Adding Marvel Mystery oil to fuel

[Ronald1]

Re: Adding Marvel Mystery oil to fuel

This thread has me thinking that maybe I should run some Quicksilver through my airtools. As a former auto mechanic I always ran MMO through my airtools. Now I have to smack the direction change buttons on my impact wrenches with a socket the 3-4 times a year that I use them........

 

[LubeDude]

Re: Adding Marvel Mystery oil to fuel

Originally posted by Captain Tuna:<br /> This thread has me thinking that maybe I should run some Quicksilver through my airtools. As a former auto mechanic I always ran

Funny you should say that, I have been doing exactly that for many many years, Ive been using the Amsoil 100:1 in them. (Because I had it) I still have most of them and they are running fine. Some bearings have been changed, but the oil dosnt get to them that you put into the air line.<br /><br />Just for the rumor mill, If your air tools are getting sticky, I have in the past on a used purchase squirted laquer thinner in them and flushed them out and then imeadiatly reoiled them with great results, I think that it would be a better choice to fill them with seafoam though and Im sure it would do the same thing and wouldnt damage seals. I never experienced any problems though. Be prepared for a lot of crud to come out when you first put air to them though and make sure you know where the air comes out so you do not spray youself in the face. Been there done that.

 

[james082273]

Re: Adding Marvel Mystery oil to fuel

Strange about the effects of MMO on small engines...<br /><br />I have an old K&B 7.5cc outboard that I soaked the crank case with MMO before I got married (about 7 years ago) and plugged the carb (loosely) with a round chunk of wood. It has a throttle exhaust so the carb doesn't have a throttle plate. It's been in storage ever since. I got it out a couple weeks ago and it was just the way I left it. Nice and clean. Turned over nicely I might add also. Maybe the MMO had totally evaporated after all that time. Who knows?

 

[troska]

Re: Adding Marvel Mystery oil to fuel

Hmmm. <br /><br />That household product database shows both rislone and MMO to have the same main component. MMO also contains stoddard solvent, basically a more aromatic higher boiling point mineral spirits.<br /><br />The main component of both is mineral oil. Mineral oil will still be liquid after all the LMW components evaporate off. As a short time (5 yr) R/C'er all the guys I've seen with "MMO problems" where the guys running 100% castor in their fuel.<br /><br />Tim

 

[LubeDude]

Re: Adding Marvel Mystery oil to fuel

I see nothing in the MMO that could ever actually harden into something that hard regardless of how long it set. (Not to say it didnt happen).<br /><br />I do know that castor oil is another story in itself. Its one of the worlds best lubricants for high heat and high reving engines, but it doesnt burn well and is really sticky and hard to remove compleatly. Im wondering if the castor and the MMO might have had some kind of reaction to each other??? Not sure if the castor oil was even in BillPs original equation though.

 

[fastacker]

Re: Adding Marvel Mystery oil to fuel

Possibly the ortho-dichlorobenzene 1-2% in Marvel Mystery oil is polymerizing into something like a chlorinated solid styrene polymer over time? It's a mystery to me. Moth balls are para-dichlorobenzene I think. So ortho might already be close to a solid even before polymerizing.

 

[jim dozier]

Re: Adding Marvel Mystery oil to fuel

ortho dichloro-benzene is just a chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbon which is a more agressive solvent than the naphtha (stoddard solvent) which makes the bulk vehicle of the product. My guess is that if you fill a tool or an engine that has deposits inside, and then you don't flush all of the deposits out (i.e. drain the Marvel out) the deposits that have been dissolved by the Marvel will re-solidify (possibly polymerize) and cause the tool/engine to stick. The moral of this story is don't let a tool/engine full of Marvel dry out. It might be analogous to pumping an engine full of decarb and then not running it for 6months or a year. All that dissolved crud is going to restick somewhere when the decarb solvent dries out.

 

[troska]

Re: Adding Marvel Mystery oil to fuel

ortho-DCB is a liquid at RT, I believe. I'm not sure that there would be much chance of a polymerization taking place. Possible though.<br /><br />Tim