Graydon you just made my day go bad, lol

Yea its around the corner.
We have a few samples of B100 Cold flow improvers/antigels.
We'll keep updating as we find some good info.

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I had snow falling today at my place....looks like it's time for this again...

The truck DID start though, but it took a little longer. Our temps really dropped this week.

Man I hate winter!
-Graydon

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I had snow falling today at my place....looks like it's time for this again...

Ah man, it's wayyyy too early for THAT ! My heated B100 tank is well on it's way to being done though and when it is finished and installed I will be posting pics of the operation on my website. I am trying to be diligent in picture taking so that I can give a good pictorial how-to along with it.

Today was T-shirt and vest time here with sunshine.(yeah, I know, what's "sunshine" ?)

Winter - best appreciated on TV, like snow.

It appears you're wishing for some sort of high tech additive [made from petroleum] which might lower the gel pt. temp. by a few degrees, instead of just cutting the BD with kero and/or stale gasoline to achieve a significant gel pt. temp. reduction. Besides, the chemicals used to make BD come from petroleum. You can't avoid using petroleum products, so I don't see the point of this 'miracle additive' exercise.

..or just heat the fuel system like LE suggests.

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Originally posted by Legal Eagle:

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I had snow falling today at my place....looks like it's time for this again...

Ah man, it's wayyyy too early for THAT ! My heated B100 tank is well on it's way to being done though and when it is finished and installed I will be posting pics of the operation on my website. I am trying to be diligent in picture taking so that I can give a good pictorial how-to along with it.

Today was T-shirt and vest time here with sunshine.(yeah, I know, what's "sunshine" ?)

Winter - best appreciated on TV, like snow.

The sun came out & melted all the snow the next day, but for a day there it gave us all here in Northern Utah a glimpse of what's coming...
http://vimeo.com/1950109

Thanks,
Graydon

Got lotsa flakes on Tuesday, but it didn't stick. Temps are dropping though; below freezing the last couple nights. Tomorow I try to finish my heated fuel delivery system.

We're supposed to get icy rain and then 10" of snow on top of it tonight...pretty good chance of Ryan not going to work tomorrow.

Plus I spent all day yesterday trying to get my new-to-me, previous abandoned in a barn, snow blower tractor assembled, repaired, and running. Got the assembly done, and the running part, but the repaired is a littler lacking...one of the 4 tires is still on it and holding air...another was flat when I got it, I blew up another one putting air it in (THAT was exciting!), and I broke the valve stem off another.

Just gotta mount the now-repaired tires back up, figure out why the engine is lacking in grunt, and I'll be throwing some snow!

We had a bit of a powering, but nothing of substance. We did however get a sudden and dramatic drop in tempearture. Woke up to -20C (4 below F)this morning.
So, I took the Benz out for a ride.Left it on the main tank until the heat came up in the aux tank and then swapped it over. The windchill was -29C (20below F) so I couldn't stay at highway speeds for very long but stayed on the secondary tributaries and the temps on the primary filter stayed above freezing in spite of a head wind. All in all I do believe this winter I will be running more B100 than ever before :-).
Supposed to be milder the next few days though.

The commercial fuel line heaters I've seen are very expensive so I'm thinking of trying a homemade alternative:

Buy a cheap plumbing pipe heater from the hardware store and zip tie it to the fuel line from back to front all the way to the filter. These do not get hot but are designed to keep the pipes that run under your house just above freezing. They draw very little power and most have an automatic switch that turns them on when the temperature gets near freezing. Although they are 110 I am thinking it could easily be tie into my engine block heater which we do use from time to time during the coldest days. (The upper teens at coldest - usually just the low 30s) It may also be able to run off a 110 inverter or perhaps even 12 VDC.
Also, as a fun project, I've made heated clothing before that ran for hours off of a few D cell batteries and found that it really isn't difficult to make flexible heated elements. (which is why I have trouble swallowing the cost of pre-made heated fuel lines)


- Chris