Irealize that a major goal of this forum is to promote the model diesel engine and basically show that it is just as reliable and easy to use (if not easier) as glow or gas. The model diesel engine is not just a novelty. This is good. I am all for keeping diesel alive (not that it is dying or anything).

I also realize that do-it-yourself fuel threads that talk about preheating, ignition improvers, kerosene, ether, no ether, naptha,gasoline, dopes, mineral spirits,paint thinneretc. can turn people away from diesels. They probably come to this forum and think what the heck are these people doing messing around with all this stuff? Then again, the sheer fact that these diesels don't run on diesel is enough to turn people away.

However a little experimentationis good. I mean just look at howwell gas/glow fuelhas worked out for people in the Engine Conversion forum.

"benchs do not fly"
True, but even if it's running on Davis Diesel Developmentfuel or paint thinner most model diesel engine videos you see in the Everything Diesel forum is running on the bench. Not many videos show them in a plane boring holes in the sky like they should be. This could give new diesel users the wrong impression.</p>