I remember seeing a TV show where kids were stealing jet fuel from a military base or pipeline to use in their “tuner” cars. A car blew up because of this and killed a kid. That’s not likely to happen, since a gas engine car would have a hard time starting on jet fuel, let alone blowing up, since jet fuel’s a lot less volatile. Oh well, I guess it made a good story for a TV show and helped keep people confused about the difference between jet fuel and Avgas, which is high-octane gasoline for piston-engine aircraft. If a car can blow up on pump gas, it can blow up on Avgas just as well.
I have asked this question before and didn’t get an answer (that i can remember)
I have a Jungers Blue Flame oil heater Pictured here. Picture This is a hunting shack heating stove.
And this heater has a burner in it like this Picture, (these burners pictured are not complete as the top caps are missing, however the soot buildup shown is just like the sooting i am getting.
I have always in the past burned Kerosene in this stove but the supplier doesn’t carry it and its a long way to the nearest dealer and prices are very high, anyway i ran across an old Machinist that used a stove like this in his shop and he stated that #1 Fuel oil will work and I had tried this before and got poor results but i tried it again last week.
After 2 hours of cleaning all the burner pieces I got the stove to light. The flame was red and sooty and and very poor, stove did not put out the heat Kerosene would with the nice blue flame,
**Anyway in the absents of Kero is there any way to treat the fuel oil to burn the same as Kero?? **I have tried adding gasoline up to 25 % and the stove lights easier but dirty flame and lots of soot.
No.
Kero evaporates but fuel oil does not.
When you use the gasoline/fuel oil mix, you get the gasoline evaporating and burning, and then the fuel oil doesn’t burn properly.
Besides you also risk a gasoline vapor explosion, which is very dangerous
Kerosene is tested to avoid production of vapor, while vaporisation is an essential property of gasoline. Your equipment is not designed to handle gasoline vapor if its designed for kerosene.
I thank you and i have had negative results doing so.
BUT, others claim that #1 Fuel oil will burn in these kind of stoves and claim they use it all the time. I on the other hand have purchased fuel at the pump that claims to be #1 and the price is reflecting such and am unable to burn it in the same exact stove.
So my next question should be, how can one determine that a fuel is in fact #1 and not #2 or HHO? the only way i can think of is a bottle of suspect #1 at -30F
I see a lot of fuel stations in my area sell blends and list the % of #1 at a particular month but the pump i bought from simply lists #1???
Its the availability, or the Lack of a close by vendor for Kerosene that causes my issues although the price also makes a difference.
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