Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 18, 2009 at 15:57:12 from (209.226.247.171):
In Reply to: Re: Hugh Mackay posted by Bus Driver on January 18, 2009 at 14:21:09:
Bus Driver: I'm not trying to attack anyone. I also happen to have training in chemicals, being an ag college graduate, and until last year held a Canadian Government lisense to handle and use restricted chemicals, thus I know all the hazzard warnings and how to find out more about any specific chemical.
Since the beginning of my career the active ingrediant in any diesel fuel additive designed to prevent gelling or freeze up has been Methyl Hydrate. Yes, we know it's dangerous; poisioness, flamable and explosive, however so are many other products we use. For the most part diesel fuel additives are nothing more than a mixture of MH and fuel oil or kero, designed to do nothing more than prevent the inexperienced user from using more MH than necessary to do the job. MH is not harmful to gasoline or diesel engines. I'm living proof of that; 6 diesel engines that burnt gallons of MH and everyone of them went 10,000 to rebuild both pump and engine. I've used it in countless gas tractors, cars and trucks, always got higher than average life out of my engines.
Even in the day when I was farming and running 7 tractors, 2 skid loaders, 4 trucks and a car I used less than 2 gallons of MH per winter. That included use in fuel, lock deicer, beefing up windshield washer and thawing air brakes. I never had a plane to deice. Today I just have a car, pickup and 3 offset Farmalls. I noticed last fall that last years MH jug only contained about a cup, thus I bought a new jug, haven't opened that one yet. I can tell you MH is damn handy when you get a fill up of gas containing water. Get a Farmall 140 with sediment bowl solid ice, add 20 cc of MH and within 5 min you have fuel flowing to carb. And don't critize me for the way I handle fuel, I know how refiners store fuel and one slip of a tank farm shut off can add water to my fuel, big time.
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