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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Methanol in gas, detergent fuels
- Message-ID: <1992Oct14.200657.29692@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 14 Oct 92 20:06:57 GMT
- References: <1992Oct13.001009.17529@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Oct13.162429.23100@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
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- In article <1992Oct13.162429.23100@cabot.balltown.cma.COM> welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty) writes:
-
- >methanol is very corrosive to many metals, and damages certain
- >types of rubber fuel line.
-
- I've done a set of relative corrosion tests (a year or two ago after
- a long sci.energy debate) that showed the much ballyhooed 'very
- corrosive' claim was only true if you allowed for water to be
- defined as 'very very corrosive'. Yes, methanol is more 'corrosive'
- than gasoline. But methanol is LESS corrosive than WATER in most
- cases (some odd combinations of metals can go a little faster in
- methanol than in water). AND, this can be cotrolled with addatives
- in the gasoline.
-
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- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
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