Boots Crofoot wrote:

not good to run the engine in a tank as the water in the
tank will get hot from the engine exhaust and not cool your
engine properly


This time of year? LoL

*please* figure out how much petrol it would take to heat an oildrum
full of water from say 5 deg C to 45 deg C.

If its small enough to run in a drum, heating isnt a serious problem.

The trouble starts when people try to run inboards out of a bucket or
small dum.


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