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Old 01-13-2011, 06:30 PM
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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!


Okay, they have Castor Oil here medicinal $13USD (equivalent) for 100 ml Ouch.... I bawked at that.
I searched ebay, in the US is cheap enough but all the places I asked say that you can't post intercontinental.
That's funny of course as all the health food shops do for castor oil!
Australia is quite expensive  for post.
Ebay has this from the UK
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-Litre-CASTOR...item2c58a93b73

Equates to around $38 (USD/Aud) delivered   and is cold pressed.

Interestingly enough they have Methanol here, found some at one of the cleaning shops but at equivalent of $40Aud/USD for 1 liter I kind of bawk at paying that!
The Metho (Methylated spirits) which isn't in stock by comparison was only about $7 a litre.

If both are almost the same for the alcohol, is there any difference in running either in a glow engine?