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Old 03-21-2004 | 08:45 PM
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Find the local "VP Fuels" distributor. (the closest to me is just outside San Antonio)

Specify the mix ratios you want, and even the color you want.

You'll have to buy a minimum of 15 gallons... and it will come in a drum. ( a large can... 15, 35or 55 gallon drum sizes. They mix it by the drum.)

If you are flying enough to spend $130 in fuel in 2 months, its worth making the trip to San Antonio to pick up two 15 gallon drums. (which would be about 6 month's worth of fuel for you.) 30 gallons is about the maximum I would put in a car trunk.

The drums are VERY well sealed. so spilling and fumes are not a problem. If the drums are padded into place so they can't roll around then it would take a collision that would split your gasoline tank of the car to split the drums open.

Its been a couple of years... they charged me $110 for a 15 gallon drum of 10% nitro fuel. I didn't fly enough and by the time I got to the last 3 gallons, the fuel had absorbed substantial moisture. (took me over 11 months to get that far down in the drum.) If it wasn't so long a trip, or if I was burning fuel faster, I would do it again.

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It is BEST to transfer all the fuel out of the drum into 1 gallon cans in one shot. The fewer times you open the drum the less air you let into the drum and the less moisture the fuel will absorb. (that would have saved me from having 3 gallons of poor quality fuel. Hindsight is 20-20)