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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
That's likely the method most mechanics use in T2K, substituting something else (vegetable oil perhaps) for the small amount of diesel.
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I don't think vegetable oil will work. Most plant oils tend to have high autoignition temperatures (406C for cooking oil, 424C for canola, 435C for olive). Kerosene (which can be distilled from the liquid obtained from heating shale or coal) is at 220C, closer to diesel's 256C.