Has anyone ever used diesel in a kerosene heater, such as a heatmate model 400?
Paying $10.00 a gallon for heater kerosene doesn't break me, but I feel like they're just gouging customers, so I thought I'd ask before I use it, in case it would make a lot of smoke and toxic fumes. It's not vented to the outside. It will be used in a storage building, 25' x 15'.
I don't want to ruin the heater using it.
Kerosene is a cleaner form of diesel.
It will smoke the place up. Kerosene is a much cleaner burning grade of distillate than diesel. Shop around. Rural King will sell you 2.5 gallons for around $15. (if you have one) but finding a place that pumps it will get you down around the price of diesel.
This is the sort of question whose words have clear meanings and only one meaning each, very suitable for google.
And indeed, some of the hits are about your exact question.
Thanks for the link. I'll get some additive tomorrow, and some rubbing alcohol.
We actually utilized this newsgroup for what it was intended.
When I needed a gallon to clean a motorcycle gas tank, I had a heck of a lot of trouble finding it, A hardware store on Pulaski Highway, the other side of town, had had it but had changed and now wouldn't sell it except in a iirc blue container, and I didn't want to buy a special container.
I found it at a gas station 4 miles away, but later when I went back, they didn't seem to have it anymore.
And then they rebuilt the Shell station, the station closest to my house, and I noticed a kerosen pump there. However now I don't need any. I didn't notice the price, but I will check.
Not rubbing alcohol, denatured, dry gas, don't know about methanol. Little water as possible. I think diesel is more expensive than kerosene here, at pump about $3.00.
Greg
On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 21:05:35 -0600, "mysterious traveler" wrote in
I would run an extension cord out to the storage shed if possible. Electricty is generally much cheaper than kero. For example, in my area assuming
kerosene heat content = 135k btu/gal
1 kwh = 3412 btuthen 1 gal kero = 40kwh = $4 at $0.10/kwh
which is what I pay for electricity. Just scale the $4 number by your relative cost per kwh for electricity.
#1 diesel is closer to kerosene. Depending on where you live you may be able to find it. It used to be available in northern states where #2 diesel gels when it gets below zero but most stations now sell 'winter blend' that has anti-gelling additives.
I bought a can of blue spray paint to make a white five gallon container look like a genuine kerosene container.
I plan to run electricity out there. I've already gotten the electric cable and pipe to run it through. I need to hire a backhoe for the 65' ditch.
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