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Re: Mixing gas with diesel fuel


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Posted by Mark - IN. on December 21, 2008 at 18:34:24 from (64.12.117.74):

In Reply to: Mixing gas with diesel fuel posted by Mark VL on December 20, 2008 at 14:39:53:

Bad bad bad idea. They will seperate, the diesel being of heavier gravity will sink to the bottom, and the gasoline will end up on the top. After the diesel is run through, will be pure gasoline being fed. I can prove it from personal experience. When was in the Army living up on some mountain top in Germany with a bunch of other guys in a GP Medium tent, in the winter, we used pot-bellied stoves that burned diesel. The manuals very clearly said never thin the diesel with gasoline, only use denatured alcohol. We didn't have any denatured alcohol up on that mountain to thin that diesel that was thick as mud, but the jeeps sure had gasoline, so guess what we did. Yep, cut the diesel with gasoline and it worked for awhile until they seperated, the diesel ending up at the bottom being burned first. As they seperated the diesel became thicker and someone(s) kept adjusting the burner to keep the fire burning. We all crawled into out sleeping bags on our cots and went to sleep for the night, only to be awakened later by the pot-belly burning out of control and overflowing after the much thinner gasoline hit the burner. That tent burned down to the ground with some twenty sleeping bags, cots, and everything else while we scrambled out of there for our lives. The batallion commander, a colonel was so ticked off at us that he left us up on that mountain living in heated communications shelters for a week with no coats, nothing except the clothes on our backs...because we should've known better.

You have my personal guarantee that mixing gasoline with diesel to cut or thin it is a very lousy idea.

Mark


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