Wallas Fuel

skagit_orca · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:41 pm Post subject: newbie

this is my first post so please be kind.
I have a wallace diesel heater and am getting to the bottom of the first batch of fuel. does anyone who what kind of fuel I should be using??

skagit_orca

dan365 · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:14 pm Post subject:

Hi, I went to the hardware store (McLendon's) and ask for the cleanest Kerosene available. Works like a charm.

Dan

skagit_orca · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: fuel for the wallace heater

very good!

I had read that "parafin" was german for kerosene so that makes complete sense. is kerosene cleaner burning than diesel fuel?

Sawdust · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject:

Yes, kerosene works great -- some products evem seem better, but a little difficult to find here. Clou or Jon can give you more on this.

Dusty
Skagit Orca 24XLC

Da Nag · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject:

I prefer Klean Heat - it's virtually odorless, both as a liquid and while burning, and it doesn't soot. It's pricey, but the Wallas is so efficient, it's not a big deal - you don't use that much of it. On the recent Sequim trip, I cooked two meals, and left the Wallas on for two nights. Used less than 1/2 gallon.

Home Depot and Fred Meyer have both been known to carry it, but it does appear to be a seasonal item, and the supply varies by location.

skagit_orca · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:16 pm Post subject: heater fuel

thanks very much.
I look forward to keeping the boat in as long as
possible this year.

Pat Anderson · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: newbie

We have burned both diesel from the gas pump and kerosene - we like kerosene a little better, they both smell though. Just got a 5 gallon drum from Lowe's or some place like that...If you can find it, I would try the Klean Heat that Da Nag mentions. Deal is, the way I heard it, he and C-Lou Jon bought out the entire supply in Washington, Oregon and California last year. Also, can people who can't spell "Clean" really manufacture a good product? Wink

BTW - I see you are from NJ - I am Rutgers-Camden Law, 1975, lived in Moorestown (Moorestown, by Pennsauken, NOT Morristown!) five years...Don't really miss Camden much, though we did like the shore! Where are you in NJ? Marty and his son Joe on Miss Mirth are New Jerseyans as well...

Jon - CLou · Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject:

I totally agree with Bill, Klean Heat is good stuff. On sale, it's about four bucks and seven bucks at the off sale price. I haven't had a problem with this fuel at all.

And Pat, that wasn't me that went nuts buying up all the Klean Heat, that was C-Lou C-Lou. I think she still has a little bit of Minnesota cold weather left in her veins. Burrrr Moon

SeaSpray · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

I got Klean heat from Orchard Supply Hardware here in Califonia.
Steve

skagit_orca · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:49 am Post subject:

Moorestown is one of my favorite communities in New Jersey!
(Pennsauken, on the other hand, you would not recognize after the Republican convention in Philly. No more strip, just a nice view of the Cooper River on the south side of Admiral Wilson Blvd. if you can believe it!)

we are in downtown Toms River.
As of this weekend we are the last ones left in the water at the marina, so it looks like the Barnegat Bay is all mine!
I think I'll go for the fancy kerosene most folks are mentioning. If I burn 5 gallons this year, that would be a lot.

Sneaks · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:29 am Post subject:

KenMcC · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:52 pm Post subject:

Good to hear from some South Jersey folks.

Never got much farther north than Atlantic City, although did some fishing in Barnegat Bay.

Cape May to Ocean City was our usual grounds. with the boat being kept on the mainland side in Somers Point.

Haven't missed it a whole lot since we left in '76, but still enjoy getting back to friends who commercially fish out of Marmora with a 42 footer (primarily crabbing and conching).

From South Jersey to Eastern Long Island (Greenpoint and Orient) is some really great water. Hoping to get back there some day, but the real estate prices have gone berzerk!

Anyway, it's great to hear about your activities.

C-DOG Ken

terraplane · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:21 am Post subject: klean heat

CAn someone tell me who sells Kean Heat here in the East? (Maryland especially).

tom

Swee Pea · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:34 am Post subject:

Home Depot sells Klean Heat.

John
Swee' Pea

Bluecrab · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:52 am Post subject:

Tom, the Home Depots in Easton and Annapolis had it...it's seasonal, so you're unlikely to find it over the summer. I'd call them before making the run - don't know when they stop stocking or run out. If you can't find it, I can let you have some.

John