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Old 09-20-09, 06:55 PM
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making your own 50/50 mix

no matter how much i read, nothing is ever mentioned about making your own 50/50 mix.

unfortunatly here in ga, we dont get very much frost in winter time so the method of buying washer fluid didnt work at all for me. weird.

i heard about mobile1 fluid being used, but what about straight up mixing this yourself?

well i went over to lowes and got me some ethanol or whatever they sell in the pain department. comes in an orange and blue can or a red and blue can.

i mixed it exactly with equal parts water, but the damn mixture turned milky white and started to get hot.

10 wasted as i threw it away. any other advice? windex?
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u got the paint thinner stuff?
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i dont know what it was, but it was in a small container that was maybee 1 liter, and it cost 10 bucks. it was called methyl something. it was sold at lowes.
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thats funny.
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thats funny.
how so?
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Does anyone local to you sell straight methanol? thats the cheapest way. Another option is Heet in the yellow bottle. It's 97-98% methanol.

Mixing 50/50 by volume is not the correct way. 50/50 by volume is more like 30/70. The proper way is to mix it by weight.
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Considering you are injecting based on volume... you would want to mix based on volume.

So if you had 50/50 by weight... you would really be injecting 62% methanol/38% water by volume. (approx)
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I would think if AL has washer fluid with meth in it then ATL would also. Might want to check Advanced Auto for their blue stuff, 35% meth.
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Originally Posted by SirCygnus
how so?
idk i just thought it was funny. the stuff at home deopt isn't the same stuff. sounds like something i would do. I was going to menton the Heet option.
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i just found out what makes it withish is oil any oil at all will make it turn milky white
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Originally Posted by Dudemaaanownsanrx7
Does anyone local to you sell straight methanol? thats the cheapest way. Another option is Heet in the yellow bottle. It's 97-98% methanol.

Mixing 50/50 by volume is not the correct way. 50/50 by volume is more like 30/70. The proper way is to mix it by weight.
I think my calculation was off. I keep getting confused when trying to calculate it, but i think 50/50 by volume is 46/54 meth/water, which isn't that far off. My math could be wrong again though.

I found this list for a 4 quart container or approximately 3.8L someone should come up with a calculator where you enter the size container and the desired mixture % and it tells you the correct amount of water and meth

47% - 2.5 liters of alcohol

41% - 2.25 l of alcohol

37% - 2.0 l of alcohol

35% - 1.9 l of alcohol

33% - 1.75 l of alcohol

30% - 1.625 l of alcohol

27% - 1.5 l 0f alcohol
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I bought 2 gallons of methanol @ like 6 bucks a gallon, then 2 gallons of DI water...poured both into a gas canister. Done. Perfect 50/50 doesn't matter...meth and water have their own good qualities.. I was gonna go pure water, but for some reason bought some meth for the hell of it.
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Originally Posted by SmogSUX
I bought 2 gallons of methanol @ like 6 bucks a gallon, then 2 gallons of DI water...poured both into a gas canister. Done. Perfect 50/50 doesn't matter...meth and water have their own good qualities.. I was gonna go pure water, but for some reason bought some meth for the hell of it.
havent you read this thread at all?
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Yes...why?
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I think he misunderstood and thought that you were trying and succeeded in making a perfect 50/50 mixture. instead of the perfect 50/50 ratio not being important to you. (as you meant it) You have to read it just right otherwise it looks like you're saying you made the perfect 50/50 mixture.
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You're correct, I am saying perfect 50/50 doesn't matter, which I don't have.
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