<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Jim! Another fine idea. I burned a kerosene torpedo heater in my garage workshop for years. Then I had one particularly busy winter where I was out there all day, all weekend, for three or four weeks in a row, and after a while I was noticing headaches and/or lightheadedness and a touch of nausea, so I got rid of it. Can't think of anyone I know that has one right off the top of my head. But this idea would have worked fine a few years ago. I think maybe MikeM's idea to dilute it in my waste engine oil might be a winner.</div><div><br></div><div>SO</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 3:03 PM Jim Becker <<a href="mailto:mr.jebecker@gmail.com">mr.jebecker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Do you have or know somebody nearby with a torpedo heater? I don’t
think I would hesitate to use it in one of them.</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="soffiler@gmail.com">Stephen
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 21, 2021 12:00 PM</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks everyone, so far. This has nothing to do with
frugality. It's like $3.00 worth of fuel. This is more about the
only two choices I'm seeing at the moment: burn it; or store it for a
relatively long time until I can get around to disposing of it properly.
As for use as a degreaser, I use mineral spirits for that. Trailer
decking, I don't own a trailer. As for brush burning, I don't. I
either shred brush or cart it to my local transfer station who has a big
brush-pile and chipper/composting operation.<br></div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 12:40 PM Jason
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<div>Your 5 to 1 idea sounds fine as long as it's older non-electronically
controlled injection system.
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<div>IH 1066 sure. Case IH MX 285 with CAPS fuel system, never in a million
years.</div>
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<div>Jason</div></div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 9:31 AM Stephen Offiler
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<div>I recently discovered I have a diesel fuel leak, and while trying to
find time for diagnosis and repair, I started parking the tractor over a big
drip-pan. The pan collected roughly a gallon over the course of ...
well, I can't say precisely but around a week or two. That fuel
dripped thru the normal grime found on engines, so it's pretty dirty.
(And I since discovered that turning off the fuel petcock effectively
controls the leak)<br></div>
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<div>I have filtered it multiple times. First thru paper towel;
clogged three or four getting that done. Next thru coffee filters,
again, it took 4 to finish the job. Finally thru a Covid mask (regular
surgical type not N95). That one never clogged and captured very
minimal additional material.</div>
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<div>What I have now is therefore free of particulate big enough to catch in
coffee filters and surgical masks. It remains discolored; if fresh
diesel was the color of Budweiser, this stuff looks like a nice brown
ale.</div>
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<div>What says the list? Burn it? Will the tractor's fuel filter
take out everything big enough to cause problems with the pump or
injectors? (Seems like that should be a design criteria for that
filter, no?) If I do burn it, I will dilute it about 5:1 with fresh
fuel. <br></div>
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<div>If I don't burn it, it will eventually be carted away to our local
Hazardous Waste Day held annually about 25 miles from here - I manage to
remember and get over there only about once every 3-5 years.</div>
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