toyo laser55 fuel conversion?

[alaska]

hey i recently acquired a toyo laser 55, the operation manual says it runs on kerosene only. i know that similar models such as the laser 56 can run on heating oil as well. I was wondering if there is anyway to convert the 55 to burn heating oil as well? kerosene is just so expensive compaired to heating oil!

[HayZee518]

the Btu output of diesel is lower too! Use diesel fuel efficiency drops. If yer going that far I'm surprised you didn't suggest bio-diesel. check the toyo site. perhaps your question can be answered there. I know about kero - it's 2.99 a gallon here in ny.

[alaska]

the Btu output of diesel is lower too! Use diesel fuel efficiency drops. If yer going that far I'm surprised you didn't suggest bio-diesel. check the toyo site. perhaps your question can be answered there. I know about kero - it's 2.99 a gallon here in ny.

kerosene is 40$ for 5gallons here and theres no real steady supply for bio-deasle. diesels still over 3$/gallon but its the cheapest and being in Ak we'll burn through a lot.
i was thinkin that maybe there would be some screens/filters or spray nozzles that may need to be changed?

[HayZee518]

toyo, rinnai and monitor all operate using gravity for flow. aside from the solenoid pump actually pumping fuel out of a sump storage tank to the burner head, its all for flow metering. the three above were designed around kerosene. diesel and bio-diesel have viscosities different than that of kero. diesel fuels gel at low temperatures. kero does not. why then don't they burn diesel in jet engines? the fuel of choice is kerosene. the heaters don't use spray nozzles like regular oil burners that use pumps for the product. the combustion blower helps burn the product more efficiently and evenly then just letting it sit there and smoulder. kerosun wick type heaters use gravity and a wick and burns with a convection air currents to effectively combust the kero. try this - take two oil lamps. fill one with diesel and the other with kero. look at the fuel. kero is straw colored, diesel has a bluish tinge to it. open the wick to about 1/2 inch above the burn tube and light it. see how much soot is formed with the diesel and how much is produced with the kero. put the chimney down and regulate the flame until the wick is even or slightly less than the burn tube. kero will keep burning, diesel will go out. diesel needs more air to burn.

[alaska]

thanks for the help!

[HayZee518]

I wasn't anwsering you in this way to be a smartie. I have thought about alternate fuels too, but I always come back to kerosene. perhaps one of these days I'll just purchase a used heater just to experiment with and see what will perform equal to kero and not get all gummed up.

[alaska]

i was given the toyo stove thats why i want to convert it rather than purchasing a whole new stove thats designed to run on diesel.
toyo's are very common here but most are models that run on diesel, which flows to the stoves alright- what i'm trying to figure out is will i mess the stove up real bad or set my cabin on fire if i put diesel in the model i have. oh well maybe i'll hook it up outside for a bit and see what happens.

[HayZee518]

all the toyo-s I've looked at on the web will burn kero or diesel #1 monitors will only burn kero.

[adnadeau]

Toyo Laser

Check out these guys; they're in you area and should be familiar with diesel vs kero. For your furnace, heater, and stove needs. Rural Energy Enterprises, Inc. Their web site has a lot of good info on troubleshooting Toyo products.