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Phase separation (todays chemistry lesson)

Sep 4, 2015, 11:56 AM

Its funny, all the snake oil gas treatments like Startron, Stabil etc vaguely purport to stop that, but in reality, they can't.

They might be able to do something about the corrosion that will occur when you try to run the phase separated water through your engine (jury is out on that too), but they can't change the physical and chemical make up of ethanol laced gasoline.

Ethanol alcohol just doesn't bond to gasoline, and will eventually separate...especially after it has absorbed water from the atmosphere and gets heavier that the gas. Then what you have left is a gas like susbtance, and water. Neither burn very well.

The other bad part is that ethanol is a great cleaner..so if it is put in something that may have some older varnish from gas in it, it cleans that pretty well..so it flushes it into your fuel system and engine to burn. Fuel injectors don't like trash like that.

And then there is what ethanol does to butyl and other non viton rubber, plastics, and non flouro silicone. It makes it swell up and then dry out, and eventually it will break into nice little chunks that will also be flushed into your fuel system. Those don't burn very well either, nor does it react well with small orifices that fuel must flow through.

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Yeti experiment last night.

how much salt did you put? I would like to try this, but do

Re: how much salt did you put? I would like to try this, but do

I don't drink liquor much

Some.

I put a little ice in, then sprinkle some rock salt, then a

May give it a shot tonight

definitely worth a try

Downside could be having to thaw your beer in the 90

Auto-pacing your day drinking sounds like a benefit.***

If'n you aint slamming beers back to back all morning you

10 before 10

Ok, I'll just get a tube to pull my freezer around the lake

Another small expense for this rig is don't forget you'll

Thanks, almost forgot. Just need about 10 gallons

Side question: Is non ethanol gas easy to get up there?

Yeah, there are two places within 10 minutes or so

That's pretty awesome

I'm sure it's still in the $3 range at the marina

Up until early this year ours was still ethanol laced.

All the Spinx stations around me see ethanol free

This is good stuff to know.

Try this

Phase separation (todays chemistry lesson)

It is interesting, with all the known problems

because the farmers lobby in congress is huge

Doesnt help that stupid iowa starts presidential primary

I guess mechanics would be OK with it.***

And small engine manufacturers

I'm sure a ton, but I only use the non-ethanol

Use it quickly.

I use a tank about every two weeks, so it doesn't

Maybe I'm wrong

I've done both.

Probably not a bad idea, I've just never done it

For $600 I will suffer the horror of just drinking

A yeti 125 is $549.

I don't know that my Honda 2000i generator can run

I though Step 1 was put a glass of MILK in the freezer.

You have a $500 cooler that you are trying to make improveme

The Yeti would chip the diamonds and ruin my clean ice.***

That's a risk you gotta take. I mean, how else would you

By staying out of nature completely. Has worked so far.***

Then why do you have a bear proof cooler?***

Is ther another cooler that looks so good in the back of a

Its a Z71 Suburban with heavily tinted windows.

cooler(s).

Rock salt is the ####.

Maybe I just used too much salt.***

The water helps too I think***

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