Running machines off heating oil?

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A couple of weeks ago we had a major blizzard and lost power for 91 hours. Just about every gas station was out of off road diesel fuel, so all that was left when I got there was On-Road Diesel, or Kerosene.

I could not remember if a person could run straight Kerosene or not, so I just bought on-road diesel fuel, but if memory serves me right, they typically mix heating oil and kerosene in a 50/50 mix when it gets really cold. I think the kerosene keeps it from gelling.

 

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The one thing I was surprised to see, was that no one so far has referred to oil types by their letter affiliates, instead, just going by their number affiliates.

For instance, I have always called Home Heating Oil, or #2 diesel fuel, "Bunker A"

And #5 oil, we called "Bunker B" oil

and fuel for ships or for boilers, we called "Bunker C"

It is okay, probably just a classification no longer used, but that has been what it has always been called.

 

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There's lsd and lsd in different states that have different rules as the additive packages varying. Depending on season. If burning kerosene it was recommended in the older engines to add motor oil for added lubricity

 

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The one thing I was surprised to see, was that no one so far has referred to oil types by their letter affiliates, instead, just going by their number affiliates.

For instance, I have always called Home Heating Oil, or #2 diesel fuel, "Bunker A"

And #5 oil, we called "Bunker B" oil

and fuel for ships or for boilers, we called "Bunker C"

It is okay, probably just a classification no longer used, but that has been what it has always been called.

If my memory is not all messed up; the term "Bunker" comes from the marine industry. Goes back to the coal fired days when loading coal was termed "bunkering" and the coal storage holds were called the "bunkers". In my younger day I worked on ship refrigeration systems while they were in port loading cargo and fuel. New a lot of the Chief Engineers that were regulars. They termed the fuel they were loading just "bunker oil C" It varied every were from #4-#6 oil. 5 and 6 were like tar and had to be heated to transfer from truck to ship. The trucks were insulated tanks and had a max road time or they had a load of tar. That stuff was hot. I got some very interesting tours of the engine rooms of those huge Motor Ships. Pistons 8-10 feet in diameter.

Ron