On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:20:27 GMT, Tom Francis
wrote:

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:06:04 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:


What is heavy fuel oil? This is said to be a 2-stroke diesel, but
runs on "heavy fuel oil."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil#Bunker_fuel

Thanks. According to that
"HFO (Heavy fuel oil) - Pure or nearly pure residual oil, roughly
equivalent to No. 6 fuel oil."

Since I worked with what this page calls No. 5 (Navy Special) and used
diesel oil and a wire brush to get it off my hands, this "diesel" is a
different animal than you may think.
A filthy nasty beast once it's fired up.
Interesting.

--Vic