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Subject:Re: acetone // Art Bell
From:Jim Felder
Date:Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:35:44 -0500

Park your vanagon in a pyramid, it will get younger and won't ever leak.

Jim

On Oct 6, 2005, at 3:41 PM, rpc wrote:

> As soon as acetone was mentioned on the list I thought it was in
> response to a guest on the Art Bell radio show last week. Guest made
> all sorts of claims about the conspiracy to keep the driving public
> from using acetone. I don't really listen to this show---just happens
> to be on before I go to sleep.
> While I wont be running any acetone in my vanagon (173,550 miles), I
> am keenly interested in getting some "energized water" for my coolant
> mix. I remember hearing about it on same show/ different date. I
> figure this "power water" could restore 100K miles to my engine.
>
> Chris // 90 MV
>>
>> On 6-Oct-05, at 8:48 AM, Don Williams wrote:
>>
>> Acetone is an organic solvent and has properties that are very
>> different
>> than gasoline. I wouldn't want to even ride in a vehicle whose fuel
>> lines
>> have been exposed to acetone----you just can't know what the effect of
>> small amounts of acetone in gasoline might have on those lines. I'm
>> already pissed off about the additive changes that have been made to
>> gasoline, and the extent to which the driving populace is a guinea pig
>> for
>> the trial of these materials.
>> Engine fires are not fun events and it seems you should do everything
>> possible to prevent one. That should include not experimenting with
>> solvents on fuel lines.
>> Don
>>
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