Tuesday, 28 July 2009

She canae take anymore Cap'n!

The Fishing trip was hopeless, the wind blew like it was the end of the world, and our Fishing Kayak stayed strapped to the roofrack, with only the rain wetting it. In addition we caught absolutely nothing, lost loads of kit, and ended up in Poole A&E after John got a spinner stuck in his thumb.

Having got the fishing out of the way the next mission is preparing for a trip to London to try and complete my work on the Biotruck, it looks likely that I will only have Saturday daytime so I need to get everything installed right first time, hopefully there will be no leaks when the system is filled up! I've been frantically scribbling diagrams of the Oil Settling System, Centrifuge, and Reactor to try and make sense of what i need to take, but theres just too many things to juggle so im not getting anything done properly. I have decided to install a 12vDC Air Pump on the Centrifuge to try and eliminate drag caused by rising oil levels, this will be a problem otherwise as the Centrifuge cannot be mounted high enough above the oil tank to drain freely allowing air into the cap. The other aspects of the system seem to be relatively straight forward, i just need to get stuck in and work it out as i go along.

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