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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Paul<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>>“Biggest problem I see with many attempts to make TLUD-style barrel-size charcoal makers is the poor quality of the lid or top to allow in secondary air that goes to the concentrator hole.”<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I thought Alex English had a good solution worked out for that long ago. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Alex, can you please post a picture of your maize kernel TLUD gasifier with vertical pipe and central secondary air inlet with vanes? That could be attached to anything that makes gas below it. As the basic purpose it flaring and creating draft, it should do fine. It would keep the main heat away from the barrel top.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Crispin in meilie-land<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>