I stand corrected, wasn't sure anyway.

#1 fuel oil is kerosene, #2 fuel oil is diesel, naptha is a high grade fuel oil that is used in mine safety lamps (possum lights) as they are known in the coal mining industry that are carried by foreman and firebosses inside the mine to help aid in the detection of low oxygen in the atmosphere and methane. not used as much as they once were. a form of naptha is also used as airplane fuel.

like others said white gas was popular when i was a kid also, used to power coleman stoves and lanterns. good ol days

Jonathn, as I said in my reply, I used to buy white gas at gas station from a pump.
Snowman, I know they call Coleman fuel white gas, but it don't seem to be the same white gas I used to buy. It seens to have some kind of adative to it that pure white gas does not have, I have burnrd a lot of umleaded gas in Coleman lanterns and stoves. It works fine for me and it used to be a lot cheaper to.

I too remember getting white gas at the gas station. But for the past 30+ years we have bought it by the 55 gallon drum or the 5 gallon can. As I mentioned above it sold under the name Blazo. It was usually sold in two 5 gallon cans and packed in a wooden box. Those cans were square and are becoming a rarity up here now. The boxes are still seen once in a while and are called "blazo boxes". Many shelves and cupboards in bush cabins are made from blazo boxes.

I agree with Don that there is something besides "white gas" in Coleman fuel. It doesn't evaporate as fast as white gas. Also, kerosene is not diesel, it is the same as Jet A-50 and a further refined product called Jet B. They smell similar to diesel but are much more highly refined. You can use all of them in lamps but don't try to feed #1 or #2 diesel to your helicopter or or your 757. You won't be going far.

The Coleman type fuels have stabilizers added for long shelf life. I still have a can I bought on sale years ago for $.79 that still works great. I bought like 50 cans 'cause it was cheap.
Anybody know what you have to do to old style stoves, lanterns and heaters to convert to unleaded gas.

Years ago, when I was just a snip of a kid, we had a gas station and sold white gas. It was used in Coleman lanterns mostly.

We also sold kerosene, which was dispensed in a separate pump and stored in a barrel. Kerosene isn't as explosive as are gasolines, but is still very flammable. Kerosene was mostly used back then for kerosene heaters. I always considered it similar to fuel oil. It would not be good for use in conjunction with Speed Dip, as it would take a long time to dry and it would probably leave an odor.

naptha ain't that the main thing in lighter fluid?

BigBob: 79 cents for a gallon of Coleman fuel has to be a world record. I found some in a hardware store going out of business in 1991. The sale price then was $4.75/gallon. I bought all they had and still have 30 gallons of it left.

The only difference in using one fuel over the other is the generator. Some will handle unleaded but the old ones don't do well on straight unleaded gas. They burn for a while but eventually the generator gets fouled up and has to be replaced.

lmao white17

i pay around that NOW

Converting BigBob's .79 to Alaska prices probably make it around $4.75 a gallon.

I'll see if I can find a current local price for the stuff. probably need a cosigner to buy it now.

I sure bought more then one 5 gal can of blazo in my life I do not remmeber the square cans by the time I moved to Ak it was in blue round 5 gal cans but the boxes are highly sought afterby locals here for their many uses. I have a couple one in the shop is filled with rope for sleds and nets not sure where the othere is off the top of my head but my wife is constantly looking for them.
I do remmeber going camping with my parents as a child and my big brother and I had to walk down to the gas station and pump a gal of white gas into a jug from the pump marked white gas prior to leaving. I simply got to go so I was out of everyones hair for a bit as I coulden't sit still waiting to go

You can't remember the square cans ???!!! Todd, you've been writing too much fiction lately. :-))

Ditto on the generator thing white 17. They would burn for a period then the Gen, would plug up.

That $.79 price was from the mid 70's.

What is the actual difference in the generators or orifice?

My dad used to get it in 55 gallon drums,he used it in his printing shop

Yeah the orifice is different and so is the configuration of the generator.

I just priced a can of Coleman fuel here at the local store. $18.49 per gallon.

When I was a kid most all gas was leaded. Amoco was about the only unleaded gas around. It was referred to as white gas.