What's all this then Malcolm, an Englishman talking of "kero"??? LOL! Pond? What pond? The only thing on the other side is the edge of the world, not as is alleged a whole bunch of folks who talk of kerosene when they mean paraffin - they all fell off. World not flat, hmphh.
Anyway, from a previous message about using, um, kero:
I'm told it's done in Sri Lanka, probably in other countries. Maybe they start up on petrol (gasoline) ("in America they haven't spoken it for years"), but anyway they run a paraffin (kerosene) fuel line round the exhaust manifold to heat it up first. I think that means "hot", not just "warm". I guess they know just how to do it, and how not to do it too - probably not something to chuck guesses at.
Best Keith
Hi Chris, Certainly blend it with bioD - I would tend to have a higher proportion of bioD than 50/50 though, just to be safe. On no account use straight kero - in time it will wreck your diesel pump as it does not have the lubrication properties of dinoD or bioD. Kero will not work in a petrol engine because of its low carburetion properties - my father & a fellow student however, during post war rationing, had an Austin 7 & regularly had to drive to & from Leicester to St. Andrews where he was at uni studying medicine. The journey would have used up a years worth of petrol rations. So they "begged" extra petrol from family & blended it with kero & acetone to make up the volume. He said it ran really well on the mix but tended to billow clouds of white smoke under power. I don't suppose modern petrol engines would be quite so forgiving for such a mix. Cheers Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Kelly Sent: 07 April 2005 09:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Biofuel] Kerosene I have been offered by an aviation industry service mob, up to 1500litres of free kerosene. Aparently, this comes from some sort of turbine, and when the fuel tank has a problem, they drain it and are not allowed to reuse it. They are literally giving it away, I just have to collect it. Can kerosene be used as an alternative fuel in diesel or petrol cars? If not I'll have plenty of kero for heating my WVO!!!! Chris Kelly
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