<VV> Stale Gas Questions - Methyl Hydrate - Humour!

[John David Thomson]

Humour (Canuck style)
Just don't try using the "new" isopropanol for a Fondue (anybody remember them?).  In the old days we used gas additive (IE methanol) for fuel for the fondue burners and it worked great, but the "new" stuff (isopropanol) has a much different vapour point and starts off poorly, then as it heats up it goes into major flame!  Just ask my Medical Doctor brother in law!  

Regards, Dave.........

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Burkhard <burkhard at rochester.rr.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:13 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> Stale Gas Questions - Methyl Hydrate
To: FrankCB at aol.com
Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org, bgilbert at redshift.bc.ca, corvairs at cybrus.net

> Dad, Bob, et al-
> 
> Yes, "methyl hydrate" is just an archaic term for methanol 
> (insert 
> joke here about when YOU earned your Chem. E. degree, 'cause 
> this 
> terminology was way before that). It's akin to calling sulphur 
> "brimstone" or CO2 "carbonic acid".  In any event, it's a 
> cheap drying 
> agent for fuel, but not a great one -- isopropanol (a.k.a "IPA" 
> or 
> "propan-2-ol") is much better.
> 
> Jim Burkhard
> 
> 
> FrankCB at aol.com wrote:
> > Bob,
> <<SNIPPED>>
> >>     By the way, what do you mean by 
> methyl  hydrate?  Do you mean methyl 
> >> alcohol (methanol, CH3OH?)  The  isopropanol type 
> of gas additive (like "IsoDri") 
> >> is much better and less  corrosive.
> >>     Good luck!
> >>     Frank Burkhard  
> 
> > In a message dated 7/25/2007 10:16:39 AM Eastern Daylight 
> Time,  
> > bgilbert at redshift.bc.ca writes:
> > <<SNIPPED>>
> > I can add  methyl hydrate to absorb any water but what 
> can I do about the bad
> > gas?  There is no practical way to drain the tank (I 
> think they put the tank
> > on  the floor and built the boat around it!)
> 
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