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VK2TV > CARS 07.07.08 09:25l 39 Lines 1262 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: ZR2ACJ > fuel save devices
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To : CARS@WW
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# On : 7/7/2008 17:06:40
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>From: KB2VXA@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
>To : CARS@WW
>
>Hi Andy and all,
>
>There's something very wrong with this picture so a short course in
>chemestry may be in order. There is a big difference between the liquid
>petroleum naptha and the solid napthaline. The former is otherwise known
>as benzine and is used as an industrial solvent, the latter being
>commonly known as camphor and is a distilate of coal tar. Naptha
>evaporates unpredictably and uncontrolably in such an environment so the
>fuel-air mixture would be rich one minute and lean the next, then
>napthalene sublimates far too slowly to have any effect at all other than
>to make the carb smell nice. Don't worry about the moths, they won't get
>past the air cleaner.
>
>One correction, since napthaline sublimates directly from solid to gas
>there is no such thing as "liquid napthaline" which is why you don't get
>wet and stained clothes when you put moth balls in the pockets.
>
>73 de Warren
You lurking about Indy?
Tell us about the Napthalene you used to move from Sydney to Newcastle by
the tanker load.
Cheers ... Ray vk2tv
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