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Max, assuming I wanted to run methanol just where do I go the get a tank full? It is bad pookie to get on my skin so I don't want anything but a conventional gas pump style. I thing I will stick to my 100% gas.

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Old 09-29-2013, 05:02 PM
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Max, assuming I wanted to run methanol just where do I go the get a tank full? It is bad pookie to get on my skin so I don't want anything but a conventional gas pump style. I thing I will stick to my 100% gas.
For the moment you would have to buy it from a race fuel distributor, unless you made your own moonshine. You need it to make biodiesel so if you have someone making it in your area ask them where they get it. The best stuff is the chemically-pure grade used in laboratories but that costs major money. Racers will use the expensive stuff when they want to set a land speed record, though, because it has less water so more zing. My professor got his from the methanol institute and I think he said he got a bunch of drums many years ago when they stopped selling M85 at the pump. Methanol doesn't turn to varnish like gasoline so it is fine to use after decades, but it does absorb water.
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um.... moonshine is not methanol. just saying.
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um.... moonshine is not methanol. just saying.
You get a lot of Methanol with your Ethanol if you don't do it right. You can make wood alcohol with basically wood, fire, and a copper still. Ever wonder why so many blues musicians were blind?
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max.... i had a still when i was 17. further, i understand where the methanol comes from. moonshine is not methanol.
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Old 09-29-2013, 08:01 PM
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max.... i had a still when i was 17. further, i understand where the methanol comes from. moonshine is not methanol.
Yes, but drinking alcohol works as fuel too if it is high enough proof.
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That proof level is pretty low if you have a hercules MFE.....
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Yes, but drinking alcohol works as fuel too if it is high enough proof.
My brother ran his VW van on white gas or Coleman lantern fuel. He ran out of gas just a few miles from a gas station so he put in the Coleman fuel. It sparked knocked real bad but he got to a gas station. That was many years ago.
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Use a Gasifier to burn and distill liquid fuel from wood. When filtered to get tar out to cleanly run in internal combustion engines it is 35% more efficient than gasoline.

They builded one on a hillbilly show to run a gas powered generator to provide lectricity when power was out. Looked sort of like a still.
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I've seen cars run just on the gassifier. It produces CO and H2 which are both then used as fuel in the engine.
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G'day.

A couple of years ago, not long after we moved in, I brushed past my breaker/RCD panel and all the paper labels exploded in a cloud of labels. The past couple of arvos I've been mapping out the panel. I've got two circuit breakers that I've got no idea what/where they go? I've put those breakers in the o f f mode and am waiting to see what happens, or doesn't happen.
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G'day.

A couple of years ago, not long after we moved in, I brushed past my breaker/RCD panel and all the paper labels exploded in a cloud of labels. The past couple of arvos I've been mapping out the panel. I've got two circuit breakers that I've got no idea what/where they go? I've put those breakers in the o f f mode and am waiting to see what happens, or doesn't happen.
Jeff, maybe you need someone that knows about electrical circuits to help you.

Good Monday morning folks.

Our office looks like a furniture and appliance store right now. My co-worker is in the midst of a move. He sold his house and has to be out of there by this Friday. His new place is very close to my house but he can't take possession for another two weeks, and then he wants to change the flooring and paint some walls. He "gets" to live with his mom for a few weeks.
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Morning everyone
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Hey Andy, I see you are from York, PA. Is the city older than New York? I am too lazy to google it.
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Glen, you are thinking of Old York.

Just yorkin with ya
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I just had a strange phone call. I answered with my standard greeting of "Good Afternoon, and the name of business, this is Glen. The guy responded with "Glen when are you going to gunnite my pool." I was confused at first because I had no idea what he was talking about. He then asked if I was Glen with some pool company.

I still don't know whe I will get around to his pool. It might be a while.

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