Cheapest place to buy kerosene?

[Jin]

Where is the cheapest kerosene? Cummings have it for $5 per litre i might be remembering wrong but i swore they used to sell for $1 per litre.

Is there anywhere else its cheaper?

[awayatc]

You getting decent mileage out of it ?



Fwiw

venezuala cheapest place to buy your fuels....

[caspernz]

Do you squeak when you walk? If it's for cleaning your chain, and you're too tight to buy a litre or two per year, use diesel instead.

Don't tell me you're using it in a heater at home...

[Jin]

I thought i paid $1 for it so used it quite liberally in degreasing the bike and cleaning chain. If its $5 a litre then i guess ill have to use more sparingly

[Oakie]

I thought i paid $1 for it so used it quite liberally in degreasing the bike and cleaning chain. If its $5 a litre then i guess ill have to use more sparingly

Not a good idea to clean modern chains with kero. Was the bees knees 35 years when I was starting out but not nowdays.

[Madness]

Where is the cheapest kerosene?

Probably the airport. You'll probably need a plane to get it though.

[george formby]

Not a good idea to clean modern chains with kero. Was the bees knees 35 years when I was starting out but not nowdays.

Do tell why? I generally use kero for cleaning the spooge off and seem to have had no issues. Apart from it not taking clay off.

[Jin]

Not a good idea to clean modern chains with kero. Was the bees knees 35 years when I was starting out but not nowdays.

Well the bike manual recommends kerosene. What do you use?

[Stylo]

Well the bike manual recommends kerosene. What do you use?

I remember running kerosene in my '73 Honda C50 step through, circa 1977. My mate said it would work and it did, to a point.

Ran fine on the flat but going up the hill and under load it started losing steam, then I'd run beside it and keep up with poor thing as it struggled to cope with this smelly greasy shit that I'd filled it's tank up with.

Went back to petrol after that , happiest step through in town.

[Oakie]

Do tell why? I generally use kero for cleaning the spooge off and seem to have had no issues. Apart from it not taking clay off.

Screws up the o-rings according to the mechanic who replaced my rooted chain 3 or 4 years back. A quick google shows many forums say it is OK thoughj so I guess caveat emptor.

[Oakie]

Well the bike manual recommends kerosene. What do you use?

A nail brush and no solvent. Bel-Ray lube afterwards.

[awayatc]

Unless you want to run a kero heater.......

no fuckin different from using regular diesel !

kero was called no 1 diesel

and diesel , no 2 diesel.

and yes its still $1 a liter

[Grumph]

Screws up the o-rings according to the mechanic who replaced my rooted chain 3 or 4 years back. A quick google shows many forums say it is OK thoughj so I guess caveat emptor.

The O rings should be viton to deal with chain lube and it's carrying solvents...Kero shouldn't hurt them - unless you set it on fire.

[Gremlin]

Well the bike manual recommends kerosene. What do you use?

Shaft drive. What chain?

[F5 Dave]

Kero rules.

The o-rings will be Nitrile which is super common and specification shows suitable for use with kero.

As usual mechanics aren't engineers, they are good for fitting parts but fallible to wives tales as the rest of us.