Price of kerosine

**RANDLOVER** · 20th May 2018, 03:37 PM

Interestingly Stratco actually still sell kero heaters.

**67hardtop** · 20th May 2018, 04:20 PM

Yes they do and they arent too cheap. Then they sell u a 20l drum of kero for around $76. Or u can buy 1lbottles for around $7.50 $8.00

**Bigbjorn** · 20th May 2018, 04:45 PM

There used to be kerosine and power kerosine. A lot of agricultural and other machinery ran on power kero. Does anyone know what was the difference between them?

**V8Ian** · 20th May 2018, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

There used to be kerosine and power kerosine. A lot of agricultural and other machinery ran on power kero. Does anyone know what was the difference between them?

There was also heating and lighting kero too; put the wrong one in the home heater and evacuate the house!

**Eevo** · 20th May 2018, 06:00 PM

is kero more similar to petrol or diesel?

**scarry** · 20th May 2018, 06:13 PM

When i was an ankle biter,we used to have a Kero fridge,or was it metho,i can't remember.

It was in the Forestry hut on Fraser island.We lived there for a while.

Never worked very well,but better than nothing as there was nothing else in those days,as there was no power.

After a plane drop of supplies,it was sometimes completely full,and we used to put packets of margarine in the lake at the back of the hut to keep them cool.Then transfer them to the fridge as the one in the fridge was used up.

No 12V fridges either.

**austastar** · 20th May 2018, 06:13 PM

Hi,
A friend had a saw bench driven by a kerosene motor.
Start on petrol, switch to kerosene when warm and then adjust the water drip into the air intake till it made a nice 'bark' from the exhaust.
Cheers

**Bigbjorn** · 20th May 2018, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
A friend had a saw bench driven by a kerosene motor.
Start on petrol, switch to kerosene when warm and then adjust the water drip into the air intake till it made a nice 'bark' from the exhaust.
Cheers

When I was bout 16 and a first year apprentice I bought a 1926 Chev. 4 for about 15 quid. A station conversion to a buckboard ute. It had a Kingston Dual Bowl carburetor which I found were originally fitted to farm tractors. Two float bowls. One connected to a small gravity feed tank of petrol for starting and warming up. The other to a tank of power kero connected to the vacuum tank and principal fuel tank. One started and warmed up on petrol and pushed and pulled on two Bowden cables to turn off the petrol and turn on the kero. Power kero was cheap as the shire council used to leave drums of it on bush worksites.

**Don 130** · 20th May 2018, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

There used to be kerosine and power kerosine. A lot of agricultural and other machinery ran on power kero. Does anyone know what was the difference between them?

My neighbour restores old tractors and makes up a version of power kerosene, also known as tractor vaporising oil, from crude oil which he buys in 200L drums.
Tractor vaporising oil - Wikipedia

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Don.

**JDNSW** · 20th May 2018, 07:36 PM

Kerosine is intermediate between petrol and diesel. It lacks the volatiles of petrol, having a legal requirement for its flash point to be above any possible air temperature. It also is specified, but not as strictly, to be cleaner burning than diesel, which means less heavier hydrocarbons. "Power kerosine is the same stuff with slightly more volatiles, but with an octane rating too low to work satisfactorily in most road vehicles, and with small enough volatile content to make it very difficult to work in a conventional carburettor. When I was in high school, a friend had a Ford T converted to a tractor, with two fuel tanks, one petrol and one kerosine. Despite not having a kerosine carburettor, it would run on lighting kerosine once warmed up, as long as the weather was not too cold. It ran better on petrol.

Kerosine refrigerators were an absorption type refrigerator, widely used in areas without power from the 1930s till they gradually went out of use in the 1960-1980s as the power grid spread, and remaining uses mostly changed to gas, as in caravans. They worked quite well, when the burner was clean and properly adjusted. But as with any kerosine lamp running 24/7, they needed frequent attention and cleaning, which they rarely got, so they earned a reputation of being smelly, troublesome, and not very effective. Despite this, they were a major improvement in life outside cities for probably 30-50 years, not only in homes, but, for example, in bush hospitals, keeping perishable medications and vaccines cold.

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