Shelf life of avgas
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if you have a mate or yourself with oil central heating stick it in the bottom of the tank and fill it up with heating oil and you will be grand.
Same goes with Jet A as well.
You might clog up the burners though with the lead but never heard of anyone having any problems.
On a note i killed the CAT on my car with avgas and fished all the bits out with a coat hangar. Passed the next 3 emissions test during the MOT only issue was if it didn't start first go it flooded and you had to pull the fuse on the fuel pump to get it going which wasnt an issue to be honest until an auld granny collapsed in tesco car park when she back fired like an engineer on sprouts.
Same goes with Jet A as well.
You might clog up the burners though with the lead but never heard of anyone having any problems.
On a note i killed the CAT on my car with avgas and fished all the bits out with a coat hangar. Passed the next 3 emissions test during the MOT only issue was if it didn't start first go it flooded and you had to pull the fuse on the fuel pump to get it going which wasnt an issue to be honest until an auld granny collapsed in tesco car park when she back fired like an engineer on sprouts.
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I would NOT put it in the central htg system! CH boilers are expecting the low volatility of a heptane ring not the bang power of an octane one.
MJ: JetA-1 and htg paraffin come out of the refinery as DPK - dual purpose kero, as it can go to the airport or into a htg system.
Putting Avgas into a burner unit can have disasterous effects. As villagers found out when the "kero" they thought they had "liberated" from a trans-sub-Saharan pipeline was actually Avgas. Fifty eight dead and 32 rondavels razed to the ground. Nampula Province 1992/3.
MJ: JetA-1 and htg paraffin come out of the refinery as DPK - dual purpose kero, as it can go to the airport or into a htg system.
Putting Avgas into a burner unit can have disasterous effects. As villagers found out when the "kero" they thought they had "liberated" from a trans-sub-Saharan pipeline was actually Avgas. Fifty eight dead and 32 rondavels razed to the ground. Nampula Province 1992/3.
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Hence I said and fill it up.
Been using petrol/pariffin mixes for years to get rid of the bloody stuff. It costs more per litre to get shot of it than it does to buy it in the first place. Apart for lead at high doses the burners are fine especially the old ****e which have been used for years and never replaced in scotland.
Raw petrol will go with a bang paraffin/petrol mix is only going to improve your freezing point.
Been using petrol/pariffin mixes for years to get rid of the bloody stuff. It costs more per litre to get shot of it than it does to buy it in the first place. Apart for lead at high doses the burners are fine especially the old ****e which have been used for years and never replaced in scotland.
Raw petrol will go with a bang paraffin/petrol mix is only going to improve your freezing point.
The '76 Renault 5 loved avgas. As for burning valves, there were so many other bits giving way that it would not have mattered. In any case the engine made to to 100K miles before the paper cylinder gaskets started admitting coolant into the oil system
