Coal Oil?

[Silver Creek Slim]

What was coal oil? What is the same as kerosene?

Slim

[Prof. Bullspit]

I believe that coal oil is the same as kerosene.

[Delmonico]

Coal oil is a distilate of petroleum called kerosene in this country, but called paraffin in England.  What we call paraffin in England is called paraffin wax there.

The reason it is called coal oil is that the early petroleum wells were in Western Pennsyvania a region famous for coal. 

[Silver Creek Slim]

I have a 55 gal barrel of paraffin in the shed. It burns cleaner than kerosene. Doesn't stink like kerosene. But it has a higher freezing point than kerosene. I keep a gal of it in the basement so I can use it during the winter.

Slim

[Delmonico]

What color is it?  It is still kerosene, they refine it a bit better and make it funny colors for the space heater folks and charge more, but it is still the same basic thing. 

[Silver Creek Slim]

What color is it?  It is still kerosene, they refine it a bit better and make it funny colors for the space heater folks and charge more, but it is still the same basic thing. 

It is clear - no color.

Slim

[Delmonico]

The last we bought was red, looked like thin ATF.  The antique tractor guys gave us some of the old stuff that looks like tea and stinks like it should a couple of years back.  Guess they don't want ta burn foo foo kerosene in the kerosene burners.

[Gen Lew Wallace]

He said "foo foo".   

[Delmonico]

If I called it what I ussually do "Yuppie Kerosene" Slim might be offended.

Foo Foo Coffee is any that has flavorings in it. 

[Brazos Bucky Smith]

Naw, ya can't offend Slim, he is a right nice guy, kinda laid back.

BB

[Silver Creek Slim]

Now ya did it! Ya offended me. See if I let ya say poop in the Hysterical room again. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

Fecal Material.   The poop and the poop deck are at the back of a sailing ship (stern).  That is also the part of the ship where the facilites than hung over the railing were.  To go poop meant ya went ta the back of the ship and defecicated.  So poop is a part of history.

[Silver Creek Slim]

I always wondered about the origin of that term. Thanks, Delmonico for the edjimacation. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

That's one theroy to the term, the other it the noise that is often made when there is a lot of methane gas and trace amounts of other gases involved in the proccess.


Despite rumors to the contrary I do know S&&&.

[Trinity]

... Foo Foo Coffee is any that has flavorings in it. 

You said it!

Hey, is there anything ya don't know about???

[Delmonico]

I'm lousy at math.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

hey, Delmonico, i like to use that yuppie kerosene in my oil lamps, you know the colored stuff. we use them when the power goes out due to storms or when some yahoo tries to drink and drive and fails ending up at a pole! Lamplighter is the brand, I think. They do have some marked as purer?, guess it burns cleaner. Like to use the old timey lamps just for the ambiance( hows that for a high falutin' word?)............Buck

[Delmonico]

Shhh, don't tell anyone I said this but, "If yer gonna use it in the house it will smell better than the old time stuff," shhh.  I use them outside so it don't make much difference what I use in them, as long as I wash my hands after filling them.   Have used dieseil fuel a time or two, cause that all that was handy.  Olive oil will work too if thats all you have, even biblical.  "Give me oil in my lamp keep it burnin', burnin, burnin."   Thats what the oil used in lamps in bible stories is.

One thing I don't like ta use is the foo foo scented oil from craft stores, some of it will get gummy in storage in the wick, like over winter.

[El Peludo]

Delmonico Says:

One thing I don't like ta use is the foo foo scented oil from craft stores, some of it will get gummy in storage in the wick, like over winter.

And, that foo-foo stuff also loses its foo after a while, and starts to smell like rank old kerosene; which, of course, it is.  If ya don't burn the lamps dry, or pour the foo-foo stuff out, and clean them up, they can get stinky.

[Delmonico]

I kinda like the smell of coal oil, kinda like Hoppes #9 with out the bannana smell.  Smells better en' some of the foo foo they put in it.