Testing the Testing of Mogas

"Peter Duniho" wrote
If
you test it with Alka-Seltzer, now you've contaminated your fuel with an
Alka-Seltzer tablet. At the very least, you've a fuel-soaked tablet you
need to dispose of, and I'm not sure that the fuel is usable at that
point,
ethanol or not. Just because the tablet didn't fizz, that doesn't mean
there aren't bits of it in the fuel.

I would take an alka seltzer tablet, break it up and mix it in some fuel as
good as you can, and try it in your lawn mower. I'll bet that it wouldn't
miss a beat. If an engine can take that, surely a funnel with a filter
screen will catch all the significant chunks.

As far as the dud soaked alka seltzer tablet goes, Jay needs to soak one in
pure gas, and see if it will still alert on alcohol a few days later. If it
does, all he has to do is keep a small jar around to keep the soaked tablet
in, to use for the next purchase.
--
Jim in NC

Assuming this doesn't already exist, I think it's only a matter of time
before you can buy a fuel testing kit that is either just strips you dip
into a fuel sample, or drops you drip into a fuel sample, and which tells
you with a change of color whether there is ethanol or not in the fuel.
Either the water mixing OR the Alka-Seltzer just seems too unwieldy to me to
be practical in the long run.

Yeah, the ultimate would be a kit not unlike our pool-testing kit at
the hotel. Dip a little bit of litmus paper (or whatever it's called)
into the gas, and watch for a color change.

Invent one, Edison!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Invent one, Edison!

I would, but I'm too busy posting to Usenet.