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Fuel grade Methanol?
Does anyone here use fuel grade MeOH or Nitromethane?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Gallon-Bucket-of-Methanol-For-Prod...
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I am sure methanol is one of those things you would want to buy locally since it is very easy to get. Shipping would be outragious because it is a
fuel (hazmat) and 5 gallons is very heavy.
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i would say get it locally, but you could try distilling off acetone from vinegar + CaCO3 (160*C) if you wanna try to make your own..
or drydestilling wood
tho the CaCO3 you get from calcium acetate can be re-reacted with vinegar to again yield calcium acetate
in other words how to make vinegar into very flammable liquid (:
some countries are insanely and outrageously restrictive with methanol tho.. its insane.. hope you dont live a such place
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Yeah I agree with chemcam and Antiswat, this is something that you can easily find in any mid-sized city. They use meoh as racing fuel and the like,
so look around locally for stores that might cater to that.
This might get you started: http://torcoracefuel.net/dealers.html
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I bought 7 gallons about a week ago. It was from a performance shop in town. I asked what other uses people buy it for other than racing, he said
biodiesel and cleaning fluids for tools or something. It was around $4.50 a gallon.
[Edited on 22-4-2013 by Morgan]
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Thanks guys. The facility is a couple minutes from my place. Question was, is "fuel grade" acceptable for lab use?
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I came across this tidbit.
http://books.google.com/books?id=rPBhvch_zG0C&pg=PA111&a...
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Quote: Originally posted by declined  | | Thanks guys. The facility is a couple minutes from my place. Question was, is "fuel grade" acceptable for lab use? |
All your original question asked was if any of us used methanol and posted a link to buy. But anyway, Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It really depends
what exactly you will be using it for. You could distill it but I'm sure there will still be some additives in it with too close of a BP to remove
unless fractional setup is used.
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I asked for a COA on the "fuel grade" MeOH, which costs $38/5-gallons and I got 99.99%. I would say this is good to go?
http://www.dudadiesel.com/msds/methanolCOA.pdf
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You should probably tell us what you're using it for if you want an actual answer. But yes, if it's 99,9% methanol, you'll be fine.
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