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Distillate -v- Kerosene

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Tom Windsor

08-05-2006 18:11:51




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I asked this question before but I think was lost in the clutter:

What exactly was the distillate that was used in these tractor engines? Was it the stuff we affectionately call "Moonshine" or "Stump water" here in NC




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dej(JED)

08-07-2006 05:50:28




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 Re: Distillate -v- Kerosene in reply to Tom Windsor, 08-05-2006 18:11:51  
The middle distilate varied from crude tocrude , so it is really hard to ascribe a composition. Crudes can vary from high API to LOw API, some are sweet and some are sour. All in all they were often very different. Also octane back then was different than today. Todays octane isa number derived from tests performed on 2 different engines and teh results from both are then averaged. Back then their wasonly a performance number derived from the Research Engine. It was a lot more generous than than todays octane numbers.

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Nebraska Cowman

08-05-2006 18:30:01




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 Re: Distillate -v- Kerosene in reply to Tom Windsor, 08-05-2006 18:11:51  
Tom, what it is was a product of an outdated refining process. As each grade of fuel was drawn off the distiling tower there was a certain amount that was kinda inbetween grades, this was drawn off and dumped in a barrel mixed with all the other castoff inbetween fuels and made up "distilate"
So that's what it is and was and all there'll ever be cuz they have changed the refining process and don't have it no more.

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randy hall

08-05-2006 18:19:07




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 Re: Distillate -v- Kerosene in reply to Tom Windsor, 08-05-2006 18:11:51  
you will get all kind of answers about the mix that makes distillate fuel. it is roughly half gasoline and half fuel oil. it makes less power than gasoline but it was cheaper. kerosine will make less power yet. in a farmall m owners manual it says for a gasoline engine you need gasoline that is 70 octane the distillate engine will use 30 octane fuel and a kerosine engine uses 0 octane fuel.



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