What happens if..

[melted welly]

Someone had (hypothetically) run out of kero on a Friday afternoon and the only similar fuel on site was diesel. Could that be used in the interim in a kero burning esse stove?

And if not, why not?

And lastly, what’s the worst that would happen?

Asking for a friend

 

[Chae1]

Someone had (hypothetically) run out of kero on a Friday afternoon and the only similar fuel on site was diesel. Could that be used in the interim in a kero burning esse stove?

And if not, why not?

And lastly, what’s the worst that would happen?

Asking for a friend

I'd just do it, worst could happen is change jet on burner due to not burning cleanly.

We changed drier from red to kero and didn't change anything.

 

[melted welly]

Thanks



I’ll let my friend know.

 

[Chae1]

@Adeptandy probably more reliable than me.

 

[melted welly]

@Adeptandy probably more reliable than me.

Fair point, I do remember seeing that video of your kitchen full of flames now I think of it.

 

[Boohoo]

They're a lot more fussy about fuel than a central heating boiler.
I know someone who had issues with a cooker running a lot hotter than usual and sooting up just after a kero delivery that followed a red diesel delivery. Usual tanker driver says the delivery hose holds 100 litres so makes sure the hose is full of kero before filling any tank connected to a cooker.

 

[Blue.]

Don't,it's not worth the hassle, it will soot everything up.

 

[Chae1]

Fair point, I do remember seeing that video of your kitchen full of flames now I think of it.

Fair gets the heat up when you remove the burner and fire flames directly into room though!

 

[Adeptandy]

@Adeptandy probably more reliable than me.

Good chance it will soot up

 

[deleted user 837354]

Good chance it will soot up

Are you saying petrol would be a better substitute?

 

[Adeptandy]

Are you saying petrol would be a better substitute?

You can try it if you want, I won’t be

 

[som farmer]

know 2 people that ran diesel vans on heating oil, meant to add a bit of oil, to lubricate it.

 

[Adeptandy]

know 2 people that ran diesel vans on heating oil, meant to add a bit of oil, to lubricate it.

Good for 60k miles from new, then move them on I heard

 

[ARW]

Father in law is a plumber, he would rather draw 20 litres out of his own tank for us than mend our boiler after it’s sooted up and burnt the jets outs on red!

 

[Happy at it]

Yeah tell your friend not to bother, had a relative who's oil supplier didn't clean the line and put a bit of red in with a small order of kero and they found it it sooted up the stove uo significantly...

 

[Two Tone]

Been there, tried it, won’t ever think about doing it again.
Total disaster!

 

[oilymuck]

Have they tilted the tank up to get the last bit out?

 

[glasshouse]

Someone had (hypothetically) run out of kero on a Friday afternoon and the only similar fuel on site was diesel. Could that be used in the interim in a kero burning esse stove?

And if not, why not?

And lastly, what’s the worst that would happen?

Asking for a friend

Come down to edinburgh
Plenty kero here

 

[Blank]

Someone had (hypothetically) run out of kero on a Friday afternoon and the only similar fuel on site was diesel. Could that be used in the interim in a kero burning esse stove?

And if not, why not?

And lastly, what’s the worst that would happen?

Asking for a friend

Temporarily yes. Kero is very similar to diesel but diesel engines use the 'diesel' as a lubricant. Petrol is a spirit which is why a missfueled diesel will sh!t itself a few thousand miles down the line. All those mondeo fuel pumps that failed around 2006-8? Reps missfueling and saying f**k all about it.

 

[melted welly]

Come down to edinburgh
Plenty kero here

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