Gasohol

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Blueskies" wrote:

If this special clean gas w/o alcohol is brought to the airport and kept
there, doesn't it pretty much miss the point of
the autogas STC? The whole idea was to be able to use normal autogas in
these
old low compression engines.

I thought one objective was to avoid using the 100LL in engines that were
prune
to lead fouling.

Wouldn't prunes give them gas?

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 17:29:04 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:


"Bob Noel" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Blueskies" wrote:

If this special clean gas w/o alcohol is brought to the airport and kept
there, doesn't it pretty much miss the point of
the autogas STC? The whole idea was to be able to use normal autogas in
these
old low compression engines.

I thought one objective was to avoid using the 100LL in engines that were
prune
to lead fouling.

Wouldn't prunes give them gas?

Although gas might be a byproduct, prunes are primarily an agent for
cleaning out all the old crap which should leave the engine nice and
clean on the inside.

On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:46:29 GMT, "Blueskies"
wrote:


"David Lesher" wrote in message ...
"Peter Dohm" writes:


Given the issue with alcohol, and the fact it is injected at the
last stage - truck loading -- why aren't the STA owners such as EAA
running campaigns to set up procedures for FBO's to procure untainted
autogas?

I really doubt that the terminal operators are so ignorant as to make that a
problem.

Ha!


OTOH, there are some real problems for the FBO to overcome. One FBO owner,
who I know, stopped selling gasolene several years ago--saying that he
sometimes suspected that he lost more to evaporation than he pumped.


That's a "selling autogas" problem;
vice "finding un-Ethenol'ed autogas to sell" one.

Agreed the first may be an issue..

BUT if you have a gaggle of STA'ed aircraft owners based there and
you but not evry EatHerAndGetGas sells what they want and need....




If this special clean gas w/o alcohol is brought to the airport and kept there, doesn't it pretty much miss the point of
the autogas STC? The whole idea was to be able to use normal autogas in these old low compression engines.


No, the point was to be able to use gasoline with less lead than the
currently available 100LL AvGas whick gives many older engines
"morning sickness" due to lead deposits making valves sluggish.


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