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mattmason
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Pan Burners

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For those that use oil pan burners, what are you burning? Or are you using a mixture?

Just got a new loco and it is a pan burner, and I am a rock burner so it is new to me.
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I used diesel fuel in mine. Worked great. It was in a Allen 10 wheeler
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Sometimes i added a little Kerosene - It seemed to reduce the amount of un-burnt soot going up the stack.
But straight diesel has higher BTU/unit volume.
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All comes from the rocks...

Kero can burn cleaner if settings are a bit off
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
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The late Cal Tinkham used half kero, half diesel. Kero is/was very expensive, the diesel put out fumes, so it was a compromise.
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