The legal issues with refining your own fuel, with the fire
department and EPA [fed and state] will make you not want to
become an amateur chemist. Easier to ask your local fuel
distributor to get you 300-1,000 gallons of the fuel you
want, you'll get a better price and not have to worry about
the fuel damaging the system, lye is very corrosive.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Dave S" wrote in message
nk.net...
| Yes. It would settle.. and what remains will be a lower
octane grade of
| gasoline.
|
| Sounds like a plan, but can get to be a pain with large
quantities.
|
| Dave
|
|
| Grumman-581 wrote:
| I'm starting to notice a lot more pumps around these
days with a
| notice that they may contain up to 10% ethanol in the
fuel mixture...
| Of course, they kind of puts a crimp in my autogas STC
for my plane,
| but it got me to thinking if there might be a way to
separate out the
| alcohol from the fuel mixture... The bio-diesel folks
mix alcohol and
| lye with their veggie oil while they are making their
fuel and then
| 'wash' the fuel later by adding water to it and either
draining the
| water and glycerin from the bottom or pump the
bio-diesel off the
| top... Could we do something like that with autogas? We
wouldn't need
| the lye part of it, but wouldn't the water mix with the
alcohol and
| settle to the bottom?