Clean fuel?

Question

i want to make clean fuel for my weed eater (noting that it is a 2stroke) do you think that 90% of 91% rubing alcohol mixed with 10% gasoline and cooking oil mixed in for lube will work or is it not combustable enough?(9oz alcohol 1oz gasoline 1oz cooking oil)

Answer 1

Hope you don't mind getting a new weed eater soon.   Of course you can all ways uses scissors.

Answer 2

ummmmmmm i think not lol. it would kill the motro i dont know so if u got a pease of junk weed eater then try it

Answer 3

You will burn the piston up, if it starts. Rubbing alcohol is not the correct type anyway;  you need methanol or ethanol. The engine will require about twice as much alcohol as gas, so you need to rejet the carb.  Alcohol will destroy every rubber part of the fuel system, and corrode the aluminum over time. Also, two strokes tend to not want to idle on alcohol.  The cooking oil will not work for long, so forget that also. If you want to use natural oil, get some castor bean oil that is made for racing applications. Cut the grass by hand if you want to save the envir.

Answer 4

Burn it up, may even get to see a hole in the piston.

Engine will seize if it runs at all.

Your best bet is 90% unleaded gas,10% ethonol,available at a lot of stations pre mixed. and mix in Castor oil at the ratio recomended by the manufacturer.

Answer 5

Try making your own hydrogen safely. I currently run 2 trucks, my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen. There are basically 3 safe ways to make and use it... chemically, electrically and molecularly, the first 2 being easier so I'll only discuss them here.

h2 gens are a bit different from the Hollywood versions like seen Chain Reaction with keanu Reeves, that tend to explode violently every time a film is being made. However when used in an on-demand system there is no storage of hydrogen and oxygen in it's gas form, only liquid (water) and is only transformed into gas "on-demand" in small cylinder size amounts. It's actually safer then gasoline as it doesn't evaporate, creating explosive fumes in the tank like gas.

Chemically you'll need a 6inch x 1ft schedule 40 pvc pipe. With pvc cement glue a cap on the bottom and use a s***w on cap for the top. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, s******g in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your weed eater's engine. Now crunch up a couple aluminum cans (beer cans, soda cans etc) and drop them into the pvc pipe, along with a couple cups of lye (Red Devil drain opener has lye in it, some Clorox and Drano's do to). Then simply add water, s***w on the top and wait a few minutes.

What happens in simplicity is that aluminum and lye don't really get along so they battle, and as always the innocent civilians (water H2O) that the most casualties, by giving up it's hydrogen and oxygen. This then builds up in the void of the pipe and is ready to be vented into your engine, by opening the valve. You may need to start your engine on gas then switch it off after the hydrogen starts burning.

Electrical is a bit easier. Simply take a small solar panel 1.5 amps is what i use ($9 at harborfreight.com, connect the 2 wires to 2 conductors (carbon cores of batteries work well, just be careful removing it from the jacket), but any conductive material will work. Drop the wires into a water tank (I use 55gal drums), rig up a valve as described above and your good to go. That's it.

Tiny bubbles will form and rise off one conductor (that's hydrogen) and even smaller bubbles that just looks like foam will rise off the other (oxygen). I don't remember which likes the positive and which likes the neg hydrogen or the oxygen.

The third method is more complicated and is what i use for my vehicles. It's just a modified Joe's CelI, there's a step by step DIY guide available at http://www.agua-luna.com/hydrogen.html to walk you threw the process. It also covers the other 2 methods described in more detail.

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions,

Dan Martin

Retired Boeing Engineer now living 100% Off-the-Grid with my family, using Alternative Energy & loving every minute.

for more info visit www.agua-luna.com

Answer 6

Rubbing alcohol has watter in it ,about 10%.