Does 'Project Farm' live by me???

[upupandaway]

If you have seen some of his experiments you know what I am talking about.

I just found a mower with a Briggs Quantum engine. It ran bad. Taking a wiff of the tank, I noticed the owner used paint thinner as gas.
Dumped it and added gas and it runs fine.

 

[bertsmobile1]

During the energy crisis back in the 70's petrol was abolished an replaced with "fuel"
Fuel is a mix of volatile hydrocarbons one of which is toluene
Toluene is the main solvent in paint thinners and has a boiling point around 110 C
Benzene ( which is real petrol ) has a boiling point around 80 C
So when left sitting around, the benzene will evaporate faster than the toluene thus the fuel starts to smell like paint stripper .
Paint stripper is basically caustic soda dissolved in toluene

 

[slomo]

It was all turpentine back in the day LOL.