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Date:         Fri, 31 Dec 1999 07:27:18 -0800
Reply-To:     Doktor Tim <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM>
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From:         Doktor Tim <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM>
Subject:      Re: Hot water without electical drain
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At 08:40 AM 12/31/1999 EST, you wrote: I suggested >that he heat the water by running a type K flexible copper tubing around the >around the exhaust manifold and muffler, have a high and low inlet on the >water tank and let the water heat by convection. Free heat from the muffler >no drain on the electrical system.

Yes, Yes, and if you wrapped it all with header insulating cloth, you would increase heat transfer to the water and raise exhaust gas temp for a bit more exhaust velocity ie: better combustion chamber fill and flow. Absolute reclaim of otherwise wasted energy. Set up the hot water storage tank with hi-tech insulation and provision for heat maintenance by a votive candle underneath. A five gallon tank raised to 160f degrees could be held overnight by a wax flame to a nice warm shower in the morning.

Any home brewers supply will have copper coils with hose fittings designed for cooling the wert quickly before adding the yeast. They are design to be used with common plastic buckets. These could be hooked into the WasserBoxer coolant system to circulate hot coolant through the tubes suspended in the bucket of water. If you put a tee in the system hose running from the motor to the radiator and one further up stream in the same line with a smaller hose, you would get a differential pressure flow and no pump would be required. Slice into the rear seat heater?? Could be easy squeezy.

Need to pull a 10 mile hot summer mountain pass with a full load?? Stop at the bottom of the grade. Fill the water tank with ice cold glacier water. Be extra cool.

T.P. Stephens aka Doktor Tim Surveyor, Mechanic, Poet, Philosopher San Juan Island, WA


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