Re: [MV] Running an M3A4 Smoke Generator on Vegetable Oil?

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 16:01:49 PST


At 3:54 PM -0800 1/14/04, Jim Newton wrote:
>Hello List...
>
>We're going to use an M3A4 smoke generator that was generously donated
>to our group (thanks, George!) for an upcoming re-enactment event. I
>fired it up yesterday on the very first try and it made gobs of smoke,
>filling the neighborhood before I could shut it off. Here's a picture
>my wife took of my second test firing (my Suburban is completely
>obscured behind the smoke on the left side of the photo):
>
> http://216.103.65.124/archives/cimmerians/photos/smokegen_01.jpg

Heh. That must have been fun!

>I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried using vegetable oil (peanut,
>corn, canola, soy bean, etc.) for the fog oil instead of SGF2 (which
>is 10-weight light petroleum oil, mixed with kerosene to lower the
>viscosity if needed in cold weather).

Be careful with the peanut oil. It could cause
someone with a peanut allergy to drop from
anaphylactic shock.

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