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    Add Acetone for better diesel mileage?

    In my post I clearly did not say that Acetone (or any other octane enhancer) improved MPG -by itself-. I said that acetone IS a very high Octane hydrocarbon....which is nothing more than a plain fact of chemistry that anyone can look up for themselves in a table of characteristics of various...
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    15-kw 400 cycle diesel gen.set

    avntech, Would you have PDF manuals for a PU-667A/G Marine Corps gen-set? It's a mid-60's set made by Condec/Monarch...5kw...2-cyl Lister-Petter engine.....and in 4 yrs of looking, I've yet to find manuals for it. There were 668, 669, and 670 in the series...all used the same...
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    15-kw 400 cycle diesel gen.set

    oh sure, but do YOU want to run a 15kw Skilsaw ??? :roll: :razz: :grin:
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    Add Acetone for better diesel mileage?

    Acetone is quite high octane....from memory, somewhere in the 120 range. Any textbook on internal combustion engines or petroleum fuels will have a table of common hydrocarbons, alcohols, etc.....with pertinent characteristics of each...including octane and cetane rating. So, Acetone can...
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    15-kw 400 cycle diesel gen.set

    There is no way to convert the 400cyc alternator on there to 60 cyc output. The -frequency- is determined by the number of physical poles/slots in the stator, times the RPM. Obviously, you cannot change the way the laminations in the stator were machined/made.....i.e., stamped. A 400cyc...
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    LDT-465, likely a fresh rebuild; in Oregon

    howdy guys....haven't posted in a while...been busy cleaning up the mine...getting ready to move next year. I can't get the classifieds section to work, so I'm posting this here. Mods, feel free to move it when the class-ads are fixed. I just traded an antique Forest Service work-camp...
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