Hi guys, This is just an idle thought that crossed my mind, but has anyone tried a little redex mixed with the paraffin to help keep the jet clean from carbon. I've used it with my coleman duel burner 424 model and it works extreamly well. I just wondered if anyone had tried it in very small amounts with paraffin stoves. As i said,,it's just a thought so please don't shoot me down in flames..so to speak.
bob its an addative that you put in your fuel tank after filling up. acording to it, it cleans carbon deposits from your engine and gives you more MPG. it looks like ATF , red oil. dave what about the smoke ? or is there none ?
I have just got a No.96 and was thinking this very afternoon about cleaning various bits up with a spray carb cleaner the gauze and jet mainly what do you reckon?
sorry i'm a bit late in getting back to you, my son needed the computer. My coleman duel fuel uses either the liquid gold colmans fluid which works out to be very expensive here in the uk, so we use unleaded which i believe is more refined than it is in the U.S. HOWEVER...There are chemicals involved in the unleaded which are very good for your car engine but soot up the burners etc on the coleman stove. What redex does is break down the soot, so the carbs are kept much cleaner. This is poured into your tank when you fill up for fuel. The bottle tells you how much to use as it's indicated down the side of it. My only concern is..would it cause a flare up when you release the pressure of the stove if its added to the paraffin. Anybody got any ideas out there ?
Sorry, i forgot to mention.. a friend of mine used this in his Coleman 424 duel fuel stove, which, was covered in black soot from using unleaded. He half filled the tank with unleaded and then poured half the contents of the redex into it as well, roughly 150mls and it was amazing at just how much soot came away. He now uses 25 mls to every tank full of unleaded with his stove and it runs reall, really well.
Kerry, sorry mate i forgot to answer your question. No, there was no smoke at all. My Coleman 424 along with my mates runs very clean.Impressed. But my main thought was regarding paraffin stoves as i've only just got mine and i want to keep it running as sweet as possible, but i don't want to risk anything which i why i posted the question, to see if anyone knows.
Hi Dave Haven't used Redex in years it may not even be sold here any more, but it's worth a try. I started using a similar product for diesel engines (Chemtech Diesel power made in Austrlia). I use this in both petrol and kero stoves and found that after running for about 15 to 20 minutes the stove starts sending out sparks and in the odd case the jet has blocked wih crud.But over all it seems to impove proformance. Chris
Cheers for that Chris. My train of thought is to put half a pint of paraffin into the stove and then about 150mls of redex into the mix and just let it burn itself out. Let the stove cool down totally and then release any pressure thats left in the tank without running the chance of a flare up. I've just got to be carefull i don't burn out the jet from the redex so i may use even less.
Hi Dave, I have often thought of addtives too but you also have to wonder what kind of emmissions the chemical is putting out, will it be safe for you to be cooking around over prolonged periods. (not that paraffin is right up there with good for you emmissions.!)
You can run your Coleman stove on panel wipe, or Aspen 4T. 4T is very expensive so I use panel wipe in my Coleman and 8R. You can get it from about £12 upwards for a gallon tin from any place that does automotive paint supplies. It is (almost) the same stuff as Coleman fuel and it burns very clean so no problem with carbon build up. I'm sure there is stuff in unleaded that you wouldn't want to ingest so I don't use petrol in mine. Simon.
Thanks for the info Simon, the only problems with ASPEN 4t are .. i have to travel to the other side of Sheffield to get it and also the price of it. On the other hane the panel wipe i can buy from Chapeltown which is only 3 miles from me. However.. having done the maths on this, the panel wipe is £12 pound for 5 litres and unleaded works out at £6.21. Redex is on offer at my local Asda's on a bogof for £4. I only need to use 10mls per tank full in the Coleman 424 so the Redex should last ages. The vapouriser should last 5-10 years using the redex additive. A new vapouriser costs about £12, so therefore.. if i only use panel wipe, it will still cost a small fortune over the years compared to me buying a new vapouriser in 10 years time or so. UNLESS...we can find a really, really cheap supplier of panel wipe.
