Pure gasoline should be good with glass & plastic tanks... Ethanol degrades certain rubber-ish compounds & the interior of some varieties of fuel-lines... The 'mush-ifying' of fuel-tanks has been a problem for fiberglass boats, too...
So even without glass tanks... 'Keep the booze in your glass & out of your gas'... Fortunately, my airfield has pure gasoline on-field.... On 8/3/2013 8:37 PM, Jeff Scott wrote: > This last winter the cost of 100LL finally hit my pain threshhold when I > realized I had burned $7000 in 100LL during 2012. With a $2 per gallon > difference, burning Mogas will make a significant impact over the course of a > year. In February I dragged my old 100 gallon tank out of storage, serviced > the electric pump, replaced the filters and hoses, then put it back to use > hauling mogas. The only alcohol free Mogas in our area is 90 octane AKI and > is 35 miles away. > > I have been running a mixture of 80% 90 AKI Mogas and 20% 100LL in both > planes. The O-200 in the KR and the O-320 in the SuperCub are both 8.5:1 > compression engines. My KR has sloshed Saf-T-Poxy tanks and the Super Cub > has glass tanks that were made with an unknown resin before I bought the > project. Neither seem to be any worse for having used Alcohol free Mogas. > > I have seen disastrous results from using alcohol contaminated fuel in glass > tanks. One was thousands of $$ damage to the fuel system of a Cherokee 235 > and the other totaled the plane (a Grumman Cheetah), so be sure to test your > fuel. > > Jeff Scott > -Los Alamos, NM > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> NetHeads, >> >> For those who'd rather burn ethanol-free fuel, there's a website that lists >> most known vendors in the US and Canada at http://www.pure-gas.org/ . >> Mark Langford >> ML at N56ML.com >> website at http://www.N56ML.com >> -------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
