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Ariel Badger
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PostPosted: 22:51 - 02 Jul 2007    Post subject: I need to buy some dope Reply with quote
It seems my my Hillclimber project is a dope burner due to the 14-1 piston and huge main jet and inlet valve, Where do I but Methanol?
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PostPosted: 22:55 - 02 Jul 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Can't help with the Dope, but are you considering the Baitings Dam hill-climb anytime? If you do, let me know as its just up the road from me...
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PostPosted: 23:09 - 02 Jul 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Is there a speedway club near you? Pretty sure most of the Jawa singles are running methanol so they might be able to help.

I always thought dope was ethanol/wood alcohol though? Will you be able to get the jets big enough to run pure methanol? I've seen a TriBSA that ran on dope and they'd just removed the jets entirely.

A mate who does drag racing gets 160 octane race fuel (not nitro, just very high octane) shipped over from the states in cans, I can ask him who from if you like.

I think you can get 110 octane aviation fuel (6*? ), might be worth asking at a local aero club?
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PostPosted: 00:18 - 03 Jul 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Monster trucks run on methanol and a guy owns one called thunderfoot about 3 miles away from me , ill pop up to see him and ask were he gets it for you.

£16 for 25 litres : Link

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PostPosted: 00:19 - 03 Jul 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh, erm seems you can get it on ebay. Confused

https://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=methanol
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Ariel Badger
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PostPosted: 17:50 - 03 Jul 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks Jamie.
It occured to me today that as I am in a school and as we have a science faculty I should have a word with them.
They can order it for me I just pay them and as we are are a school no VAT.
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PostPosted: 21:56 - 03 Jul 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
1930 Ariel wrote:
Thanks Jamie.
It occured to me today that as I am in a school and as we have a science faculty I should have a word with them.
They can order it for me I just pay them and as we are are a school no VAT.


I'd watch it. We have a carbouy of reagent grade methanol at work for washing laboratory glassware. It's VAT and duty exempt. Believe it or not, we were actually contacted by HM Customs and Excise about 12 months after buying it to find out what we were using it for. I felt like telling them it went down ok with coke and a twist at the staff party but then realised that they undoubtedly have absolutely no sense of humour.

That's just one carbouy which I suspect would get a trials-trim Ariel 500 single about a mile or so. Those sort of quantities might take a bit of explaining.
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PostPosted: 18:53 - 04 Jul 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
your local model shop will have it as we use methanol as fuel in models

hth steve
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