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Magnum fuel? - 1/30/2005 3:36:15 AM   
WMB


 

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Status: offline 		Does anyone know how much oil is in their 30% heli fuel? What kind of oil is used?
Thanks, Mike
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RE: Magnum fuel? - 1/31/2005 3:22:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		coolpower has 23% and synthectic is all i know

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RE: Magnum fuel? - 3/18/2005 10:41:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I heard Magnum keeps the oil content secret (possibly because it varies between batches??) Anyone have any word on that???

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RE: Magnum fuel? - 3/31/2005 11:01:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't think the oil contents varies between batches since it may causes problems to those ordering large quantities such as club or some people ordering together because they use same fuel.
I've been using Magnum fuel #1, #2 and now with 30% Heli since 1998 without any problem with my YS engines. Buzz never tells me the Oil content, but he assured me that it has more than minimum requirement for YS.
I believe he also custom blend the fuel for some people. Not really sure.
I now use the fuel with my OS Heli engine also.
No idea of what kind of oil is in the fuel, but I always order with full synthetic oil.


Ihncheol Park

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RE: Magnum fuel? - 4/10/2005 4:07:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		I never cared for Magnum, price is cheap but you get what what you pay for. As for oil, he has the only fuel I have ever seen that when an ounce or two is burned in a tuna can, all the methanol and nitro burn off in the expected manner and then the flame turns yellow and the oil starts burning off untill it is all gone and a squeeky clean (dry, no oil) tuna can is all that remains. With the other brands I have done the same thing with, a lot of oil remains. The fire goes out when the methanol and nitro burn off, leaving the oil.
Is this a bad thing, the oil burning off? probably not too bad when you never have a uncontrolled lean run (like a heli crash at wide open, or a muffler pressure line coming off, etc...) , but when these things happen and the oil is actually part of the combustion, what kind of protection is there in your piston and sleeve? NONE.
Some guys around here still run Magnum because they like the price, these guys are the only ones having longevity problems in heli's, in 4-strokes, in about everything.

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