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Old 03-27-2003, 11:13 AM
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Have you ever burned sugar? It gets goey, turns to caramel, then cruncky black carbon crud. I have never seen an engine that tried to burn it, and I don't want to. It is soluable in aqueous solutions, if your gas has any ethanol or methanol in it, it may dissolve pretty well (speculation).
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In a fit of 16 year old genius, I looked down through the carb while cranking it to see if fuel was flowing, and it was. Flowing straight up in a vapor cloud, around my head, on fire.
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