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Posted by sammy the RED on June 05, 2006 at 20:59:08 from (65.73.153.63):
In Reply to: OK - Another question posted by Randy as in Randy-IA on June 05, 2006 at 18:46:02:
Tractor-fuel, distillate Known as tractor vapourising oil or distillate, this once-cheap fuel was commonly used in farm tractors until World War II. Many manufacturers built low-compression "all fuel" engines designed to burn tractor-fuel, gasoline, or kerosene. The engine was started on gasoline from a small tank, and switch to tractor-fuel once it was warm. Tractor-fuel was a low grade fuel produced between gasoline and diesel in the traditional distillation of crude oil. The refining techniques developed during World War II made it possible to convert this into more useful fuels, and it began to disappear.
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