Re: T-34 and Su-76 fuels

["Rudolf Kies, Ph.D." <kies@intelligence.org>]

Gosh, it hurts me to watch this! I don't know the answer,
but my son-in-law is an engineer at an oil company; he makes the darn
stuff!

I will give you a run down on the stuff in a couple of days...

When I was stationed in Italy, I watched the italian fisherman run their
boats on "Naphta" - a form of raw diesel - diesel #3? I don't
know... just hold on!

Korea has been a long time ago...but as the future becomes more and more
obscure, the past becomes clearer and clearer; don't ask me who said
that, I just did!

Rudy




At 10:50 AM 06/05/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> 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   >>