"Diesel fuel won't explode unless you added gasoline"
I told this here before, but you remined me. Decades ago when was stationed in Germany, a group of about 20 of us was up on some ski mountain living in a GP Medium tent in the dead of winter in deep snow for about a month. For heat, we had two pot bellie stoves, diesel fired. It was very cold and the diesel was as thick as mud and wouldn't drip out of the nozzle for squat. The manuals very clearly said to treat (thin) the diesel with denatured alcohol if needed, NEVER USE GASOLINE TO THIN, blah, blah, blah. We were in the middle of nowhere, on a ski mountain, no denatured alcohol, but the cans on the jeeps had plenty of gasoline, so... We mixed the gasoline with the diesel, and it worked ok. But as time went on, they separated and the lighter gasoline flowed to the top of the cans, the diesel to the bottom, and into the burners first. As they thickened up without us realizing that was going on, we kept adjusting the flow controls to flow more to maintain the same burn. Got late, so we all hit the sleeping bags and cots for the night, sound asleep. During the middle of the night, we were awakened by the loud roar of a fire out of control, which was what happened when the last of the diesel cleared the nozzle into the fire, followed by the much thinner, far more volitale gasoline quickly emptying out into and overflowing out of the pot belly. Half asleep and unable to put it out in time, we made it out, but that GP Medium burned to the ground with everything in it. When word got back to the battalion commander, he was so angry that he left us up there a couple of extra weeks, sleeping in jeeps, trucks, shelters on the back of 5 tons. He made us pay for being stupid. We had to dig it all up with shovels and put it into plastic bags to clear the land of "hazardous materials" and the german government had to come out and take ground samples to insure we got it all. We learned our lesson, and never did that again.
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