Winter 2008

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Contents
Slow to Anger!...................................3
Editor’s Desk …………………...4
Justice through Anger with Love....6
What about these Scriptures?...........8
A Young Inventor……………….9
A Perspective on Anger………...10
Sustainable Living……….……..12
Oiling Vehicles with Fryer Oil…...18
What is your Vision?.......................19
His Banner Over Me is Love…….20
What did you Give Him?................20
Who are God’s People?..................21
Controlling the Fire…………........22
Psalms 7………….……………...25
Letter from Joy Martin…..……...26
Various Proverbs………...…..…..27

The VW Fox

Here are some poor pictures of my brother Nathaniel's VW Fox that he put a Lomberdini engine in. As soon as they got it running, they took off for NC and Kentucky. They are still working all the bugs out of it. They hoped to get 60-70 MPG but it don't look that way now. It should run on vegetable oil very well. I'll probably post more later.

More on the centrifuge rotor...

I didn't have any good pictures of the centrifuge rotor on this site before. I still don't have a picture of the rotor all put together when it's out of the centrifuge frame, but I'll post what I have. These pictures where all taken while I took it apart for cleaning the dirt out. My brothers had run about 700 gallons through it the day after I ran it. They didn't heat all the oil over the boiling point. When I drained it, I got 1 to 1 1/2 gallons of water out of it. I was amazed how much water was in it. I was pleased. I like how it's working.

The rotor sitting on top of the centrifuge. I took an almost 30 inch section out of a 9 inch OD oxygen tank and machined the ends square.








The top end plate. Notice the holes where the oil spins out of and the weights added to balance it. There is a nut that clamps the rotor together. There is a groove for the oxygen tank to sit into the end plates. Of course there are line up marks so it can be assembled correctly to maintain the balancing.








The rotor before it's cleaned out with the top end plate, the clamping nut, the oil catching pan, and the top bearing removed. The top bearing is held on with two bolts and the oil catching pan is just sitting in there. It only takes a few minutes to take it apart.






Looking down into the centrifuge frame with the rotor and the hopper for catching the oil removed. The center shaft is still there.








The bottom end plate with drain plugs and the center plate for a baffle and support.








The bottom end of the center shaft. Notice the collar for the bottom end plate to sit on, the bearing surface, and then the smaller part for the motor drive coupler to fasten to. You can almost see the holes where the oil comes out the the shaft and into the bottom of the rotor. Actaully this picture is a picture of my old center shaft that is slightly bent. It's only a few thousands off. Sometimes small things matter.



A picture of the whole center shaft with the top at the top of the picture. This is also a picture of the old shaft and wasn't taken the day I took the rest of the pictures.

Sometimes it gets cold around here!

Here is a picture of Luray sitting on the cookstove eating breakfast. This is not a fake picture; it's real.

Melvin, the fireman.

Last summer I joined the fire department. This winter I resigned because I didn't have enough time. Really I left before they kicked me out. It was a good experience.

More on dirt in the fuel lines...

I added a Ramco filter and an electric switching valve to my Jetta’s fuel system. When I removed the old manual switching valve, I noticed a very interesting thing. The inside of the brass fittings where the diesel and the vegetable oil came into the valve were dirty. That bacteria or corrosion or whatever it is stuff I’ve been having in my systems was there. But the fitting where the fuel came out of the valve was nice and shiny. It seems to me like the dirt got washed off because of more fuel flowing through it. Regardless of the reasons, both diesel and vegetable oil have the same problem of forming dirt. The more pipes and fittings there are after the filter, the more likely for dirt to get in the injector pump. I hope my centrifuge fixes this problem of getting dirt in the pipes. The reason I added the Ramco filter and the electric switching valve is so there is less pipe after the filter than I had before. Someday I'll have it all figured out.