I have been looking for a substitute for Kerosene and found an odorless kerosene heater fuel called Klean Heat. The ingredients are not marked on the label. It seems to clean tar off my truck like kerosene but was wondering if anyone else used it when making Ed’s Red cleaner ?
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I’m guessing you’d be fine using it since it’s marked for kerosene heater use. Probably much better than substituting diesel for odorless kerosene. Worked great but stunk. Was glad when that batch was gone.
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Not trying to hijack the thread - and this is a serious question, but would it clean bugs off the truck?
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Tried the substitution on a small batch and it worked. The "odorless" only refers to it after combustion.
Then I found my local LP gas company sold high quality kerosene very cheaply (in comparison), bring your own container. Look around, often older local LP gas companies sell kerosene.
The next time we made a batch, we went for five gallons split seven ways.
Farm boy from Illinois, living in the magical Pacific Northwest
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In the last year or so I have heard from several people around the country who had trouble finding K1 kerosene, and who substituted low-sulphur, highway diesel and they said it worked fine and was inexpensive.
73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia
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Ed's Red, when mixed with kerosene, smells like a gun shop when in use. I, my- self, like the smell of a gun shop, but I DO NOT like the smell of a truck stop or a diesel pump. I will not use diesel instead of kerosene. We have plenty of kerosene in Oklahoma, just another advantage of living here, I guess.
Mashburn
David a. Cogburn
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Should be good to go.
"Hydrotreated light distillate"
Also in the carbon chain specs as
odourless kero.
lights slightly easier with a slight decrease in heat output but burns cleaner and less aromics in it.
our kero has gone the other way and stinks a bit more than it used to.
Probably sulphur and aromics.
second crack?
I’d use it without concern.
unless they have taken out the bits that did something special??
Hope it helps.
I’m pretty ball and stick. (Atom and molecule)Challenged at best thou.
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Thanks Bud. Just checked with my LP gas distributor here in WV and they also sell K1. You must bring your own DOT-approved transport container to their yard to get it filled, but the price for filling a 5-gallon can was very reasonable.
I asked about whether it should be stabilized. I was told that K1 is unlikely to go "stale" compared to gasoline or highway diesel, having less tendency to absorb ambient moisture. It doesn't need to have stabilizers added to it if used for heating appliances, stoves or lanterns within about 5 years. Kero which has been stored for over a year should always be strained through a filter when topping off appliances, because you may get mold growth, If so it will smell "funky," but this does no harm as long as it is not used as a motor fuel. (Not a permitted use as OTR tax has not been paid).
73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia
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