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Originally Posted by jeff5may
Do you have an idea of how much heat your friend wants or needs to produce to fill his needs? Does he own the home?
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Well, the $500 it would cost for him to fill his fuel oil tank is more then he spends in a winter on going to the gas station and buying a 5 gallon can of diesel fuel, so I'm guessing he's using less then 100 gallons of fuel per winter, but the back up heat comes on for a day or two at a time when it's used.
From what I can find solvent thinned oil is very legit and works well, but is avoided because people like being purists or they like gadgets so there is limited documentation, but solvent thinned diesel is a cheap way to make winter diesel and is recommended in many shop manuals.
If it's going to cause problems I want to know what kind of problems, not just guess that it may be a bad idea.