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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Technical Tips, Builds, and Help => Topic started by: Jim on August 15, 2024, 07:03:18 pm
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Thank you Raphaël.
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Bonjour Jim,
In France, a very interesting gasoline for our Hit & miss engines is a very clean one called "Alkylate", it can be found on Amazon : https://www.amazon.fr/ASPEN-%C3%A9conomique-litres-carburant-alkylate/dp/B08ZG4VCH5 and I am sure elsewhere.
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It’s a mystery. ;D
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Aye .... yup!
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That's hellish expensive though Mate. I can buy a gallon for less than that, even figuring the conversion. A pint typically costs about $7-10 US here.
Its free postage (so that would be around $12) and you have to remember this was brought by sea to Australia and its evilbay.
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That's hellish expensive though Mate. I can buy a gallon for less than that, even figuring the conversion. A pint typically costs about $7-10 US here.
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Thanks Daniel, when I got my H&M engines all you blokes in the good ol' US of A where talking about MMO and I searched high and low for it down here to no avail.
I was surprised to see it on Aussie eBay yesterday.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/393939120935?
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Is this the same Marvel Mystery Oil that you Northern hemisphere cousins use in your mix for model & hit miss engines?
If it is the same, what's the benefit over a good outboard oil?
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Certainly, the packaging looks like the same stuff. I think it is a fair amount lighter and more easily mixed in with various fuels, but I also think that I have heard that some have used it as two-cycle oil as well.
So, the real answer that I have for your question is ......... I don't know!
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Is this the same Marvel Mystery Oil that you Northern hemisphere cousins use in your mix for model & hit miss engines?
If it is the same, what's the benefit over a good outboard oil?
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