Posted by Mark - IN. on February 10, 2014 at 16:52:32 from (98.215.76.204):
In Reply to: Diesel posted by sdc eastern ia. on February 10, 2014 at 06:52:26:
I keep reading here from fellas that advise to mix gasoline with diesel. No way. They will mix at first, but they will separate in time. I know from experience.
I've posted this here before. When I was in the Army and stationed in the field 290 days of 365 living in tents in Germany, the manuals said to cut diesel with "denatured alcohol" for all of our diesel equipment...trucks, tractors, generators, all of it. The same for our pot-bellied tent heaters, furnaces. So, this one time about 20 of us were in a GP-medium tent up on some ski mountain, snow about 3' deep around our tent and trucks. It was so cold that the diesel in the 5 gallon cans feeding our pot-bellies kept gelling up, and we didn't have "denatured alcohol" to thin it, so we used about 1/2 gallon of gasoline to about every 4.5 gallons of diesel, and it worked. We'd shake the cans, mix it up, and were able to set the jets on the pot-bellies to light, run, put out heat. OUR MANUALS VERY SPECIFICALLY SAID DO NOT USE GASOLINE TO TREAT DIESEL IN ANYTHING. But again, we had no "denatured alcohol", and were freezing.
One night we all bunked down in our cots and sleeping bags, all went to sleep. We were all awaken by the "WOOSH" of flames taking off big time when the thicker diesel ran out, and the thinner gasoline rushed through the burners, and overflowed onto the ground, burning out of control. Guys lept up from our sleeping bags, someone tried to beat the fire out with a sleeping bag, soaking and igniting it, and before you know it, we were scrambling out of the tent for our lives about 2AM, and the tent with everything in it, all of our gear burned to the ground. Word got to our Brigade Commander, and he, the Colonel flew up there by chopper to look it all over, relieved the Sargent in command, ordered us to dig it all up and bag it, including the contaminated soil, and he flew off and left us to live out of running jeeps, 2.5 and 5 tons for the rest of a week. He was angry, because the manuals warned to never thin diesel with gasoline, because although they may mix initially, they will separate...and in our case, they did, and did they ever.
Mix gasoline with diesel to thin it? I learned my lesson, and these days its me paying for the equipment.
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