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ShadetreeMotorcycle

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Tarot Stirling runs on single Tea light Candle
« on: January 06, 2022, 03:33:47 pm »
We have snow here in Michigan today, I had my Tarot out as it's a reliable runner...I spotted some bee's wax tea light candles and wondered if 1 candle would power it....it does!
   It took at least 5 min for the little candle to warm up the engine to operate, I get between 200-220 RPM. I do not recommend you throw out your alcohol burner and run candle power(lots of soot) but it's nice to know if you run out of alcohol, your not dead in the water ;D

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The peppermint candy under the candle is a shim to try to get the hottest part of the flame up near the engine.