Can You Light DIESEL With A Match?! | Ex-Machinery

As we all know, diesel is an easily combustible fluid that should be treated with caution. Smoking at gas stations for example, is prohibited.

But.. is Diesel as flammable as Gasoline? What are the differences? Why is it so hard to light Diesel with a match? Our video shows that it is possible to light diesel with a match, however it takes far longer to ignite as opposed to Gasoline. This is because diesel has a far higher ignition temperature.

Also, why is this man smoking at the gas station talking about diesel not being flammable?

[Strakaflacka]

Awesome. Now I can smoke at the diesel pump while filling up

[EASYTIGER]

I remember our chemistry teacher telling us if you dropped a lit match onto a saucer of cold diesel it would probably extinguish the match. He was right.

[laurasanchez]

God damn those are some good matches! My matches are fully burned within 10 seconds

[McCalebBooks]

Great demo! Showed me exactly what I needed to know. Props to you for being like, "This counter top looks like a great place to demonstrate burning fuel." Kitchen probably smelled like gasoline for weeks. 😆

[stereomaster]

Do your parents know you're lighting containers of gasoline on fire in their newly renovated kitchen counters?

[jonohoffman]

This was really cool definitely learned something new!

[iamjimb]

"you been burning petrol in the kitchen again?!"

[robertwarrenburg]

Wife comes home and says, “honey, did you make dinner again?”

[tna_handyandy]

So, are you suggesting to me that whenever I want to start my BBQ that I should first put some diesel fuel into my kitchen oven so that the diesel hits the 55-Celsius mark?

[chrisnipper]

I worked with a guy named Diesel Davis, the reason for his nick name, he bought a brand new trailer and put it in his Girlfriends property, when they broke up the cops wouldn't let him move his trailer so he unsuccessfully tried to burn it with Diesel🤣🤣🤣

[fabiomoscadelli]

And then you have the church bus who catch fire with sparkle in the walking dead 😂

[zachryan]

That was pretty awesome thanks for sharing

[kittyvlekkie]

Never understood flash point until now, thanks!

[stilnoxVisions]

Anyone else come here after seeing that Reddit post about the old man smoking while pumping diesel?

[nutanprabha]

Which apparatus us used for testing the flash point of gasoline

[deltab]

I can only imagine the smell doing that inside 😮

[JackieAprileJr]

Where can I buy those matches? I'm trying to save on heat this winter

[xxv]

Thank you. Can you do another where you show how to tell diesel fuel that is still good vs one that has aged 1 year in a can? Thanks

[jetstream]

1:01 ah but notice the match flaming up, as it has soaked some of the diesel 😉

[SDMarineConsulting]

You did this experiment in your kitchen?! Does your wife know? Seriously, diesel is very safe, far safer than gas, you can drop a lit match into a mucket of diesel and the match will go out, don't try that with gas, however this is a little misleading, you can soak paper or wood with diesel, and light it and it will burn very easily. I use this for starting fires in my fire pit regularly. So diesel on its own won't ignite, but it will burn when held in suspension by an absorbent material sort of like the wood match stick.