Hi Ya,
this sounds silly but I need to ask. A mate of mine works at a spray painting business they have a heap of waste gun wash with a tiny amount of paint that they pay to get recyclyed. If i filtered this could i cocktail it with petrol and run the standard A12 on? or would it be too risky etc. My idea was to get an old Briggs and straton 4 stroke mower motor, stand back and see if it runs as a test.
Is there an easy way to find if it would work with octane etc... or should i forget it. I have also heard that it might be corrosive for the engine... not sure how to find this out too.
The main reason it crossed my mind is that its free. But then engine rebuilds arnt. :)
cheers

to the best of my knowlege they wash out the guns with kero or some kero derivitive. i know that kero is also almost identical to the engine fuel system cleaning additives that u can buy. those products recomend only like 10 ml/5 L or something so i don't know what would happen if u used a more concentrated dose. i expect that the mower motor would run and so would the car and would seem fine til it blew up
don't know if i've been helpful but thats my 2 cents.

If they could use it run engines on they wouldnt be paying to have it recycled. It will most likely destroy the diaphrams in your fuel pump, fuel lines, valve seats nd god knows wat else. I cant tell to much about octane or fuel to air mix but I dnt think it will burn the same as petrol. Ive been to a factory near my way that recycles that stuff nd all they can turn into is more low grade sht thinners and the by-product of the process cant even be used as land fill for something like 25 years. This stuff is just crap. How much can an A12 possibly cost run? I think keep away but put through your lawn mower, should be good for a laugh.

Hi Tommy
Just Googled Gunwash. It is approx 60% Toluene and the rest Xylene. The only issue in reading is it can perish rubber, so the fuel lines will need to be replaced with something that has resistance to this. Reading on Wiki it said that Toluene was used by Honda F1
but it states that it has no lubrication and so will cause upper cylinder wear...... Maybe add a Wynn's product in there too?

sounds like alot of work if your going to have to add more stuff...which will cost more money
so lots of effort for #### all savings really

and A12s hardly use fuel anyway

i used to work for a company that did ruberlining and they used tolulene on a daily basis, i tried in in my ute once or twice and didn't improve performance all that much it however seemed to burn alot cleaner when mixed with the fuel, but that was with pure tolulene. I put about a coke bottle worth to a full tank( 600ml:25 litres)

The stuff that they wash the guns out with is garbage, cheap and nasty! it would eat all the fuel lines and seals in no time at all.

running paint thinner works too only tried it on a paddock basher gtr torrie though

yea i ran my HG on thinners for a while. dont go buyin any fancy additive for lube,just add 60-100mls of sunflower oil per tank. but if your gonna do it put the gunwash through a thinners recycling machine first cos the paint thats mixed with it will eventually clog your lines,pump and carby. you can pick up a recycler for bout 1500-2 grand.

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Coincidently he had a talking homicidal puppet so I wouldn't pay too much attention to him!!

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how could you do that to a GTR torrie shame shame shame