[modeleng] Re: Humbrol and Dremels

  • From: "Bob Logan" <boblogan@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:27:23 +1300

That's the one, Al, we use it here in New Zealand too.    The old '38 V8s
used to go like the clappers, better'n ordinary petrol/gasoline.

Bob L

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 8:37 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Humbrol and Dremels


> "Benzene"?  Is this what my father's generation called
> "White Gasoline" and used it in Coleman stoves and
> lanterns?
>
> Al Messer
> --- alanjstepney <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Tim & Len.
> >
> > I wonder what Humbrol use to make it worth(?) over
> > £3 per 125 ml. (That's
> > only .2 of a pint.) That works out at over £100 per
> > gallon, so I certainly
> > wont try running my car on it !!
> >
> > Len, lighter fuel is naphtha. Also ideal for running
> > some of the old designs
> > of model engines as they were intended to use that
> > or benzene.
> >
> > I will use what I have then go over to white spirit.
> > alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > www.alanstepney.info
> > Model Engineering, Steam Engine, and Railway
> > technical pages.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Tim Rickard" <the_viffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:38 AM
> > Subject: [modeleng] Re: Humbrol and Dremels
> >
> >
> > OOooh I've come over all chemical
> >
> > Now why doesn't that surprise me !! lol
> >
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