Customer ordered gas oil instead of kerosene by mistake.

[WHPES]

Anyone come across this?

Fortunately their boiler was conventional flued and able to run on either, with a change of nozzle and pump pressure.

 

[Dotty]

Lucky that.

Had a farmer over here insisted on using gas oil. Trouble is he has a new he Warmflow. Cleaned it out once. Don't answer the phone to him now because I don't know what I'm talking about. Apparently.

 

[Roger Welton]

Why is it always farmers!

 

[Orry Clayton]

I don't know what I'm talking about.

Knew it... was only a matter of time before croppie finally admitted it! hahaha

Why is it always farmers!

Think it may be because they also use it in their tractors, so have plenty of it about.

 

[heliotrope]

My understanding on using kero or gas oil is the height of the flue
above ground level.
With many oil boilers Bf can be converted to CF just by disconnecting
the snorkel tube from the BF or Concentric flue adapter but still not
possible to burn D2 just because it is open flue.

It's late and I have 1L of red inside me but i believe min height is 2M.
Please correct me if you know different.

 

[Best]

Yes, seen diesel instead of kerosine ordered often by people wrongly or delivered wrongly by fuel company. Not a big deal if standard eff. boiler with conventional vertical flue. Usually smaller nozzle with higher pressure needed. But any of the well baffled std. eff. boilers tend to not work well with diesel, - Grant Euroflame or Multipass are examples.
HE oil boilers cannot be run on diesel, although if there was a small amount of diesel in a tank of kerosine it won't do any harm & diesel is a lubricant on the oil pump.
On the point of mixing diesel with kerosine, Agas need PURE kerosine & not from a tank on a delivery lorry that has been used for diesel, OR if the previous delivery was diesel & the hose is still full of it! Some lorry men have the hose pumped dry into the lorry so to fraud customers, as when the lorry starts filling your tank it registers the litres but is actually filling the dry hose first!

 

[Dotty]

Knew it... was only a matter of time before croppie finally admitted it! hahaha



Think it may be because they also use it in their tractors, so have plenty of it about.

Git..