How much is kerosene?

[spackard]

What you're trying to do is get it to take the generated heat and use it to evaporate the diesel.
For that cat food tin, maybe a minute of torch on the outside of the tin would get the fuel pretty hot then using the torch to ignite the vapor would probably make it self-sustaining. Careful. Once you're above that threshold you'll have quite a fire on your hands.

That's the secret of the smudge pot. Once it gets above critical, the only thing holding it back is choking the air.

 

[Chris142]

Got it going with injector cleaner. Boy is it hot.

 

[jake wells]

I'd like to see you try and bring a 5 gallon fuel container through security, even if empty.

You didn't listen to what i said this is a local municipal airport i pull up to gate and tell the person i need Jet A and they let me in. They offer full service or self service at the pump.

Glasgow Aviation

 

[FordMan59]

Best bet is check local gas stations to see if they have pump grade K1. I heat my home with a Monitor Kerosene unit but I found out several years ago that it would run just as good on Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel. I used drive about 70 miles round trip and usually bought about 25-30 gallons of kerosene at the time Now that I'm using ULSD I can get it at about any gas station in town and it's usually about a $1 a gallon less expensive. I'm not familiar with your type heater but if it has a wick diesel will probably clog the wick.

 

[atikovi]

You didn't listen to what i said this is a local municipal airport i pull up to gate and tell the person i need Jet A and they let me in. They offer full service or self service at the pump.

Glasgow Aviation

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Yea, if you pull to the gate with a PLANE like the picture shows. After 911, I doubt they would let you just drive a car into a restricted area.

 

[JHZR2]

Jugs of clear kerosine from box stores is $$. Add CA surcharges and taxes that might exist and it will be high.

Pump kerosine is still a thing here, but not as common as it used to be. Not all kerosine is the cleanest burning clear low sulfur k-1.

I’ve burned a bit of alcohol mixed with ULSD in my kerosine heaters in my detached garage.

 

[53' Stude]

Friend just filled his blue cans up today at Giant Eagle. They have a pump for it; he paid $3.67/gallon

 

[jake wells]

Yea, if you pull to the gate with a PLANE like the picture shows. After 911, I doubt they would let you just drive a car into a restricted area.

I drive up there once a week a buy fuel and park my truck next to the planes held on the strip.

 

[JHZR2]

Local municipal airport and it is much better than pump kerosene.

No doubt it will burn, but JP-8/Jet-A have low temperature and other additives that have proven to be very hazardous. It’s one thing if you’re transferring in open air or flying a plane. I wouldn’t want to be in close proximity to breathing those fumes with limited diluent air. Engines are effectively an air pump while a burner like this not so much.

 

[NormanBuntz]

Friend just filled his blue cans up today at Giant Eagle. They have a pump for it; he paid $3.67/gallon

When my son lived in Pittsburgh, they called Giant Eagle "the dirty bird."

 

[atikovi]

I drive up there once a week a buy fuel and park my truck next to the planes held on the strip.

There is a small county airport around here too but everything is fenced off and has security gates with ominous warning messages for authorized persons only. Maybe because it's so close to DC. https://montgomerycountyairpark.com/

 

[Hermann]

Paid almost $8 out the door at WalMart 1½ years ago. Came in a nice gallon jug. Bought it to clean the motorcycle chain. Considering I didn't have to buy a container to put it in, $8 ain't bad.

 

[jake wells]

No doubt it will burn, but JP-8/Jet-A have low temperature and other additives that have proven to be very hazardous. It’s one thing if you’re transferring in open air or flying a plane. I wouldn’t want to be in close proximity to breathing those fumes with limited diluent air. Engines are effectively an air pump while a burner like this not so much.

My house is quiet drafty due to poor insulations and single pane windows i have had zero problems. I burn what i can at the moment and if it causes me to get sick then so be it but i am not freezing.