Nitromethane from RC Car Fuel?

[Richard L]

Originally Posted by hotrod

Richard :

Not at the moment, the simple solution would likely be to drop the water content slightly. Just out of curiosity have you double checked to be sure the bolus that is settling out is the nitro rather than the water ?? As I recall nitro is supposed to be infinitely soluable with methanol just as methanol is infinitely soluble with water. Seems at least possible that some water is coming out of solution rather than the nitro.

A long eye dropper to suck it up and test it for flamability comes to mind.

The other option would be to make a more complex system (not my prefered choice), one injection jet supplied with methanol/nitro and another with water methanol. If you controlled both with independent HSV's it would make some interesting combinations possible, but I'm not a fan of doing things the hard way unless absolutely necessary. You would also need a more advanced / flexible controller than I think most folks can afford.

Larry

I have to assume that it was nitro because it was heavier than water, I could be wrong. I first mixed the nitro with methanol, M60/N40 - perfect mix. I then add water the same amount of water to the mix.

As more water was poured in, little droplet of oily residue began to appear and eventually it settled at the bottom (as seen). I will pipette it out and test it for flammability or check its density - I have no other means of confirmation.

Here is some more pictures M50N50 and followed by W50/M25/N25 (see the smal residue on the bottom)