On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:00:02 -0400, JW wrote:
On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 20:11:50 -0700 Jeff Liebermann
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On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 19:30:50 -0700, DaveC wrote:
what do you use for fuel in your smoker?
Box cardboard, paper egg crates, wood chips, charcoal dust, pellet
stove fuel, dried lawn clippings, or anything that will burn
inefficiently and smoulder. Adding a sprinkle of water produced more
smoke, but the flames went out too quickly. Read about what goes into
a bee keepers smoker for clues:
http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/smofuel.html
How about using incense?
I haven't tried incense but I suspect it will not produce enough
visible smoke.
Also, since the machine under test is usually borrowed, methinks the
owner might not appreciate having his machine internally coated with a
layer of smelly oil. I had that problem when I used some of the pine
kindling I save for starting my wood burning stove. The sap
(creosote) was carried along with the smoke and made the case reek
like a pine tree. Fortunately, most of it condensed near the air
intake, so all I had to do was solvent wash the grill work and Dell's
one big case fan. What you want is a finely divided ash, not a smelly
or oily glue.
Sigh. I guess they don't teach combustion, bomb making, and arson in
the skools any more. We had "burn baby burn" while I was in college,
but I guess later generations were too busy burning incense, getting
stoned, and fighting smog to bother learning about rapid oxidation.
Very sad and depressing commentary on the deteriorating quality of
education methinks.
Hints: Don't get the mix too hot, humidity has a big effect, figure
out which way the wind is blowing first, and don't inhale the smoke.
Too much oxidizer will cause the steel case to rust or the mix to act
like flash powder. Try not to Learn by Destroying your computah.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/a/coloredsmoke.htm
http://xtrem-experiments.com/pyro-compositions/colored-smoke.html
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