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Skriven 2007-02-23 20:40:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BURTON FORD
Ärende: HEAT!   70220
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 -=> Quoting Burton Ford to Dave Sacerdote <=-

 GJ> -42 C.

 sas-> Try breaking the frozen propane up into smaller chunks to
 sas-> increase the surface area.  It will give you a hotter flame.
 
 BF> And if you pre-warm the larger frozen chunks with a candle be sure you
 BF> use a very small candle.

[snork]

True story. My first home here had a propane furnace and the tank had no
heater or electric blanket as I didn't know I would need one. Sure enough
the propane gelled one cold day. I came home to a house that was near
freezing and checked the furnace.  Liquid propane was coming through the
line, slowly and sporadically, in thick glugs. Just as the flame was
ready to die, there would be a spurt of liquid which would flare
up in a large flame and then die off again. One of my roommates was a
farm boy from the Prairies (where it gets colder than where I grew up)
and knew what to do. We filled a large garbage pail with hot water (we
had an electric hot water tank so it was at full temp) and poured it
over the tank. That warmed it up immediately and the flame returned to
normal. The cold tank made a lot of loud snapping and crackling noises
when the 140 F water hit the -40 metal! Then instead of buying an
expensive approved blanket or heater, he rigged up a rubber handled
"trouble light" from an auto supply store in a shoe box to keep it off
the ground an inch or so and stuck it under the tank. Then he banked up
the snow so that the tank was half buried and the light bulb was sitting
in a small air cavity. That 60 watts plus the insulation of the snow was
all I needed to keep the tank warm enough not to gel.

Getting back to your advise, he told me that back on the farm his Dad
would pour used motor oil on a bale of straw placed about 10 feet from
a frozen tank and set it on fire! I guess they had a good line with
absolutely no leaks at the couplings or the pressure diaphragm. Sounds
pretty risky regardless. Oh yeah, his Dad would always back off 100 feet
or so just in case.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Asian Noodle Salad with Chiles and Peanuts
 Categories: Asian, Salads, Nuts, Noodles, Chilies
      Yield: 6 Servings

      1 lb dried soba noodles or
    spaghetti
    1/4 c  Asian sesame oil
    1/4 c  soy sauce
      2 TB sugar
  1 1/2 TB balsamic vinegar or red wine
    vinegar
      1 c  cilantro; chopped
      8    green onions; thinly
    sliced
      3    jalapeno peppers; seeded
    and chopped
  1 1/2 c  dry roasted peanuts, lightly
    salted; chopped coarsely

  Cook noodles or spaghetti until just tender. Drain. Rinse with cold
  water until cool. Drain well.  Transfer to large bowl.  Combine
  sesame oil, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar and salt in small bowl.  Stir
  to dissolve sugar. Add to noodles.  Add chopped cilantro, chiles,
  and onions. Mix well. Sprinkle peanuts over individual salads.

  recipe by: Bon Apetit Magazine

  From: Judy Howle

MMMMM

Cheers

Jim, in Yellowknife




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