REFLECTOR: 11,500 data for the DH engine

[David Scharfenberg]

$1.10 would be amazingly cheap, I just got a transport load of off road 
diesel for the farm at 1.76.  The difference in on and off road here in 
Illinois is just the dye and .47 tax.  We've been using "biodiesel" 
lately in the tractors, which is 11% soybean oil.  That gives us a 
break on sales tax and the engines don't seem to know the difference.

Dave Scharfenberg


On May 13, 2005, at 7:54 AM, Alex Balic wrote:

> On that note too- I have a construction business, and we run "pump"
> diesel in the on-road trucks, and amazingly cheap "off road only" 
> diesel
> in the heavy equipment- the difference is a little bit of sulfur 
> content
> (they say)  and a bunch of tax- we will run the on-road trucks
> occasionally on the off road diesel if they are on a trip and going to
> run out and the carry tanks have off road in them- you can't tell the
> difference in either power, mileage, exhaust smoke, ect- the only real
> difference is the cost and the color (off road is clear)  I believe the
> off road (which I suppose could be used in the aircraft since they are
> "off road") is going for about $1.10/gallon at the moment.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
> Behalf Of John Dibble
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 7:15 AM
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: 11,500 data for the DH engine
>
> All fuels are made by the same refineries and the same individuals
> operating the refining units.  It makes no sense that specs for one
> product are adhered to while for another ther're not.  Sometimes fuel
> made by one refinery is sold under the name of another refinery because
> of logistics, so brand names guarantee nothing, except that all brands
> meet the specs.  There are several grades of diesel, but only those
> acceptable for engines are found at auto pumps.
>
> John
>
> jp211 at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>  Not in a water pressure contest here over "a rose by any other name"
>> but when I hear "diesel" to me it means lets pull over and get some
>> Texico stuff for the bird.  When I hear "Jet-A" I hear a product that
>> has very tighly held specs just as 100LL or Avgas.Jet-A in Racine will
>> be nearly the same quility as other Jet-A in Nirobi.  Diesel fuel in
>> Racine can vary from Texico to "Brand-X, and get a 6 pack to go" to
>> Costco fullup.  Do you know what your getting is all.  Now I will
>> crawl back to my room here in Tokyo and wait for the words,Thanks\JP
>
>
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