[SEL] Power Kerosene replacement recipies

[Brock Summerfield]

I agree with you Edd if the truth be known about power kero needs a lot 
higher heat rate to burn fully thats why it was used in tractors
i knew a guy who worked for Ronaldson tippett  he told me during the 1930,s 
40,s farmer put power kero in there engines after a few weeks they would gum
up and lock up the engines had to be striped down i have seen this first 
hand a few years ago a guy in our club put power kero in his 16 hp  Austral 
oil engine it gumed up after a days running  it locked up we had to take the 
piston out to clean it . and as far as TVO fuel in the original hornsby 
akroyd  hand book dated 1900 it states that they used HVO , hornsby 
vaporising oil , that was made of Russian crude that it is stated in the 
hornsby book .
Brock
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From: "edd payne" <edsingns at winsoft.net.au>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Power Kerosene replacement recipies


> Paul .Why do you need to use power kero.This is not what was used in these
> engines.Just plain old ordinary Kero.I run all my oil engines on kero and
> sometimes just for fun my other kero engines and have never had any
> problems.No special mixes.Most of these engines were being used long 
> before
> anyone even thought of power kero.If you get your engines hot enough there
> is no trouble with sooting but we run our engines mostly no load and they
> take a long time to get hot enough to run properly on kero.
> EDD PAYNE
> PO BOX 364 GULGONG
> New South Wales  AUSTRALIA 2852
> 0263742387
> edsingns at winsoft.net.au
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> From: "Paul Pavlinovich" <pjp at steamengine.com.au>
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>
>> Hi guys,
>> Now that Power Kerosene is well and truly unavailable, what are people
>> using instead? If used a 50:50 mix of mineral spirit and lighting
>> kerosene used but it fouls the plugs (not hot enough - too much soot?).
>>
>> Yes, I know you can just run the engines on petrol, but I like playing
>> with stuff :)
>>
>> Paul
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