A coworker, upon hearing of the Greasel kit, commented that as a boy his farm had an International tractor that ran on a dual tank system. It started on gasoline, and when warmed up, there was a valve to switch over to kero. He said it was hell to pay for the person who forgot to switch back before shutting the engine down for the night. ----- Original Message ----- From: "malcolm maclure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:52 AM Subject: RE: [Biofuel] Kerosene
> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
