K. Thanks all. Michael in San Antonio 91GL AT 'Gringo' 73 Beetle
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:37 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 08:16 PM 10/26/2009, Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> My experience with charcoal is with fish tanks and BBQs. >> > > Fish tanks same stuff, except it's used once and tossed in a much less > controlled environment. BBQ, ordinary (non-activated) charcoal, with or > without binders and heaven-knows-what that seems to amount to about a third > of a bricquet. Actual pure charcoal burns to a light feathery ash with very > little volume. > > > So this lasts indef as long as no cracks or leaks? Thanks again for the >> insight. >> > > I guess I'd say it lasts indefinitely until it stops working whether for > obvious or magical reason (i.e. the charcoal gets gucked up with something > other than gasoline vapor). I believe the magical failures are very rare > but don't know for sure. And I don't know any reasonable method to test one > for function in the back yard. So, physical integrity and proper > connections are both the best you can do and pretty reasonable as well. > > Yrs, > D > > > |
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