G'day

How do I know glow fuel tastes terrible? I think I was trying to empty a tank by blowing in the breather and I blew too hard and was not quick enough in getting the tube out of my mouth and some blew back.

Back in my youth when fuel was 1 part castor oil and 3 parts methanol, I got a mouth full and it actually tasted OK. But nitro and synthetic oils have changed all that.

My mate (he was 14 and I was about 11) who got me into control line, used to routinely empty his tanks by sucking the fuel into his mouth and spitting it out! I was never that game.

The worst example of "fuel drinking" that I have seen was an English diamond driller who primed the fuel pump on a Lister diesel by sucking diesel into his mouth with a plastic tube on the pump breather. Not once, but several times! Yuck.

Cheers

Mike in Oz