Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>  MH>> Flatbed as in the rolling carts.  I used the generator during
 RW>  MH>> Hurricane Sandy - as we did lose power here for 2 days.
 RW>>
 RW>> I figured that you probably had.

 MH> I was thinking our power was going to be off for the entire week and
 MH> was surprised when it was restored the second day.  Just about our
 MH> entire county was in the dark.  It was very strange driving around at
 MH> 10pm looking for more gas - and everything was dark.  No street
 MH> lights, no red lights, no store lights, no nothing.  I had to drive
 MH> 15 minutes to find an area with power.

8^) Go west, young man!

 RW>> That's not a problem, if you know what I know. 8^) I used to drive
 RW>> my 1940 Ford to a closed gas station back when I couldn't afford to
 RW>> buy gas. I'd park the car over the tank fill holes and open up the
 RW>> floor that I had cut out in the back seat area. Under the seat was
 RW>> an electric fuel pump with 20 feet of hose attached to the inlet
 RW>> side. Drop the hose into their tank and turn on the pump. Meanwhile,
 RW>> I'd have coffee at the restaurant across the street. Come back 10min
 RW>> later to a full tank of gas.
 RW>>
 RW>> If I were writing a TV series like the Walking Dead, I'd write that
 RW>> into the series. Although that might give some people ideas...

 MH> That is a really good idea.

It is, if you're planning to be around during a Zombie day.

 MH> There was a guy here in MD that was doing that for years and
 MH> eventually got busted.  The only difference was he used a large
 MH> enclosed work style truck that had large tanks inside of the back.

Yeah, that will get somebody's attention right away. They won't miss a few
gallons at a time, but they'll certainly miss huge quantities at a time.

I forget the amount of worth a theft has to be to meet felony charges of
grand theft, but he probably met that within days, if not hours.

 MH> He was doing the same thing.  No one questioned him - they thought he
 MH> was working on the tanks and would go in, get coffee, etc.  I give
 MH> that an A for creativity.

He sure had guts to do that during business hours.

 RW>> 7200 watts. I like that power cord idea...fast and effective.

 MH> The generator is rated for 5500 watts, with a 6500 watt surge.  I
 MH> really think it can do at least 1000 watts more than it is rated.

Ummmm, I wouldn't count on it. The engine that drives the generator would
soon overheat, unless it's water cooled. You might be able to get away
with using a fan to keep the air moving, but that wouldn't guarantee
anything.

 MH> I had it running under our deck.  It was raining so hard, and
 MH> sideways, I was still getting wet when it was time to put more gas in
 MH> it.  It has a 5 1/2 gallon tank, which is nice.

What was the outside temp?

 MH> Worse comes to worst, I would have taken gas from one of the several
 MH> vehicles we have to fill it.  The Durango has near 20 gallons by
 MH> itself.

It'll run ok on 'up to 10%' alcohol?

 RW>> Wow...that's quite a load.

 MH> Besides the noise, the only way you could tell we were running on
 MH> generator was the microwave sounded a bit lower when running - but it
 MH> still worked. I didn't expect to have everything running on it, but
 MH> it worked out great.

LOL! There's 1100 watts right there. My 1100w microwave and the 1500w
quartz heater on the same circuit blow the 15 amp breaker when they run
together - if I forget to turn off the heater before using the microwave.

 MH> It was cold outside in that storm, too.  Having my gas furnace still
 MH> work (blower was being powered by the backfeed) was very nice!

That wouldn't cut it here. Our furnace/AC is electric.


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