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Old 08-16-2010, 03:07 PM   #144 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by womprat View Post
This is the worst recipe for cheap moonshine I've ever read about.

Regarding removing trace water content from gasoline, anyone considered freezing? Cold gasoline would unfortunately pick up moisture out of the air, so one would need to take steps to avoid that. But putting your gas can in a freezer (-18 C) then transfering it to another container would possibly leave behind any moisture as ice inside the original container. Might work?

Doesn't gasoline pretty much always have some trace of water content anyway and it generally isn't a problem in most fuel systems?
I have not finished reading the pages yet but wanted to post this, freezing the gas/water or Eth/water will help remove the water as it will freeze first although if there is enough water mixed with the Ethanol both will freeze but the water will freeze first. That can help to have mostly ethanol.

Another way to remove the water from the ethanol is to get the equipment to distill. That will get you usable ethanol there are little glass balls (can't remember the name of them) that will determine what proof the ethanol.
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