Nearly Winter Diesel time

[Paul]

Winter additives?
Buy after November and the cost of heating oil soars so I buy in the summer.
As usual I will add a gallon of kerosene to my heating oil brought in June and stir well when the average temperature drops to -5 Celsius.
Hasn't failed me yet and the air temp last year went down to -19 Celsius.

It also helps that the feeder pipe is 3/8" (9mm) ID as opposed to the usual 6 mm and it runs underground.

Central heating tank waxing.

My friend got caught by waxing so he siphoned two 20 liter Jerry cans out of his tank and direct piped them straight into his kitchen boiler. One jiggle siphon and a length of 6mm clear plastic tubing.

I heard of another guy who dropped a string of 12v cup heaters into his tank via the filler cap to heat the oil.

But the best one I heard was someone put up a tent over his 1300 liter tank and used a calor gas heater to defrost his tank and filter.