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#4580764 - 09/21/21 11:17 PM Re: Jumped into balsa and glow engines [Re: Nixer]  
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Originally Posted by Nixer
Yeah they did. Some of the old fuel was pretty hot... as in Nitro Methane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_fuel


Still can be.

``The presence of methanol causes the glow plug found in model engines to heat via a catalytic reaction with the platinum metal wire element which glows in the presence of methanol vapor.``

We would check the plug with no vapor present.


There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB.
The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed.
There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#4580767 - 09/22/21 12:57 AM Re: Jumped into balsa and glow engines [Re: messyhead]  
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I lived on a boat that pumped on; carried, and then pumped off to an oil platform 90 miles offshore, 37,000 gallons of methanol two or 3 times a week...in all kinds of "wonderful" conditions. I lasted a year until an almost collision with that platform with a boat full of methanol vapor. The main oilfield genius that caused it, by not being at his station, thought I was dumb for worrying about an "empty boat".

Great stuff, burns clear and the fumes are basically high explosive. I got away by literally inches.


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