Hey everybody, Candy responded to my question via e-mail (I think it was to spare me some embarrassment stemming from asking a question I ought to have known the anwer to :^) ). She said the reason you want non-absorbtive mogas is that pure gasoline doesn't absorb any water -- for that you need to add alcohol to it. And alcohol, although it does a great job of escorting the water in your tank harmlessly into the combustion chambers and out the tailpipe, will eat up the rubber parts of your fuel delivery system. In-flight engine fires being, on the whole, a negative experience in an aircraft whose control panel is practically part of the gas tank, this is not recommended.
Makes sense to me!
I guess it boils down to what you buy. I've picked up tanks full of fuel
at
places with names like Bob's Bomber Gas & Food Mart that even my car could
barely digest, and I'd hate to think if somebody tried to use that stuff
in
an airplane. There was a big flap here in Oregon recently because there's
no governmental testing of gasoline grades, and a lot of people who
thought
they were buying 92-octane Super Dee-Lux gasoline ended up with 87-octane
fuel instead. It might be worth checking with the D.O.T. to see how
closely
your state regulates gasoline quality before making the switch to mogas...
...just my two cents' worth. Have fun up there.
Ciao!
--fj
At 7:08 AM 12/19/98, Ed Burkhead wrote:
>In your car, use alcohol fuel to scavenge the water. I've heard that
>the alcohol comes out of suspension in the presence of water and
>combines with the water. This gives a mixture that will go through the
>engine without engine stoppage.
>
>I've had one forced landing from frozen fuel line at -5 degrees. The
>frozen water in the bottom of the tank melted during a 2 hour cross
>country and refroze in the metal fitting where the fuel line goes
>through the firewall.
>
>I'm a telling you! When we put auto gas-line-deicer in the nose tank
>that ice and the ice in the gascolator melted within seconds!
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