On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:57:28 GMT, Mark Mallory
wrote:


John Harlow wrote:
Anyone?

I had a gallon can of TCP on back-order from my local parts place for about 8
months; it finally arrived last september. It's been hard to find ever since
late 2001. Apparently, the manufacturer (Alcor) moved to a new facility and
there were problems obtaining the required hazmat permits, or some such (so I've
been told.) A lot of places that had normally stocked it just gave up and
didn't bother ordering it anymore. The word seems to be that production is
ramping back up and it's slowly becoming more available.

We've all been hearing that same bull**** story for quite some time
now and quite frankly it's played out. I'd like to know the real
reason this stuff has been limited for a couple of years now. It
doesn't take that long to move and get the appropriate approvals from
the feds. If it's indeed true, it shows an absolute lack of any
business knowledge by the current owners and quickly becomes suspect
for use in an aircraft.


I'd been running 80 avgas in my '182 and using TCP/100LL when I couldn't find
80. Unfortunately, the supply of 80 in my local area (western WA) dried up just
about the time TCP did; this caused me to finally break down and get a Mogas
STC. Now, just use 100LL/TCP on trips (to UT,AK,OSH ect) when Mogas is hard to
find or inconvenient; one quart of TCP will get me thru a year or so of flying,
so I'm good for a while.

Mark/C182L