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"If for some reason you ingest a small amount of methanol or spill some on a large surface area of your skin, get DRUNK ASAP"
Just to err on the safe side and be prepared I prefer to stay in a constant state of inoculation.Ron

Ron, as they say safety first!

Norm, can't answer your question since skin absorption is tied to many variables such as quality/tone of skin (are your hands baby soft or calloused), exposure time (did you rinse it off immediately or just wipe your hands off), are you one of those girly men who uses hand lotion (hand lotion would decrease skin absorption), any open cuts?, did you put on an occlusive such as gloves after absorption without rinsing or washing off first?

I'd say a six pack would be appropriate in your situation. Seriously, ethanol IV is one of the traditional treatments for methanol poisoning. There is another option (fomepizole/antizolbut it is very expensive and not as fun.

The doses I gave were for lethal doses, blindness can occur as much lower doses of exposure.

I got a whole mouthful of methanol once (I was priming a glow engine blowing into fuel lin and the fuel pressurized and shot back at me). I drank 3 beers and since I was already volume overloaded, I followed them up with 4 shots of hard liquor over an hour. I'm not blind and still alive and my only remaining adverse effect is I give forum moderators a hard time.

Skyliner 70cc
You need a shot of methanol with either 25% nitro or 50 % nitro with pure castor oil in the mix for jacking with moderators.
Then you will be running on fuel
I used to follow Rans49 advice maybe thats why I wasn't affected by the methanol

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This is a video of my home project. Methanol and peanut oil mix. works. The main observation is the engine works best with choke ON. I drain the tank after each use and will continue to monitor for any deterioration and wear.
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hey I just wanted to speak on the compression bit
I bumped mine way up on gasoline.... shaved the head at least .025 the stock headgastets thickness & then put in a thinner gasket too
the thing runs better for sure with no evidence of pre ignition on the plug at all
the stock compression is only 6:1
on methanol you should be able to bump it way up no problem
take care
JAK

What about 100 octane aviation fuel ? ( Don`t you have a homebuilt aircraft Norman ? ) Any body ever try blue AV-Gas ?

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Yes I have an airplane but I use auto fuel regular in the plane.
You should be able to bump the compression all the way up to 14 to 1 I think with methanol the problem with methanol is your engine will be a fuel hog and the alcohol is rough on the aluminum parts, alcohol will draw water out of the air, will cause rust on the iron parts in the engine if left for any length of time and not ran.
I'm not sure just what a guy would want to do on getting the compression way up there I'm very happy with using regular gas and not mess with the higher octane stuff its more expensive.
I haven't got wild with the compression either just a few thousands taken out to raise the comp. not more than 0.050 so far.I can't decide what I want to mess with next I've been having fun making the pipes and might get a little more involved but still not sure the pipes are a lot of work to make.

Milegajo
What size main jet did you try I went up to a 0.080 I think and still seems a little lean you must be pretty lean if you have to use the choke to make it run, I messed with a mix of 2parts reg gas with 1part methanol and I used castor oil at a 32to 1 ratio in the mix castor will mix with gas or alcohol. I didn't like the results all that well and quit messing with blends wish I still had access to some nitro as I like to play with it makes engines go real fast before they melt down.

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Try AV-gas > I mixed 1/2 gal. of the blue 100 octane aviation gas ( @ $5.17 per gal. ) with 1/2 gal. of Amoco 92 octane auto gas & Pennzoil 2-cycle synthetic oil. ( 26:1 fuel/oil ratio ) My stock 70 cc runs like a scalded dog now ! Next batch I mix up I`m trying the Golden Spectro Motorcycle Synthetic/Petroleum Blend 2-cycle oil.

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