Does it smell like household furnace oil ? Just wondering in regards to something else that can have a "diesel" smell

 

It smells like deer poop diluted with kerosene.

 

Probably does smell the same as it's the same stuff, but diesel has lubricant in it for the pump.

 

Furnace oil is about the same as diesel, they are actually interchangable in farm tractors. SLight differences in additives and such, but one can run furnace oil in a diesel tractor.
That said, there are winter blends and summer blends for vehicle diesel, which makes a small difference as well.
Bottom line, they generally smell the same....

 

Come on. Pure cetane (the basic measure for diesel) is virtually odorless. Biodiesel can smell like French fires when burned. Fuel-grade diesel has a petroleum smell that is distinctly different from automotive gas or aviation gas (100LL aviation fuel has a much sweeter smell from the octane). The real problem in many circumstance is telling pure gasoline or pure diesel from mixtures. That can be a deadly mistake if used to fuel aircraft.

If the TS wants to tell the difference between diesel and gasoline, just pour some on the ground. Gasoline evaporates quickly; diesel does not.

If the TS can describe with words (not comparisons) what a rose smells like, then I will do the same for diesel.

 

Diesel kerosene, stove oil, Jet-A/JP-5, Navy Distillate all pretty close to the same thing, same smell.

 

Smells like victory.

 

Diesel kerosene, stove oil, Jet-A/JP-5, Navy Distillate all pretty close to the same thing, same smell.

Ok I didn't know that. Aside from tractor trailers and heavy equip, not much around here uses diesel, so I never ran into it over the years.

 

Does it smell like household furnace oil ? Just wondering in regards to something else that can have a "diesel" smell

It should smell like diesel. They add a dye to diesel used for heating because they don't charge road-type taxes on it. The colorant lets them detect improper usage in autos.

 

Not just heating. Marine, Farm, Construction, etc. are all dyed except what you buy at the filling station pump which is road taxed. At the Talladega 500 a couple of years back they were taking samples from all the Class A pusher RVs tanks at the gate and issuing tickets for having dyed fuel.