can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
01-03-2004, 11:47 PM
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RE: can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
regular gas and 2-stroke oil is fine. It's the same as kind of motor that's in your chainsaw or weedeater. Mix the fuel the same as you would them. I use 32 to 1, but that's me, I know some people like to go leaner on the oil. For the initial start-up 32:1 should be fine. Watch the heat and don't over rev it. If you have a manual read it.
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RE: can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
NO, YOU CAN'T!
Your engine is designed for glow fuel, with is a mixture of alcohol and lubricants. It won't run on gasoline.
There are hobby engines designed for gasoline, but they are larger and more expensive.
Your engine is designed for glow fuel, with is a mixture of alcohol and lubricants. It won't run on gasoline.
There are hobby engines designed for gasoline, but they are larger and more expensive.
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RE: can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
sorry for the miss directment, I mistook the . 42 tt for 42 cc. Getting to late I guess. It wouldn't of hurt anything. It just wouldn't run. MORE PEOPLE SPEAKING UP SAVE CUSSING
This is only the second time I've be wrong. lol
This is only the second time I've be wrong. lol
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RE: can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
Going back a while i sacrificed an old OS20 to try fuels out, basicaly the Methanol based fuels with various amounts of oil & nitro work best, i also got it to run on acetone & oil, petrol & oil, 2K paint solvent and oil, the engine ran but only JUST, i also tried a heap of other combinations but these are the ones that actualy ran.
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RE: can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
NO! NO! NO! Use a glow fuel for 2 stroke glow engines,you really need to find a flying field and get some advice and help.[:-]
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RE: can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
Gasoline is used in a spark ignition engine. Glow engines run on a glow plug. With this said, gasoline will not work in a glow engine. If you modify a glow engine with a electronic spark ignition, it will run. You will need to modify the carb to allow less fuel, but it is possible.
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can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
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RE: can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
Beginner !:
That engine is made to run on glow fuel. The glow plug has platinum in the element. The platinum is a catalyst for the methanol that causes it to burn. You can convert such an engine to gasoline. You need to add a spark ignition to the engine to do so. However the cost of the perts to do so would probably be 3 or more times what the engine cost initially. And would require a lot of modification.
If you just want to run the engine for demonstrations you should use glow fuel. If you want to use gasoline I suggest you look in the classifieds here and buy a used gas engine for your perposes.
Mark Shuman
That engine is made to run on glow fuel. The glow plug has platinum in the element. The platinum is a catalyst for the methanol that causes it to burn. You can convert such an engine to gasoline. You need to add a spark ignition to the engine to do so. However the cost of the perts to do so would probably be 3 or more times what the engine cost initially. And would require a lot of modification.
If you just want to run the engine for demonstrations you should use glow fuel. If you want to use gasoline I suggest you look in the classifieds here and buy a used gas engine for your perposes.
Mark Shuman
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RE: can you use regular car gas mixed with 2 cycle engine oil?
Never use gasoline with a glow plug. Gasoline is much more volatile than glow fuel. With the glow plug battery attached and a little too much gasoline it could get ugly.
