picbits

In the UK, we use Gas (LPG), Petrol and Diesel.

Why do you Yanks call it Gas ? Its a liquid !!!!

skeeterb

Whatever it's called, petrol, gas, pushwater, dino-juice, its getting expensive to buy and it pushing up the cost of everything else, because farmers are having to spend more just to tend to their crops, and cargo carriers have to pay more to get their cargo from point A to point B. That's part of the reason that I am into working with alternative energy sources.

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gerty

picbits..
Gas = short for gasoline...

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picbits

I was winding you up .........

audioguru

Gas can be flatulence, propane, butane, natural, accetelyne, hydrogen, helium, etc.
Gasoline is liquid petrol.

It is called automobile fuel when it has ethanol and other flamable liquids in it.

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Nigel Goodwin

When we were kids we used to ride old motorbikes in the fields and on the moors - one kid we used to know had a little moped, he used to run it on nitro-methane, and it went like a rocket for a 50cc engine!. Never knew where he got it from though?.

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Model airplane "gas" engines use methanol mixed with nitro-methane and nitrobenzine.

A friend of a friend made model airplane fuel for us when we were all kids and was killed by the toxic effect of nitrobenzine on his hands.

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Bob Scott

Canucks too. Same reason you use torches while we use modern flashlights.
We sometimes transport our boots in the trunk.
You sometimes transport trunks in the boot.

quixotron

Yo what direction does the water turn when you blokes flush the crapper?

dknguyen

THat stuff sounds familiar. Is that the stuff that can burn through latex gloves and one drop on your skin is enough to get you? THough it sounds like he was making it for a while so I may be thinking about some other chemical.

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Maybe I should have started a new thread but this seems to fit.

I found info on the web that claims adding acetone at one part per 5000 to one part per 3000 will increase mileage by up to 35%.

We know most such claims are baseless but this one could have some merit. The site sell a meter for monitoring MPG performance. They have motive.

I am no chemist or mechanical engineer. Fuel only burns if it is vaporized. Carbs do such poor job that the people who port heads suggest not to make the intake ports smooth because a rough surface causes turbulence that helps fuel to vaporize and stay vaporized. This supports the claim that vaporization is an issue.

One claim on the con side is that acetone is dangerous to handle. Several of us use it to clean toner from PCBs. Use caution yes, show stopper no.

Some say is it ruins engine parts. Others say no.

I am willing to give it a try in the clunker but have no good way of measuring gains.

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audioguru

It is baloney that a tiny amount of acetone increases gasoline milage by 35%.
Maybe it helps a little when the temperatUre is -100 degrees C.
Ether is used at very cold temperatures.

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rjvh

$3.59 : 3.785 = $0.948 a liter

that's still not bad in my opinion

price here in cambodia hit yesterday $1.27 and is rising everyday now for the last 2 weeks

Robert-Jan

3v0

Where I grew up ether is used as a starting fluid. It burns when gas/petro will not easily vaporize. Not the same thing.

Think of what a single drop of soap does to a much larger quanity of water.

I am not saying it works. What if it does ?

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rjvh

i know that some aditive do increase mileage deu to the fact that they burn the feul more efficient

the burning feul proces in your car enigine is not that efficient

but 35% only by ading and no other modifications is in my opinion wishfull thinking

Robert-Jan