Re: T-34 and Su-76 fuels

[<GRBroman@aol.com>]

Cookie, I thought that Naptha was a thickener.  I seem to recall that naptha is the NA is Napalm (Naptha-Palmitic,If my addled brain is still working)that was added to gasoline as the thickener.  Granted that gasoline and diesel have different properties and flash points, but wouldn't it thicken both?  I'm trying to remember the various additives in US diesel fuel for use in normal and arctic type environments, unfortumately, I can't for the life of me remember what the additives are right now.  
Glen 

In a message dated Mon, 4 Jun 2001  7:42:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, <AMPSOne@aol.com> writes:

<< Ben,  
  
If the tank won't start in the winter it is back to the old "instant pillbox"   
theory of warfare. The naptha supposedly thins the diesel to flow through the   
injectors better (same with the turbines).   
  
Roger that. Most Soviet tanks were designed to deflect flaming fuel (e.g.   
Molotov cocktails) away from the vulnerable bits but napalm, as the USMC   
sarcastically noted in the legendary Viet Nam epic poem, "sticks to kids".   
And tanks...  
  
Cookie Sewell  
AMPS   >>