petrol/desiel heater ???

[dave89]

Morning,

I have a cellar at home which i want to use more, the problem is its freezing I have recently got hold of around 100 litres of petrol mixed with diesel. my question is does anyone make a heater that will run on this mix there is ventilation in the form of a grate type thing that goes on to the garden.

Cheers in advance

 

[ozzy1977]

Didn't put petrol in a diesel car by any chance ?

 

[Emdiesse]

Didn't put petrol in a diesel car by any chance ?

I figured the same, or visa versa.

Can't think of any heaters, but I suppose there are multifuel stoves... so why not heaters?
Not sure it means a mix though, but what harm can it do! lol.

But, it's probably cheaper to just count your losses on the fuel IF it was a mistake filling up

 

[dave89]

Wasn't me some loon in a rangerover recons he put a 10 petrol in it but i think its proberly more like £50 as it lights when you put a match to it, i was the one who drained the tank #winner

 

[Dogoak]

Eberspacher do diesel heaters for vehicles/boats etc. You'd probably need to up the diesel % though.

 

[santaman2000]

Didn't put petrol in a diesel car by any chance ?

Jet fuel is a mix.

 

[Emdiesse]

Wasn't me some loon in a rangerover recons he put a 10 petrol in it but i think its proberly more like £50 as it lights when you put a match to it, i was the one who drained the tank #winner

Hahaha, awesome

 

[bilmo-p5]

Google 'waste oil heater'.

They're out there but I expect they cost a bob or two

 

[BillyBlade]

I have a clarke diesel space heater in my garage that runs on exactly this sort of waste fuel mix. Machine Mart, £200 odd.

 

[Midnitehound]

Jet fuel is a mix.

You could:

1. Keep it for lighting fires, Nov 5th is coming up!
2. Distill it!
3. Buy a jet!!!!!! Nice one santaman2000
4. Stick it through a multi-fuel stove and use it is a heater or as a cooker.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Camping-s...553?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aca9137d9 Cheap or
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Primus-Om...338?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item417358eaba pricey!
Either way the free fuel has paid for the stove.
5. Bottle it as Molotov Cocktails ready for the next riot.
6. Give it to somebody that owns an old diesel 90 or 110, it probably wouldn't batter an eyelid!
7. Leave it open for ages so the petrol evaporates off. Worth a try.
8. Sell it to the local boy racers to make their cars run quieter.
9. Sell it to the local petrol sniffers as some cheap but 'bad s**t'!
10. Get onto youtube for some DIY burner ideas.

 

[wingstoo]

Shame you can't build one of the "Desert Rat" stoves... Oil drum, sand, Flue to outside...

 

[santaman2000]

You could:

1. Keep it for lighting fires, Nov 5th is coming up!
2. Distill it!
3. Buy a jet!!!!!! Nice one santaman2000
4. Stick it through a multi-fuel stove and use it is a heater or as a cooker.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Camping-s...553?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aca9137d9 Cheap or
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Primus-Om...338?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item417358eaba pricey!
Either way the free fuel has paid for the stove.
5. Bottle it as Molotov Cocktails ready for the next riot.
6. Give it to somebody that owns an old diesel 90 or 110, it probably wouldn't batter an eyelid!
7. Leave it open for ages so the petrol evaporates off. Worth a try.
8. Sell it to the local boy racers to make their cars run quieter.
9. Sell it to the local petrol sniffers as some cheap but 'bad s**t'!
10. Get onto youtube for some DIY burner ideas.

LOL. The point was that I thought he might have sourced surplus jet fuel and I believe some equipment manufacturers make equipment specifically that will use any available fuel. I remember seeing a lantern advertised that would use diesel, jet fuel, gasoline, or Coleman fuel. I assumed there was probably a corresponding stove.

When I was stationed in England we used jet fuel in all the government vehicles and now-a-days the Air Force only buys diesel engines for that very reason (to simplify the supply chain when deployed) That makes me believe that the gasoline content is extremely low though.

 

[rik_uk3]

NATO forces use diesel powered tent heaters and they do come up on ebay from time to time for a couple of hundred quid a pop. Google US army tent heaters and you'll see a few come up. Some of the WW2 heaters ran on petrol, basically a drip burner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel is a good intro into the various 'JP' fuels used these days.

 

[santaman2000]

....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel is a good intro into the various 'JP' fuels used these days.

Yep. Those are the civilian jet fuels (Jet=A, Jet A-1, and Jet-B)


The military designations I'm familiar with are:
-JP4 (the old US Air Force standard)
JP5 (the old US Navy standard)
JP8 (the NATO standard)

 

[wingstoo]

now-a-days the Air Force only buys diesel engines for that very reason (to simplify the supply chain when deployed) That makes me believe that the gasoline content is extremely low though.

I think it is the case for the UK Forces as well, ther "WOLF" Land-rover was one of the first vehicles to use aviation fuel as well as DERV.

Now instead of three pipelines (Petroleum/gas, Diesel and Aviation fuel) to the various military bases around Europe they have one, Aviation fuel.