I think in the UK T.V.O. would be right. Is that what you would run say a Fordson E27N petrol "kero" tractor on ? Out here in Australia they have always called it power kero, I think that may be the American name. We use Jet A aircraft and helecopter fuel as a substitute in the tractors because power Kero is not available at all through normal sales channels and that is a substitute.
Re: What would you run an oil engine on.
Nov 13, 2006
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I may just have given out some wrong information and was wondering if any
> one here could tell me what you would run an oil engine on in the UK. I am
> talking of engines such as Crossleys Hornsbys Tangys Blackstones ect of the
> surface vapourising type. I have always used lighting kerosene (like you
> would put in a lamp, I think you call it parrafin in the UK) and have told a
> lot of people in the past not to use power Kerosene like you would use in a
> petrol kero tractor under any circumstances. I gave out this advice a short
> time ago on the Australian T.O.M.M. forum and have had a contradictory
> response from somone I like and who's opinion I value and yet from personal
> experience and what I was told by the older operators of these machines when
> I was a lot younger I believe Power kero is too volatile for this type of
> engine. What would you advise to use in the UK ?
By "Power Kero" do you mean TVO? (Tractor Vaporising Oil) See
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