Okay so while I'm recovery from the fumes I'll post this up real quick.
Let me tell you, the fumes from MMO are real real bad for the human body. My fume hood failed midway through the burn
Anyways, my first post was about the solubility of MMO in gas. Which showed good results as the MMO didn't seem to settle out of standard 87 pump gas.
I decided to burn some pure MMO (25ml's worth) to see if I could get some pH readings from the ash. I did pure MMO without gas to simulate ash buildup in a vehicle that's been running it for a long long long and long time. Well water is a byproduct of combustion thus if any acid is gonna form water is going to be a big factor.
Simple, I have a ceramic bowl that has MMO and a small watch glass to collect some ash on. I then take the ash and submerge in water and mix to see if the ash upon mixing with water produces any acidic byproducts. Surprisingly the MMO did not light with an ordinary match. I had to use the Bunsen burner on the counter top to get it going.
MMO has a nice slow rich burn, the volatile stuff burned off first and the oil base started to concentrate on the bottom. I made sure to burn it all, by applying a Bunsen sideways to burn off the oil base as well.
I put the watch glass in a beaker with 200ml water that I had pH'd earlier to be pH 7. Then I mixed by hand for roughly 1 hour.
To my surprise the ash and water combo stayed at the exact same pH no visible change on the stick. That's good news, that means the by products of the MMO in an engine don't produce acidic by products.
I decided to go further and take a neutral filter paper (I pH'd it in water earlier to make sure it was a pH of 7) and wipe the inside of the bowl that the MMO was burning in; since there was a good amount of black residue there.
Again to my surprise the pH was still a 7 disregarding some oily residue that I missed.
Well MMO gets my thumbs up and I'll probably continue using it since it's so readily available in my area. It doesn't readily separate from pump gas and it doesn't seem to produce acidic byproducts.
Next I will try some of the Lucas stuff after my small stash of MMO runs out. I believe NAPA sells the Lucas additive and there is one not to far from me.
Hope you enjoyed looking!
Let me tell you, the fumes from MMO are real real bad for the human body. My fume hood failed midway through the burn
Anyways, my first post was about the solubility of MMO in gas. Which showed good results as the MMO didn't seem to settle out of standard 87 pump gas.
I decided to burn some pure MMO (25ml's worth) to see if I could get some pH readings from the ash. I did pure MMO without gas to simulate ash buildup in a vehicle that's been running it for a long long long and long time. Well water is a byproduct of combustion thus if any acid is gonna form water is going to be a big factor.
Simple, I have a ceramic bowl that has MMO and a small watch glass to collect some ash on. I then take the ash and submerge in water and mix to see if the ash upon mixing with water produces any acidic byproducts. Surprisingly the MMO did not light with an ordinary match. I had to use the Bunsen burner on the counter top to get it going.
MMO has a nice slow rich burn, the volatile stuff burned off first and the oil base started to concentrate on the bottom. I made sure to burn it all, by applying a Bunsen sideways to burn off the oil base as well.
I put the watch glass in a beaker with 200ml water that I had pH'd earlier to be pH 7. Then I mixed by hand for roughly 1 hour.
To my surprise the ash and water combo stayed at the exact same pH no visible change on the stick. That's good news, that means the by products of the MMO in an engine don't produce acidic by products.
I decided to go further and take a neutral filter paper (I pH'd it in water earlier to make sure it was a pH of 7) and wipe the inside of the bowl that the MMO was burning in; since there was a good amount of black residue there.
Again to my surprise the pH was still a 7 disregarding some oily residue that I missed.
Well MMO gets my thumbs up and I'll probably continue using it since it's so readily available in my area. It doesn't readily separate from pump gas and it doesn't seem to produce acidic byproducts.
Next I will try some of the Lucas stuff after my small stash of MMO runs out. I believe NAPA sells the Lucas additive and there is one not to far from me.
Hope you enjoyed looking!