Amazing new fuel additive!

[steingar]

I bogarted this ad from Aicraft Spruce from the Red board, because it's just too much fun!

 

[Gary]

I bogarted this ad from Aicraft Spruce from the Red board, because it's just too much fun!

Snake oil until some real data develops. No idea of what's in it, can't find a MSDS.

Gary

 

[steingar]

Snake oil until some real data develops. No idea of what's in it, can't find a MSDS.

Gary

Oh come on. It has nanotechnology!

 

[fgcason]

Is that the same stuff that's at the gas stations now as a push the button $9.99 fuel additive with magical powers?

 

[Gary]

Oh come on. It has nanotechnology!

So does talcum powder.

Gary

 

[Dan Thomas]

Bogus. There are contradictory statements in that ad. Today's gasolines are refined with long hydrocarbon chains to control the fuel burn rate and therefore detonation; the refineries had to develop such processes to deal with the removal of tetraethyl lead. If this stuff breaks down long hydrocarbon chains, it lowers octane rating; yet they claim it eliminates spark knock and detonation.

Snake oil, I think. If this was really a new, worthwhile advance I think we'd have heard of it before now. Right?

Dan

 

[Skylane81E]

So does talcum powder.

Gary

I'm gonna go dump a bottle in my tank now!

 

[airguy]

Oh come on. It has nanotechnology!

Yes, but does it have electrolytes?

 

[westslopeco]

Yes, but does it have electrolytes?

Electrolytes, it's what an engine needs!

 

[Geico266]

I burn mogas and save $2.20 per gallon. Then I run LOP and save another 3 gallons per hour. Heck, by the time I add this stuff I will be down to burning 3 GPH!

 

[fgcason]

I'm gonna go dump a bottle in my tank now!

A bottle of the magical stuff? Or a bottle of talcum powder?
And will you be able to tell the difference between the two?

 

[dmccormack]

Come on -- MMO has been on the market and been a proven performer for years...

 

[Skylane81E]

A bottle of the magical stuff? Or a bottle of talcum powder?
And will you be able to tell the difference between the two?

Does it matter

 

[DavidWhite]

If its got what plants crave, it must have what engines crave too. Electrolytes.

 

[Steve Foley]

A Thneed's a fine thing that all people need.

 

[Dan Thomas]

I burn mogas and save $2.20 per gallon. Then I run LOP and save another 3 gallons per hour. Heck, by the time I add this stuff I will be down to burning 3 GPH!

If it gets any better than that your tank will fill itself and overflow in flight instead of running dry.

Dan

 

[poadeleted21]

Who's going to be the first do an IMC flight. Do the math with the bare legal minimum reserves then put in 26% less because you added this stuff? HEY! There's a lawsuit.

 

[PilotAlan]

Oh come on. It has nanotechnology!

It doesn't have "nanotechnology", it has "NANO technology".
That's very different, and apparently much more impressive.

 

[DaleB]

It doesn't have "nanotechnology", it has "NANO technology".
That's very different, and apparently much more impressive.

Yeah, the only way to have LESS technology is to have PICO technology.

OK, I guess you could have even less, but then it gets really hard. It's almost like having no technology at all.

It still amazes me that there are people who fall for this kind of stuff. My wife tells me it really shouldn't, but it does.

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

The amazing thing about this is that they will probably sell a metric buttload of the stuff...

 

[studiomusic]

NANU Technology?

 

[mikea]

I'll stick with turning water into MOTA fuel (which amazingly is just like 100LL AvGas.)