Killing ourselves out of stupidity, however, is something that they Do care about.
New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity.

Ohhh, geeze, don't Make me drag this to the Tall Table.

I'd like to see a video of a diesel 4x4 running on gasoline!  

Some of the antique car people in NZ tried the Diesel in small quantities to lower the octane, because of an idea that modern fuels combust faster in modern high compression engines. Some people claimed that a slower burning fuel was more suited to compression ratios of under 5.5 or 6 to 1 which was the case with most 1920's vehicles and that the diesel, about a US quart per tankful would do this. I'm no engineer physicist, or combustion engineer, so the whole thing could be BS . I don't really know.

jcstokes wrote on 03/21/16 at 23:20:14:


That makes sense. Back then, the fuel was so bad, they had to use extremely low compression ratios (compared to today; my Mazda6 runs 13:1). Modern fuels are overkill for those older engines.

Cox glo fuel is methanol (alcohol), 15-30% nitromethane and 20%castor (or synthetic if you can't get castor) oil. They will run on straight glo fuel but they prefer loads of nitro. The air/fuel mix is ignited by the glow plug in the cylinder head which is a kind of hot wire heated initially by a battery then kept hot in a catalytic reaction with the methanol. Gasoline model engines need a spark plug.
No commercially available model engines run on diesel. Diesel model engines run on ether and oil with some scary carcinogens added for racing. They use a simple carb for induction, not the injector you need to atomise diesel fuel. So, they're not really diesels but they are compression ignition engines.
They all carry oil (castor or synthetic) blended with the fuel. Even the 4 strokes use premix.
I understand some of the US pulse jet flyers use Heet (the antifreeze stuff) as fuel. we don't get that here so it's methanol or gasoline for us. Gas for me, methanol is too $$$. Maybe the minibike would've rocked out with a bottle of Heet in it.

Gas in the tank will prevent corrosion!  

It only corrodes when it's less than full. The gas doesn't eat away at the tank. It's the air above the gas that causes oxidation.

I used Marvel Mystery oil in the gas on my old flathead bikes, they seemed to like it. I never had valve problems with unleaded gas in them.

Yeah too small for a piston ring. They have a tapered bore instead so as the piston gets higher up the bore it gets tighter and seals better. Pretty crude but gets it done.