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Default RE: I live in a country where I can't get Methanol, any ideas for how to run a glow engine!

I teach chemistry and physics ... trust me ethanol & methanol are completely different substances. "All alcohol", yes, chemically speaking, but a deadly combination.

When I was Lab Tech at the hospitals, we treated alcoholics. They would try to suck on the used isopropanol swabs we used to clean patient's arms before we drew blood. Yep, you guessed it, the alcoholics would get very sick. The only drinkable alcohol is ethanol. Period, the end. Elsewise sickness follows and blindness or death is typically close at hand if behavior is continued.