Fuel rating

[Gray E Fowler]

Oil content is easy by the evaporative method. Nitro content is not 
without some analytical equipment. Chances are if it evaporated  it is 
more methanol than nitro. So figure if the oil content increased so did 
the nitro.



Gray Fowler
Principal Chemical Engineer
Composites Engineering




"Earl Vincent" <ev3464 at sccoast.net>
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Do any of you chemical engineers know of a homebrew way of finding the 
nitro and or oil content of any
given volume of fuel, I have had some mixed runs from a few gallons that I 
purchased at the same time, all
were kept out of sun and sealed and I am trying to get to the bottom of 
the problem, running a gallon of higher
nitro and all problems went away. I have tried to evaporate the methenol 
and nitro off in a marked cylinder but
do not know how accurate it is.
Earl

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