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Old 11-15-2008, 09:30 PM
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Basically, the answer is no. The reason being that the larger, made for gasoline engines have roller bearings on the crank/rod and rod/piston interface. They can therefore handle much lower oil percentage fuel mixes than the bushed rod glow engines. Because of this, the normal Gas/Glow fuel mixture with an overall oil percentage of only around 3% would not be good for the bushed rod glow engines, which are usually rated to run on oil mixtures of from 16 to 20 percent more or less.

That is not to say all is lost. There have been some people experimenting with Gas/Glow mixes in glow engines here in the forum but with more oil content. Do a search and some threads should pop up with more info. The only other caveat would be to watch for overheating. A tightly cowled glow engine running on a gasoline type mix could overheat unless proper cooling air ducting was achieved. The gasoline in the mix burns hotter and does not have the inherent cooling effects of methanol.

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