THE FLATLEY DRYER

[Big Kev]

I followed it Kev and it's a good example of what I was saying. All those added complications for some tiny improvement in performance or possibly to help meet some emissions target.

It's emissions...

[Stanley]

I thought that might be it. Thanks Kev.

[Big Kev]

A simple schematic (the easy bit)

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What it doesn't show is the array of sensors that can shut the engine down at the drop of a hat.

[plaques]

Today's diesels have another complication. Toyota and possibly many others require an additional squirt of additive. (AdBlue a trade name) which is basically uric acid, I'm not taking the p... to keep emissions down. Big warning lights come on when it is running down. What else it does I don't know.
Talking of Turbocharges, my pals BMW turbo went big style. £10,000 + . He scrapped the car. It was 6 year old when he got it and only had it for one year.

[Big Kev]

Today's diesels have another complication. Toyota and possibly many others require an additional squirt of additive. (AdBlue a trade name) which is basically uric acid, I'm not taking the p... to keep emissions down. Big warning lights come on when it is running down. What else it does I don't know.

My son's Volvo uses Adblue, as you say, it's all part of the emissions process

AdBlue is the trade name for a type of diesel exhaust fluid. It's a mixture of urea and deionised water that’s stored in a separate tank from the car’s fuel.

When the car’s engine is running, tiny amounts of AdBlue are squirted onto the exhaust gas produced, turning the NOx into nitrogen and water.

[PanBiker]

I no longer have any involvement with diesels, had two in the past and both were OK on that front. What I do know is my current Hyundai i30 with it's 1.6 petrol engine and associated bits tested with almost zero emissions at it's recent MOT.

[Tizer]

We all know how much soot (carbon particulates) diesel engines can emit and they are run with an excess of oxygen (air) to fuel ratio to avoid partial combustion as much as possible. Unfortunately the excess oxygen reacts with nitrogen in the air and you end up with a lot of nitrogen oxide gases being emitted. So you avoid one form of pollution and create another one!

[chinatyke]

We all know how much soot (carbon particulates) diesel engines can emit and they are run with an excess of oxygen (air) to fuel ratio to avoid partial combustion as much as possible. Unfortunately the excess oxygen reacts with nitrogen in the air and you end up with a lot of nitrogen oxide gases being emitted. So you avoid one form of pollution and create another one!

Nowadays, diesels have urea injection to eliminate NOx. Don't they have that in UK/EU too? I would thought it would be mandatory to reduce emissions.

[Stanley]

I'm glad I don't have to bother!

[Big Kev]

Nowadays, diesels have urea injection to eliminate NOx. Don't they have that in UK/EU too? I would thought it would be mandatory to reduce emissions.

I know mine doesn't but it is 8 years old...

[Stanley]

Does anyone remember Redex? Still available. (LINK)

[plaques]

Used it on one of my old diesels to clean up the drop in emissions. Diesels don't like continuous short running. it worked like it said on the tin.

[Big Kev]

I used Wynns Turbo Cleaner, and a tank of premium diesel, in mine. I would imagine it does the same job as Redex. I remember it used to be offered as a 'shot' when garages were still attended.

[Stanley]

"Diesels don't like continuous short running. it worked like it said on the tin."
Dead right Ken. I once used Ursula Drinkall's diesel Mini to go and rescue a wagon. When I returned it to her she thanked me for tuning it up, she said it was a different car. I hadn't the heart to tell her all I had done was clog it for 200 miles on the motorway and cleaned its tubes out.

[Stanley]

I suppose this really comes under Dialect or forgotten corners but we used to use a phrase that referred back to draught animals, anything working hard, particularly an engine, was said to be 'into the collar'. Old petrol engines always worked better when in mist or heavy fog. I think it was due to a higher water level in the air being sucked in.

[Stanley]

Dogs are on my mind this morning and I remember that the go-to tonic and cure all for dogs, very popular with the greyhound training fraternity, was a bottle of red liquid called Lintox.



It was very popular but I can find no mention of the original Lintox on the web.
Has anyone else come across it?

[Stanley]

An associated subject with Lintox is obsolete cattle medicine.



Made by Day and Sons at Crewe 'Red Drink' was a form favourite of dairy farmers. I first came across it when I had a dose of flu when I worked for Lionel Gleed in Warwickshire. I was dosed with Red Drink in hot milk and after a violent sweat I made a recovery. I found out years later that one of the main ingredients (Common with many patent remedies) was Strychnine! No wonder my heart was racing. However I recovered and so who knows, it may have been an effective treatment.
Today science has taken over and all almost these old remedies have vanished.
A thought, does anyone remember Karswood's Poultry Spice? You sprinkled it on hen grub and they loved it. I once heard it was made mainly from crushed insects.

[Wendyf]

You can still buy Poultry Spice, I've never used it but it's mainly calcium plus a few spices that can be found in the kitchen cupboard. I used to bake all our egg shells in a tin on the oven top then crush them and mix them in with the feed.

[Tizer]

Found nothing about Lintox but did find this old article on development of a cure for canine distemper... LINK

[Stanley]

Wendy, when I was driving for Richard Drinkall we had a wonderful customer at Blackburn, Fernhurst Farm. 'Hargy' Hargreaves was a small white haired man who had a genius for bringing beasts back after serious illness. If we had such an animal we'd take it to him and he would work his magic and when he had them back on the road would call Richard and I'd pick it up. Richard gave him the difference between what it was worth when I delivered it and when it came back. I asked him what the secret was and he said it was simple, just get them eating again. To this end he used every different form of feed you can imagine but his ultimate secret weapon was Karswood Poultry Spice and warm linseed mash.
I once brought a dog back from Distemper after the vet had given up. I used Fleming's Fever Cure which was widely believed in then. It was a widely used medicine for babies. Anyone heard of it?

[PanBiker]

Fennings was it not Stanley and yes, always given when you were running a bit warm and poorly when I was a little lad.

Accrington Web -- Fennings

[Tripps]

Was that Fennings Little Healers

File under 'thing you forgot you had forgotten' - and lots of other interesting things too.

[PanBiker]

Yes those as well, I think it came as a suspension, powder and a pill. Any method to get it down, quinine based I think.

[Stanley]

Yes! Thanks Ian, my memory was at fault. You're right, it came as a liquid, Little Healers and powders. My mother favoured the bottle mainly but over the years I was dosed with all of them. It was the bottle I used on the dog with Distemper, it survived, whether the Fenning's helped or not I can't say but it was a good result.
As soon as I think of Little Healers my mind goes to Beecham's Pills. They came in a little paper screw as well and I think my mother believed she would die if she didn't take one every night. She was not alone.
Then there were 'Pink pills for pale and poorly people'. I always thought they were Parkinson's but looking on the web all I can find are Dr William's pills.

[Stanley]

Yesterday's mention of Fenning's started me off on a search for cooling powders and I found THIS. Funny thing is that he talks about them having been in use for over 100 years and containing paracetamol. I didn't know that medication had been around for so long. So I had another furtle and found THIS, according to Wiki it was first used in 1877 which surprised me.