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henry.voris
Joined: 02 Mar 2007
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Location: Pueo Field, Kula, Maui
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 Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 11:07 am Post subject: Re: Experience with ethanol blended gasoline |
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Noel
You Asked... "I would be interested in finding out how large the water bubble that separated out was. Knowing that you will know how much water to expect if you get a separation in flight."
I would like to reproduce the test in such a way that I could answer your question. But I ran the tests some six months ago (for a thread that was running on the Kolb List) in the wide-open spaces of rural Maui, where I could slosh and spill fuel with abandon. An illness in the family has caused me to temporally relocate to a high-rise in Gotham (Honolulu)... I simply do not have an area where I can reproduce the test. With out a sample to accurately measure... I estimate the water/ethanol bubble at the bottom of the jar was about 5% of the total volume. That's an eye-ball estimate... your mileage may vary... As my FireFly sucks fuel from the bottom of the tank, it's more than enough to bring on that sudden sound of silence and the wind whistling through the rigging...
As for flogging your state law makers into making un-adulterated fuel available... Good Luck. The oil companies (paymasters of the law makers) hate the idea. It cost them money to set up a separate system, with no extra profit, just to save the lives of a hand full of effete (learned that word from Spiro) pilots. We got it through in Hawaii, not because of pilot’s efforts but because of tens of thousands of pissed-off fishermen whose boats were conking out just over the horizon. Personally, I’m in favor of John’s idea of “dog kicking”…
Aloha
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Float Flyr
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject: Experience with ethanol blended gasoline |
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Thanks for the reply Henry.
I happen to live in Newfoundland where we can still do a lot of things with reckless abandon. We have antipollution laws here but at the present tine no one is checking. There are a few cars still on the road that bootleg a little 100LL for their big block engines.
Just to let you know all engines take their fuel from the bottom of the tank so be it a PWC, a snowmobile or an airplane water will result in deafening silence.
Newfoundland is an island off the east coast of Canada. About 1500 mi NE of New York. We don’t grow any crops here that would be used to make ethanol and the chances that our provincial government will bring in such an asinine law when we own the North Atlantic petroleum resources is less than slim. I only wish I could say the same thing for the rest of the country. In the pas two years one company did send some E5 here. Apparently when the shippers found out waht was in the gas they refused to ship the contaminated fuel again. It does wonders for tankers.
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