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 Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:49 am Post subject: LycomingEngines-List Digest: 2 Msgs - 11/24/07 |
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Ralph asked:
"'m not a petroleum engineer - I deal with trons.....but I would think that they
call it blending for a reason - as in it shouldn't come apart that easy!"
Oh yes it will. The major drawback on this - what would you do with the contaminated water? Also, there are additives put into car fuels, detergents, etc. as there are additives for AvGas. I'm not clued into what the differences would be, especially after you pull additives and ethanol out during the water separation.
What one could more safely do would be to separate out the water and blend the petrol fraction with 100LL. Many old timer EAA'ers like to do this anyway with Mogas and Avgas. My mechanic recommends 70% Mogas/25% Avgas, but i will bet this is a WAG ratio.
John
LycomingEngines-List Digest Server <lycomingengines-list(at)matronics.com> wrote:[quote] *
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Time: 05:44:40 PM PST US
From: "Ralph E. Capen"
Subject: Removing Ethanol from your car-gas?
Based on the test to detect ethanol in your car gas.....
The ethanol absorbs the water that is poured in for the test and has a different
specific gravity than the remaining fuel and 'layers' out. If you use more
water than the ethanol can absorb, it 'layers' out too. Theoretically, take a
large quantity of gasohol (or whatever it's called these days), pour in a bunch
of water, let it settle, sump it out like you would if you were trying to get
a few drops of water out of your airplane fuel tanks (of course - more to be
safe), and go fly with the rest as the ethanol has been removed.
I'm not a petroleum engineer - I deal with trons.....but I would Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you ">Try it now. [quote][b]
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