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- From: betz@gozer.idbsu.edu (Andrew Betz)
- Subject: Re: Nitromethane
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.211143.17516@guinness.idbsu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:11:43 GMT
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- In article <74qPXB2w165w@gilligan.tsoft.net> bbs.byron@gilligan.tsoft.net (Byron Reynolds) writes:
- >Back in my model airplane days, it seems to me that I mixed my own
- >nitromethane-based fuels. If I remember correctly, I could purchase pure
- >nitromethane in a hobby store, and then Castor Oil was added as a 2
- >stroke lubricant for the engine.
-
- you most definitely can buy nitromethane fuel in hobby stores.
- a friend of mind is an rc airplane hobbyist and buys gallons of
- the stuff every summer (its relatively expensive, as i recall.
- something like $15 a gallon?). i think the stuff he bought
- was premixed with 2-cycle oil, though, so i don't know about
- castor oil part.
-
- drew
-
- ps i also thought LOX was for bagels!
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