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Re: Calling all Gas (Petrol) Heads
« on: October 31, 2022, 08:53:58 pm »
Jim, it looks like Coleman fuel has a lower octane rating (at 50-55) than does your Fuelite at an octane rating of 65, provided the different countries do rate octane the same. I also can find no reference for using Coleman fuel as a brake cleaner, though I have often used it as a cleaner of various petrochemical gums, gunks and scums, so it would likely work to some degree.

I would say that while they are likely quite similar products, I would also have to say that they are at least slightly different products, though their range of uses clearly overlap.

On an off note, I would say from experience, that a gallon can of Coleman fuel can be used as a crush space cushion to a certain degree, though I am more than certain that is not a manufacturers' recommended usage!!!

See the Off-Note story in a different thread, here:

https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/off-topic/coleman-fuel-can-as-crash-cushion/msg53910/?topicseen#msg53910
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