Quick question... when you have a gas can where the gas & ethanol has separated (or something other than water has accumulated on the bottom of the tank) is there any problem running it in your lawnmower ? I'm thinking about putting it in a monster size glass pickle jar to siphon out the upper layer. Thoughts ?
The big problem with this is that the mix is usually stable until it has absorbed an amount of water that allows "phase separation". E-10 can hold about 4 tablespoons of water per gallon before it starts to separate. Then the water is more concentrated in the ethanol part. So your gas has more than this amount of water in it!
This separation has an ethanol/water mix that burns poorly, if at all, and is hard on dang near anything it touches in the fuel system. Plus, the ethanol is used as the octane booster for the remaining gasoline and the layer of gas is of very poor quality.
So, as people smarter than I have pointed out, ethanol is essentially a fuel contaminant.
chuckles wrote: So, as people smarter than I have pointed out, ethanol is essentially a fuel contaminant.
Yes, but it makes a convenient way for manufacturers of the contaminant to move lots of their product and get a nice price for it.
Effective but expensive:
siphon off the obvious watery-ethanol-ish stuff, then pass the remaining watery gasoline through a chamois skin that you'll never use again for car washing. Presto, the water is gone.
cheap:
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