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twsmith001
02-14-2011, 14:34
hey guys i was just wondering how easy or difficult it is to find kerosene on the trail??
I never needed to use kerosene on the trail. What are you going to use it for?
Panzer
twsmith001
02-14-2011, 15:11
cooking, have a kerosene stove that packs into a homemade hobo woodburning stove
Kerosene
02-14-2011, 16:03
Well, it's going to be a bit difficult to find me out there this year, what with starting a new job and all. Your best chance to run into me is probably mid-May down around NOC. :D
swjohnsey
02-14-2011, 16:29
Use diesel instead.
Sickmont
02-14-2011, 16:32
JP-4 or JP-8 works well too. Or rather, *too* well.
The Snowman
02-14-2011, 17:04
unless your find a gas station with a kerosene pump its hard to find along the trail.
mister krabs
02-14-2011, 17:28
I never needed to use kerosene on the trail. What are you going to use it for?
Panzer
Sniffin???? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FffzU7F6Lc)
twsmith001
02-14-2011, 18:30
thanks snowman
twsmith001
02-14-2011, 18:32
JP-4 or JP-8 works well too. Or rather, *too* well.
lol ur probably thinking of jet-a
swjohnsey
02-14-2011, 19:30
Diesel, JP4, JP7, JP8, Jet A all essentially keorsene.
SassyWindsor
02-14-2011, 23:26
I usually can find petrol jelly and cotton balls as a starter for my zip. I have, a couple of times, resorted to using some of my antibiotic ointment instead, and only then due to damp fire material and the fact I let my petrol jelly run out.
cooking, have a kerosene stove that packs into a homemade hobo woodburning stove
Picture please.
Panzer
just about any wal-mart or hardware store sells it in the garden section for those lamps that you have outside your patio or pool. kerosene comes from coal and burns about the same as diesel which comes from oil
I had a hard time finding canister fuel last year for my msr.
swjohnsey
02-15-2011, 20:39
just about any wal-mart or hardware store sells it in the garden section for those lamps that you have outside your patio or pool. kerosene comes from coal and burns about the same as diesel which comes from oil
Both diesel and kerosene come from oil.
From Wiki:
Coal Oil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_oil)
Sickmont
02-16-2011, 09:08
From Wiki:
Coal Oil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_oil)
Also from Wiki:
Kerosene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene)
Read the paragraph titled "properties"
swjohnsey
02-16-2011, 09:42
Grandpa used to call kerosene coal oil. "Light that coal oil lamp."