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On 13/01/2015 18:59, Uncle Peter wrote:
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On 11/01/2015 21:21, Unbeliever wrote:
Uncle Peter wrote:
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:29:09 +0000, Mick wrote:

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news Anyone turn the pilot light of their boiler or
gas
fire
off in
summer?

Never had a pilot light!

I'd be interested to know what proportion of new
boilers
have
them...

I've never had a new boiler. I take it they
start
with
an
electric spark like modern cookers? I've never
known
a
cooker
sparker to wear out, so I guess the boilers don't
either?

Well you are not that knowledgeable are you
really?
Petrol
cars
have "sparkers" AKA spark plugs, and if you drive,
then
you
know
that they wear out quite regularly - so why
wouldn't
those
used on
boilers and cookers be any different?

You are a little tinker aren't you with your
teasing
little
idiocies? It's great to see that you really enjoy
being
laughed
at or
the
butt of many jokes and obscenities.

I'm currently laughing at you, as you don't seem to
realise
that a
car spark plug operates 1000s of times a minute.
Your
boiler
doesn't start that many times in a day.

You have yet to realise that the principle is the
same
and
erosion
occurs at the tips of both.

My boiler fires up quite often during the day and
the
boiler
igniter
has been replaced on several occasions due spark
erosion
at
the
tip.

Never mind, you'll still be laughed at and be the
butt
of
jokes
and
abuse simply because of your idiocies while you
still
continue
to
post as you do.

"Quit often" is probably say thirty times a day. If
you
drive
your
car for half an hour each day, that's 45000 sparks
from
each
plug
a
day. So your boiler spark plug should last 1500
times
longer
than
your car spark plug.

I doubt it old son - I drive a diesel and to the best
of
my
knowledge,
the
don't have spark plugs. They do have four glow plugs
though,
and
while
you're spouting inane statistics, I wonder if you
could
tell
me
how
many
times they fire per cycle of a four stroke engine, per
cylinder?

Glow plugs only operate when the ignition is first
switched
on
to
heat up
the cylinder, they don't 'fire' after that. In fact
they
don't
fire at
all, just heat up and 'glow' for a short time.

Glow plugs vapourise the fuel in the inlet manifold to
make
starting
easier
when cold.

Nonsense.

I believe you are correct. I thought they warmed the
diesel
to
make
it
thinner, so the INJECTORS could vapourise it.

No, the glow plugs do their work AFTER the fuel has been
vapourised
and
injected into the combusion chamber.

I see, so there's nothing in the average car diesel engine
to
combat
very cold ambient temperatures. You'd think they could have
a
diesel
pipe heater.



I do believe that some people fit a kind of heater in diesel
fuel
tanks
and lines, although I think that has something to with when
they
use
vegetable oil instead of diesel - which many do.

Probably like using LPG, it ****s the engine.

It doesn't actually.

I've heard you have to use diesel every 4th fill.

That is wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetab..._and_usability

That rings warning bells.

Only if you don't have a clue about the basics.

There are a lot of things to adjust and cater for in that link.

Doesn't make for warning bells.

Yes it does. If one of those is done incorrectly, irrepairable
damage
may
occur.

Just as true of any engine design.

Best to stick to what the engineers designed the engine to run on.

No reason why the engine can't be designed to run on both.

In fact plenty of engines are designed run on a much bigger
range of fuels like the range of ethanol mixes seen world wide.

Plenty of gas turbine engines can run on almost anything liquid
that will burn.

But the standard car diesel engine isn't.

Plenty are designed to use vegetable oil now.

I've never heard of such a thing.

Then you need to get your ears tested, BAD.

Quote 3 examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetab..._and_usability

I see no models of cars designed to run on vegetable oil.

Then you need new glasses, BAD.