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"Barnyard BOb --" wrote in message
... Sales tax on your battery could just about pay for half of mine. My 0-320 has been cranking reliably with an $18 Wal-Mart garden tractor battery... down to 20 degrees in western Missouri. Hope I'm NOT damned. You weren't... until you posted. Now you've gotten Fate's attention... and she's a spiteful bitch! Eric |
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Sales tax on your battery could just about pay for half of mine. My 0-320 has been cranking reliably with an $18 Wal-Mart garden tractor battery... down to 20 degrees in western Missouri. Hope I'm NOT damned. You weren't... until you posted. Now you've gotten Fate's attention... and she's a spiteful bitch! Eric ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Can't I be damned by a God that doesn't exist? Barnyard BOb -- |
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"Barnyard BOb --" wrote
You weren't... until you posted. Now you've gotten Fate's attention... and she's a spiteful bitch! Eric ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Can't I be damned by a God that doesn't exist? Barnyard BOb -- Who's to say you're not? So many ways to be the universe's punchline. Fortunately, there's no need to decide which to go with, choose 'em all! :-) Eric "speaking from experience" |
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Barnyard BOb -- wrote:
In SOME, but not all engines... The hot spark causes the cold moist air WITHOUT FUEL in the cylinder to CONDENSE across the electrodes as ice... if it's 32 or colder. Why? How? Bill Decades ago, when I first grabbed an ice cold mug out of the refrigerator for a brewski....a coat of ice formed almost instantly. Ambient heat and humidity at work on the frozen mug, right? Since then, I have repeated the experiment many times. Might work with Chardonnay, too. Check it out. g Apparently, the same phenomena occurs inside some engines when the heat of an intense spark meets the freezing cold spark plug and moisture rich air in the cylinder. Make sense? If so, hoist one fer me. If not.... hoist one fer me. Unka' BOb -- Bob, your theory is all wet (frosted?). It isn't the spark + moist air that causes a frosted plug. Rather, it is simply the water vapor in the cylinder condensing on the subfreezing plug -- the spark plays no direct role in the process. The water vapor in the cylinder can come from air being pumped through the cylinder before the engine fires (see 1) or, more commonly, from the combination of ambient water vapor and water vapor liberated through combustion in a failed start (see 2). Although the spark does play a role in the latter case, it is a decidedly indirect one. As for your frosty mug, when frost forms on a subfreezing mug it is because the dew point of the ambient air is above the temperature of the mug. When the ambient air meets the mug, the air is cooled below its dew point and water vapor condenses out and freezes on the mug. The only role your "ambient heat" plays in the process is enabling an ambient dew point that is higher than the temperature of the mug. Of course, the dew point of the ambient air does not necessarily have to be higher than the temperature of the subfreezing mug, but often is. David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com 1: For this case, the dew point of the air must be above the temperature of the subfreezing plug for frost to form. 2: There is a lot of H2O liberated in the combustion of avgas, chiefly through the reaction 2 C8H18 + 25 02 = 16 CO2 + 18 H2O. |
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Bob, your theory is all wet (frosted?). It isn't the spark + moist air that causes a frosted plug. Rather, it is simply the water vapor in the cylinder condensing on the subfreezing plug -- the spark plays no direct role in the process. Not true of my experiences. Ice MASSIVESLY collects BETWEEN the electrodes... *NOT* EVENLY distributed over the general surfaces of the 8 or 16 spark plugs. Have you ever observed what I'm referring to? Bear in mind, this phenomena does not occur until SPARK is introduced to the environment. The water vapor in the cylinder can come from air being pumped through the cylinder before the engine fires (see 1) or, more commonly, from the combination of ambient water vapor and water vapor liberated through combustion in a failed start (see 2). Although the spark does play a role in the latter case, it is a decidedly indirect one. David O -- Are you saying the failed start causes the ice, not the other way around? Hmmmm. If so, most interesting...... Even though my experience has demonstrated otherwise, time and time again. Barnyard BOb-- |
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I'm saying that most failed engine starts from iced-over plugs occur after a few combustion cycles due to the water vapor liberated through combustion being combined with an already high ambient relative humidity. I'm saying that the spark plays no role in concentrating the ice between the plug's electrodes. To be convinced of such a spark induced ice concentrating phenomena, I would have to see either an authoritative paper detailing the physical mechanism involved or a controlled experiment with such results. You may be correct, Bob, but the scientist and engineer in me needs more before I buy it. If I'm proved wrong, I'll hoist a frosted mug to you. David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Which came first... the chicken or the egg? Matters not when you and your spark plugs are frostbit on some lonely mountain top and your engine won't start.... and your battery is running down. Better have a plug wrench or know how to prevent spark plug frosting in the first place. Scientific explanations be damned. Barnyard BOb -- |
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