Cleaning a Kerosene Can for Diesel

Fergienewbee

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I have a metal 5-gallon can for kerosene. Can I clean it to use for diesel fuel or should I just get a yellow can for diesel. If clean, what would I use?

Larry
 
kerosene is more of a refined diesel like extra high test gas is to regular gas! but I would not run straight kerosene in a diesel engine.
Ypop
 
I try to keep a couple of clean plastic jugs for mower gas around here, and if I need a can for diesel, I just empty one of them and fill it with fuel, go out to the tractor and dump it, then just put more gas back into it. There is so little left that it's 'watered' down by the new fuel in it.....
 
Are you kidding? As long as it is empty just fill it up with diesel.
I have several cans that get used for anything getting low on fuel.
The red cans get used for gas only, but the blue, yellow, or any other cans do get used for diesel.
I have ran low on diesel, and will even fill a gas can with it. It gets used as soon as I get home, but you can tell between gas and diesel easily.
DOUG
 
No need to clean it out. Heck you could leave 1/2 gallon of kerosene in the can; fill it with diesel; and have no problems.

If you live where it is cold you are most likely buying diesel cut with kerosene right out of the pump.
They mix kerosene with diesel in the winter to keep the diesel from gelling.
 
Quite a few cattle farmers in the North run Kerosine straight in the winter. Once sold to a oil drilling co. They wanted Kerosine winter and summer. Their 6-71 pairs didn't smoke the derrick up. Didn't seem to hurt them any.
 
No worries about a little kerosene in the diesel fuel here. Kerosene is supposed to be a cleaner burning fuel and that is why it is recommended for the space heaters. I still use number one (winter diesel) in mine though since my working space is usually well ventilated.
 
(quoted from post at 00:10:44 12/16/14) I never could understand why Kerosene containers and Diesel where different colors, in N MN it's the same in the winter!

Road diesel and the super duper pure K-1 Kero sure smell different when you burn them. I always figured that was why.
 
Yeah, if your concern is "contamination" of diesel fuel with kerosene, then don't worry about it.

Heck, even a few tablespoons of gasoline in 5 gallons of diesel, or diesel in gasoline, is not an issue. They mix right together, so the concentration is negligible.

Kerosene, fuel oil, diesel and jet fuel are all close cousins. Not a problem to mix a little of one with any other. Heck in a pinch any of them can be used in place of any of the others for anything except a jet airplane... The computerized fuel systems in those things are fussy and wouldn't run on the less-refined stuff.
 

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