Methanol affect on aluminium

[BennettRacing]

In relation to other question, how fast acting is methanol on aluminium?

IE how fast will in affect it?

[flying toilet]

Are you refering to rusting and scoring of the bores?

[BennettRacing]

flying toilet said:

Are you refering to rusting and scoring of the bores?

Nah just in a fuel tank, having a nightmare trying to get our tank anodized...

[flying toilet]

Ah ok.

Dad got a load of stuff done for the Dragster at a place in Milton Keynes. I will ask him tonight what it is called.

It is in Blakelands in Milton Keynes but the name escapes me at the moment.

[BennettRacing]

flying toilet said:

Ah ok.

Dad got a load of stuff done for the Dragster at a place in Milton Keynes. I will ask him tonight what it is called.

It is in Blakelands in Milton Keynes but the name escapes me at the moment.

That would be good thanks, our local place is not able to do it as he said he doesnt have the equipment to do both outside and inside...

[Time Machine]

There was a place in Kent which did our velocity stacks, my brother might know where it was.

[trackm3]

Try these guys www.staranodising.co.uk, why dont you powder coat it ?

[trackm3]

try these guys www.staranodising.co.uk

[BennettRacing]

Were painting the outside anyway, inside has to be anodized as methanol attacks aluminium.

Thanks for the link though :-)

Edited by BennettRacing on Wednesday 25th April 11:02

Edited by BennettRacing on Wednesday 25th April 11:35

[MotorPsycho]

star anodising are the guys we used to do our stacks, aroundd Belvedere/Erith area

[nitrohaulic]

I do know that when I got my flying toilet alcohol dragster going in 2000, I used a fitting that was already on one end of a hose in my return line, just cutting to proper length and putting my own on the other end. Not long after I started seeing chalk in my screen, so I took everything apart to find the culprit. Sure enough, someone had scratched the anodizing when they assembled that one. It was "fast acting" enough on that one that it would have taken itself apart very soon had I not done it first.

Since you're asking about an entire tank, which I know nothing about, I bet someone on classicfunnycarboard might be able to tell you if they've had trouble with it, since many there are from the "era." Makes me wonder if having a nitro/methanol percentage could ever damage my own polished tank.

Edited by nitrohaulic on Thursday 26th April 18:37