Autogas Tips and Tricks

"tony roberts" wrote in message
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Here in Canada, friends who fly with Mogas use Chevron - they tell me it
doesn't contain alcohol.
Our government is threatning to add ethanol to pretty much all gas next
year.
Aircraft Spruce sell an alcohol testing kit.
I believe that it separates out the alcohol - so that you can drink it -
but I could be wrong

Tony
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Tony Roberts
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Cessna 172H C-GICE

Ugh! That gives added meaning to "rot gut"!

I can not find the reference at the moment, so will not mention the source;
but I seem to recall that adding about 10% water to the fuel, agitating it,
and letting it settle will cause the water/alcohol mixture to be
precipitated. Presuming that my recollection is correct, that still leaves
three problems: 1) disposal of the contaminant, 2) unknown performance
number of the resulting fuel, and 3) increased cost of material and labor.
Fortunately, if the volume of alcohol is nearly as great as the volume of
water added, the contaminant could possibly be burned as a means of
disposal.

Obiously, an effort to change legislation so that contaminants are no longer
added to gasolene would be a better long term solution.

Peter