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RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity
Posted by: Walter M ()
Date: July 02, 2001 12:54PM

Dear Rainer,
I believe that 0.71 is the specific gravity of \\\"lamp oil\\\", the very best Diesel stuff available in the forties. Furnace oil is 0.82, and this is the worst thing which could be put in a Diesel engine and still have it running. Only large, slow turning units can work smootly with that. Kerosene has been invented later: it is a mixture of gasoline and lamp oil, usually referred as JP4, which feeds aviation turbines.
I think, according to the referred boat engineering data, that the latest IXs could start their patrols with 150-200 tons of fuel, i.e. 20% of the boat displacement.
Greetings and thanks for your dedicated work.
Walter M.

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Type IX Fuel Capacity Jay 06/28/2001 01:09AM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Walter M. 06/28/2001 01:34PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Rainer Bruns 06/28/2001 03:31PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Leif... 06/29/2001 09:09AM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Rainer Bruns 06/29/2001 11:35AM
Specific gravity SuperKraut 07/01/2001 07:16AM
Thanks, (nt) Leif... 07/01/2001 05:38PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Marc Cimon 07/01/2001 03:37PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Rainer Bruns 07/01/2001 07:08PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Marc Cimon 07/01/2001 10:19PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Walter M. 07/02/2001 10:15AM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Rainer Bruns 07/02/2001 11:50AM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Walter M 07/02/2001 12:54PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Marc Cimon 07/02/2001 04:49PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Marc Cimon 07/02/2001 04:49PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Rainer Bruns 07/02/2001 07:55PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Marc Cimon 07/14/2001 07:43PM
RE: Type IX Fuel Capacity Marc Cimon 07/14/2001 07:43PM


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