick a rod through the handle, and suspend into the 55 gallon fuel drum. The coil spring keeps the sock filter from collapsing and clogging the fuel line. The rod keeps the sock filter from falling into the drum. Put a new filter cartridge in the main filter, and everything is back to normal. For more info on the VeggieGen and using vegetable oil for fuel, see "The Fry Guys".


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