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In my post I clearly did not say that Acetone (or any other octane enhancer) improved MPG -by itself-. I said that acetone IS a very high Octane hydrocarbon....which is nothing more than a plain fact of chemistry that anyone can look up for themselves in a table of characteristics of various...

avntech, Would you have PDF manuals for a PU-667A/G Marine Corps gen-set? It's a mid-60's set made by Condec/Monarch...5kw...2-cyl Lister-Petter engine.....and in 4 yrs of looking, I've yet to find manuals for it. There were 668, 669, and 670 in the series...all used the same...

oh sure, but do YOU want to run a 15kw Skilsaw ??? :roll: :razz: :grin:

Acetone is quite high octane....from memory, somewhere in the 120 range. Any textbook on internal combustion engines or petroleum fuels will have a table of common hydrocarbons, alcohols, etc.....with pertinent characteristics of each...including octane and cetane rating. So, Acetone can...

There is no way to convert the 400cyc alternator on there to 60 cyc output. The -frequency- is determined by the number of physical poles/slots in the stator, times the RPM. Obviously, you cannot change the way the laminations in the stator were machined/made.....i.e., stamped. A 400cyc...

howdy guys....haven't posted in a while...been busy cleaning up the mine...getting ready to move next year. I can't get the classifieds section to work, so I'm posting this here. Mods, feel free to move it when the class-ads are fixed. I just traded an antique Forest Service work-camp...