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Re: DIESEL FUEL ADDITIVE OPINION


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Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 06, 2007 at 03:24:39 from (216.208.58.176):

In Reply to: Re: DIESEL FUEL ADDITIVE OPINION posted by ScottyHOMEy on December 05, 2007 at 20:26:26:

Scotty: I used to do a lot of on farm blasting with dynamite, especially ditching dynamite. 40 years ago I could walk into one of several suppliers and buy dynamite and caps. I haven't bought any in over 30 years, and I'm betting I couldn't buy explosives any more.

The time I was questioned by the druggest, I had bought a gallon on Tues. for example. Two days later I needed methyl hydrate at a different location and it was quicker to stop by the drug store than go home. At that time the only user he had the bought methyl hydrate by the gallon was the local hospital. I assured him it would be just as valuable in my air brakes as someone's backrub.

The part that gets me about these additive threads. The automotive parts store additive business has got to be one of the biggest ripoffs known to mankind, yet man is addicted to this damn stuff. I can remember when I first started using methyl hydrate, diesel fuel or air brake additives were close to $10. per gallon. Methyl hydrate at the auto parts store was $7.50 per gallon plus you actully got more ingrediant to protect systems from frost with the methyl hydrate than from the additives. Here's the kicker, back then I was buying the same gallon of methyl hydrate from the drug store $2. per gallon. There is nothing in any of those commercial additives to prevent jelling or air brake freeze up other than Methyl Hydrate. I can never understand why folks are PROUD to spend 4 times the money to achive that. Modern day economics facinate this old bird.


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