i have one of those jet engine sounding heaters for my shop and with kerrosene(sp) at around 9 bucks a gallon i need an alternative.

has anyone run diesle in one of these or anything else.
or modified one to run on somthing else:smokin:

Fuel oil will work - too many fumes for inside a shop though. Kerosene burns the cleanest in those type of heaters.

we used to use them when I was working construction, the one we had (resembled a cannon) you could pour in kerosene or diesel...the fumes were awful with the diesel though

Just sell the jet heater and get one of those propane heaters with a dual or triple burner.

The propane ones don't even touch the cold where I am at. I run a 55K BTU heater on off road diesel ($2.35 per/gal here) and the heater works great, and there are no more fumes than w/ kerosene. When you get the fumes, there is incomplete combustion going on, something is probably wrong with the heater, and there will be fumes whether you burn kerosene, diesel, or fuel oil, just diesel smells the worst, but they will all kill you.

Later,
Jason

I have one in 115K BTU. It says right on the label that it will run on diesel, kerosene, #1 and #2 fuel oil, JPA and another form of jet fuel.

I'm beginning to wnder if my headaches aren't from a lack of oxygen, but that oxygen stuff is overrated anyway :flipoff2:

Probably not lack of O2, but carbon monoxide poisoning. Burning any fuel in an enclosed space will give off CO, and if the off gasses are not vented via a chimeny like a conventional furnace, then the CO just builds up in the atmosphere. For exactly this reason I dont run my little ready heater in the shop that often, I have a 65k BTU hanging natural gas furnace in there which runs while I am working, but it just isn'tquite big enough on the really cold days, so I will run the ready heater for a while to ge tthe temp up, and then shut her down.

Later,
Jason

northerntool.com has the torpedo style propane heaters on sale right now last I checked. sizes from 30k btu up to 400k btu.

We run our fuel fired one on diesel... only for heating up something where you won't be in an enclosed area. You can even tase the soot in your mouth after it runs in the shop for a while... no thanks.

Probably not lack of O2, but carbon monoxide poisoning.

Later,
Jason

D'ya think?:flipoff2:

kerrosene(sp) at around 9 bucks a gallon.

I thought $2.99/gal was expensive!:eek: That's some bullshit!

i have a 150 btu jet lookin heater and run a mix of kerosene and diesel. i don't notice a smell at all when i run a mix and considerably less smoke at start up anyway.