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Old 08-10-2005 | 09:36 PM
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Ed Smith
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Default RE: Is POWERMASTER cheating?

Olstoney,

I have to admit I am beginning to lose faith.

I spent an hour or so gathering some facts and figures. These may help to make it easier to check.

The fuel I use is 15% nitro, 18% total oil.

I weighed a few empty cans, they were all within an ounce of each other at about 14 ozs.

I accurately measured a full gallon by volume. With the can it weighs 8lb 1.2ozs. A second weighed 8lb 0.6ozs. That is close enough for me.

1oz weight of fuel is 1.12 fluid ozs. So for every ounce weight less than say 8lb multiply that figure by 1.12 and the result will be the fluid oz. shortage.

My worst example, a sealed can, weighed 7lb. 6.6ozs. That is 9.4oz wt short x 1.12 = 10.52 fluid ozs. That is unacceptable.

As I said before these may have been shipped before the problem was known about. I intend to purchase some more in a weeks time. I will measure this shipment. I will not let this go.

Ed S