> Gary, You wrote:
>""If you publish your research it will be of great help for posterity. Of
>course if you avoid all that work and simply tip a few, the hint of
>embalming will be more enjoyed by yourself and that will be the sort of
>improvement we would prefer in that it keeps you around and kicking in your
>2 cents.
>"portrait of His Lordshit --whoops, Lordship! I may well may be embalmed
>by then, but I am sure that will be a improvement!""
>I have successfully used methanol for some years now so after
>reading the label on some I just purchased I realise I am already
>half-embalmed- with the assistance of Tanqeray! Following is a bit
>of valuable information I obtained from Clark Lord ( another
>Lord!!!) Incidentally I paid about 30 bucks for the last purchase of
>5 gallons a couple of weeks ago. A lot less expensive that buying
>denatured alcohol at your local hardware store.
>Here's Clark!
>>Yes that's what I use. I buy mine from the local race track
>>supplier. He gets racing alcohol (methanol) in bulk and sells it to
>>me by the gallon. I have one of those red 5 gallon gas cans and he
>>just pumps from the bulk container to my can. The last batch cost
>>me $2.30 a gallon. Pretty cheap I think. 5 gallons lasts me a
>>long time as I don't run all that often.
When you get into the BTU output charts, Ethanol (alcohol you can
drink) has a higher BTU than Methanol. The stuff you get at the
hardware store used for paint stripping is ethanol with 4% methanol
added to make it not drinkable.
Here is a chart showing the relative BTU of common fuels.
Product Gasoline LPG CNG Methanol Ethanol
liquid gas gas liquid liquid
Net Energy
Content
BTU/lb 18,700 19,800 21,300 8,600 11,500
That should muddy the water a bit. Not really. The higher the BTU
number, less fuel is needed to get a given result. So as you see,
Methanol is the lowest on the chart but it still boils my water just
fine.
I suppose if you had your wicks cut such that good performance was
had with ethanol, then you might get slightly less performance from
methanol. But if you tune up your wick height for methanol it works
just fine. I use a 1/4 inch asbestos wick height above the wick
can.<<
There you have it from the Master.
Geoff.
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