Originally Posted by
Sport_Pilot
People have used Colemans in their lighters. A lot of lighter fluid though.
Back to Fox engines. We used lighter fluid to prime our Fox 35s for winter combat CL flying in the early fifties. Homemade 0 percent fuel, no electric starters then and wimpy ignitor batteries too. A backfire or not getting the frozen fingers out of the prop's way really hurt. We didn't use any gloves.