Mitch, I believe that white gas is unleaded without all the additives. You could use a gallon in your newer car engine that uses unleaded without ill effect, except to your pocket book. It would get sort of expensive to fill your tank with Coleman, though at the current pump price, it would not hurt as much as it use to. This is still an easy method of disposal though! White gas is just unleaded without any additives. It is the additives that form a residue as the fuel out gasses from setting around. Without the additives the gas would have to totally evaporate in order to find much residue. Probably the amount of residue would have to build up from allowing a number of tanks to evaporate before the residue would be noticeable. That would probably be why Coleman still recommends using their fuel in their stove. The worse thing though would be to go on your trip, and for the price of a few gallons of gas have a stove get stubborn on you and not want to work. Also if you are flying to your destination, I don't think you want to be carrying gas on the airplane, something about homeland defense. Buy it there, at the local Wal-Mart and get the Coleman original. If worse comes to worse, you can use unleaded auto fuel though there are other additives that will affect the odor of the flame, and may give off noxious exhaust! Tinkerntom Mitch, I can not trace down that old wives tale. From personal experience, I believe it is bogus. In fact, just last night I ran a stove full of white gas that had been sitting in my garage for 4 years! It may have been true in the bad old days of poorly refined gasoline, but it is not true for Coleman fuel, out here in Astoria. YMMV. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mitchell McKinnon" <mckinnon_at_iinet.com> >I know gas goes bad (or so says my lawn mower). What about white gas > stove fuel (ye old Coleman fuel)? I've got at least half a gallon of > two year old fuel (maybe three) that's been sealed in 1 liter fuel > bottles in my garage since it was purchased. I'm off for a week of > remote travel where new fuel (and new stoves) won't be available. The > safe thing would be to get new fuel, but what does one do with the old > stuff? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Apr 26 2005 - 17:27:34 PDT
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