On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 11:44:48 -0800 (PST)
fred wrote:

On Jan 1, 6:48*pm, Henry Fairfaxton
"Henry wrote:
The Guardian pamphlet entitled The Long Winter 1962-3 contains an image
of *fires burning alongside a *diesel engine on the railways,a practice
also used apparently with some lorries that used diesel fuel.

yeah, -20 will give problems- stick half a gallon of unleaded into a
full tank of derv to unwax it and you will be fine

But waxing is not the only problem. If the temperature of the air
inside the cylinder doesn't get high enough to ignite the fuel at the
top of the compression stroke the motor still won't go. One solution
I know is to hold a lighted newspaper in the air intake [1] as it's
cranked over. In the winter of 1970/1 on a nuclear powerstation
construction site, trying to start a big compressor on the sea-shore,
that was the job of the apprentice. Guess who.





[1] NOT with a petrol engine, PLEASE!


Mike