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MuddyMike · 27-07-2011, 08:27 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Janet" wrote in message
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In article o.uk,
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On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:26:09 -0700 (PDT), NT wrote:

Odd, almost every garden store/section that has greenhouse heaters
has paraffin, at a price of course. Domestic heating oil is the
same
stuff but without "a pleasant fragrance" or the pink or blue
colour.

Paraffin and heating oil are 28 second petroleum fraction, diesel is
35 second. Undemanding applications generally work ok with diesel, and
I expect this is one such.

I suspect it might be harder to light running on diesel, these
pressurised paraffin things cane be interesting at times, normally
cuased by not waiting for the meths to have warmed 'em up enough
first.

I've run mine on old CH oil for the past year and it works fine. I never
bother with meths for the ignition warm up; if you release a little fuel
into the lighting-cavity thing it works just as well.

But very smokey!

Mike