Bongo Fury

Simon Jones wrote:

scanner wrote: We have a condescending Tumble Dryer...

Does it display a patronizingly superior attitude to your clothes ?

It does have a very dry sense of humour.

almost wet meself with that one guys, superb, incidentally looked in tesco tonight, there were selling de ionised water they called it, for irons etc reduced to 50p a litre, dont need it down here but might be worth looking at in other areas. ..condecending tumble drier..priceless.

David Edwards wrote:almost wet meself with that one guys, superb, incidentally looked in tesco tonight, there were selling de ionised water they called it, for irons etc reduced to 50p a litre, dont need it down here but might be worth looking at in other areas. ..condecending tumble drier..priceless.

Local paper did a special supplement once on

"How to insult your loft"

just goes to show that relying on a spill chucker is no substitute for proper proof reading.

Simon Jones wrote:

scanner wrote: We have a condescending Tumble Dryer...

Does it display a patronizingly superior attitude to your clothes ?

HAHAHA
LMAO
Very good well spotted

I have just tested the water from a Britta water filter (from a hard water supply). Bad news - It's still very hard.


Sorry if I sound condensing, I don't mean to be


Also, I can insult my loft just by leaving my house under it

I have a cheap dehumidifier running 24/7 in a concrete air raid shelter to keep my tools from rusting. Every week it pulls about a litre of water out of the air. I kept it just for the steam iron but now know how to get rid of the excess should I ever need to change the coolant. Thanks.
BTW, I would not use descaling chemicals in the Bongo Diesel engine, if only because the process would produce carbon dioxide gas in sufficient quantities to create the air lock the tricky air purging process is designed to deal with. If that is something you feel confident about, fine, but personally I would revert to the old maxim, "if it aint broke, don't fix it".
Cheers,
Tim

timhum wrote:BTW, I would not use descaling chemicals in the Bongo Diesel engine, if only because the process would produce carbon dioxide gas in sufficient quantities to create the air lock the tricky air purging process is designed to deal with. If that is something you feel confident about, fine, but personally I would revert to the old maxim, "if it aint broke, don't fix it".
Cheers,
Tim

In interesting one that Tim. I'd thought about that but I reckoned all the little bubbles would simply move round the system until they settled out in the spaces at the top of the system - mainly the header tank. Pressure in the system would increase as gas was generated but this would blow off with the pressure caps. Don't know if that logic was sound

The other concern was whether the chemical would go on to erode the aluminium, maybe the hoses etc. But I reckoned this was unlikely to be significant.

Really though, we'd need to know if this technique has ever been developed for cleaning car coolant systems, and what findings there were in terms of pros and cons. Might do a bit of web searching if I find time and energy.

The Bongo's CO2 emissions are already high enough without the cooling system joining in as well.

mike is it possible for pressure caps to blow off ?,i lost header tank cap recently and put it down to bongomaan negligence but could it have blown ? (no overheating ) but i may have overfilled it...

bongomaan wrote:mike is it possible for pressure caps to blow off ?,i lost header tank cap recently and put it down to bongomaan negligence but could it have blown ? (no overheating ) but i may have overfilled it...

I'm not an expert but I wouldn't have thought so unless there was a sudden and massive event, or maybe solid liquid pushing it off

Bloke who services my Bongo insists on using distilled water for the coolant change to help avoid corrosion problems. He has a microlight and services other aircraft. They strip down the engines regularly and he should know a thing or two about how to look after 'em.

mikeonb4c wrote:

bongomaan wrote:mike is it possible for pressure caps to blow off ?,i lost header tank cap recently and put it down to bongomaan negligence but could it have blown ? (no overheating ) but i may have overfilled it...

I'm not an expert but I wouldn't have thought so unless there was a sudden and massive event, or maybe solid liquid pushing it off

It could only push off if it wasn't screwed down properly.

If it was on properly I think the reservoir would burst or a hose would pop first.

I have a marine fish tank and have to buy (reverse osmosis water) think that's how you spell it, you can buy this water with or without the salt for about £3 for 25 litres, the water is filtered and filtered and filtered, they only end up with a third of the the amount of water they start with. will have to check on the hardness, but otherwise its very pure. might be a possible cheap source of good water for flushing the rad or just as a top up for the coolant if non available.

I was wondering if that would be any good Dave, I think my mates fella has a reverse osmosis filter set up

What about rainwater, is this soft?????