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Originally Posted by jedi_sol
Sorry for my ignorance on the subject, but how did you come up with the idea to use waste solvent as a fuel additive?
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Kinda from my job from doing outside auto body paint sales. I call on 40 different customers. About 25 of them have solvent recyclers, and are always complaining about the large amounts of solvent that occurs over time. Everywhere I go there are gallons and gallons of the waste solvent in their shops stacking up. Eventually they will have a local waste solvent company pick up their extra waste solvent and dispose of it by burning it in a incinerator, but this cost them a pretty penny.
I kinda feel bad, I sell them the paint, cleaning solvent etc. and then take the waste for free.
So then I decided to do some experimenting with my trusty lawn mower and started running low amounts of solvent while watching closely the cylinder head temps and exhaust temps and also pulled apart the carb to make sure the Toluene,Acetone,Naptha wasn't eating the gaskets. Thats when I noticed the engine needed the solvent to be warmer to burn correctly. After seeing that it would burn decent I started building my waste solvent fuel system on my car and so far everything is working awesome!!!