Used motor oil fuel?

[karl]

What kind of engine was this that happily sipped away at used oil?

A 10hp Tecumseh vertical shaft. All I did was back out the mixture screw. I put the oil straight in, the only filter is the paper one on the fuel line. It was about a 90% oil 10% gas mix in the tank from whatever gas was in it. I am gonna try a cold start in alittle bit and see if I can get it started.

 

[karl]

Well I got it started it today, It took some starting fluid, it coughed and sputtered then fired up on mostly used motor oil (with the help of starting fluid lol)

 

[sideways]

Briggs made a kerosene/gasoline engine.
A split tank had gasoline in one side and kero in the other.
Engine was warmed up on gasoline then switched over to the kero side of tank.
Upon shutdown the operation was reversed.
HP does suffer about a 30% loss.

Honda used to sell a G series engine that runs on kero, makes 4HP VS the petrol at 5HP. Pretty sure it was started on kero, I bet it was "fun" to start.

On the farm there's 2 old (hit and miss) McDonald crude oil engines. They will run on anything, I don't just mean oil, in the past they've been run on melted sheep fat(smelt horrible, apparently), melted peanut butter ect ect.

I've gotta try running an engine on sump oil now!

 

[r_chez_08]

I tried this on a g100. No sign of going. I will try mixing in some gas and tell you the results.
Rob

 

[B.M.800]

So speakin of mixing fuels, what do you supose would become of veggie oil with a 2 stroke? Or even a percentage in a 4 stroke?