From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 07:46:21 PST
Yep...with the smoke generator making smoke from peanut oil and the M35s
and such running bio-diesel from the McDonalds french fry tank. Be
rough...sittin in a foxhole hungry. Of course theres other smells that
could be added to a war scene...but there would probably be a lot of
desertions...smile!
m35products wrote:
> What a great concept!! An organic war!! The democrats will be proud of you
> for coming up with that. apbloom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Newton" <jnewton@laurel.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:54 PM
> Subject: [MV] Running an M3A4 Smoke Generator on Vegetable Oil?
>
>
>
>>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
>>
>>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).
>>
>>--
>>
>>Jim "Ike" Newton
>>
>> o 1984 M1007 CUCV Military Suburban
>> 6.2 Liter (378 CID) Turbo-Diesel Engine
>> 5/4 Ton Cargo Capacity, 4WD
>>
>> o 1971 M35A2 Military Troop/Cargo Truck "Deuce and a Half"
>> 478 CID Turbo-Diesel Multi-Fuel Engine
>> Air Shift Front Axle
>> 2 1/2 Ton Cargo Capacity, 6WD
>>
>> See These Trucks at www.CUCV.NET
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