[SEL] RE: Castings/now hot bulb engines

[Arnie Fero]

G'day Russell,

With hot tube oil field engines (two stroke), they can run for several
minutes quite happily after the hot tube burner goes out.  In terms of a
"quick" shutoff, you'd do better to quench the tube with a cold beer.
8-))

Or just turn the gas off, or ...

See ya,  Arnie

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Russell Gilbert wrote:

> Sorry for the late reply,  I'm not as yet familair with how a hot tube
> engine works but .... don't they require a constant lamp to run??? I guess
> one would just remove the lamp? Blackstone and Austral oil engines can
> maintain the hot box/vapouriser temp when running.