BarryG
07-07-2008, 08:17 AM
My brother in law called me the other day to let me know the company he works for has to pay someone to haul away approx 1200 gallons of Jet A Fuel a week. They let their employees fill up for free and are now spreading the word to get a few more people in there to fill up or take the fuel away. They get charged approx 2.50 a gallon to dispose of it. So it saves them close to 3k a week. It is clean fuel. Stored in spotlessly clean tanks. They use it to test fire the engines and planes they build. They are not allowed to reuse it something about some faa regulation.
In any case if I can utilize this fuel I just may. I know that "jet a" is very close to kersosene. Lower btus and lower lubricity. Not sure I care about the lower btu's as it will be free and if my mileage suffers it wont really matter. However the lubricity is another story. I know that dry stuff is going to hurt my vp44 at some point down the road. Is just adding a lubricity additive going to do enough? Should I use straight oil instead?
Give me your thoughts.
In any case if I can utilize this fuel I just may. I know that "jet a" is very close to kersosene. Lower btus and lower lubricity. Not sure I care about the lower btu's as it will be free and if my mileage suffers it wont really matter. However the lubricity is another story. I know that dry stuff is going to hurt my vp44 at some point down the road. Is just adding a lubricity additive going to do enough? Should I use straight oil instead?
Give me your thoughts.