home brew 2stroke oil

[frankz]

anyone heard any good recipes......... i cant believe its rocket science

 

[frankz]

what is diff from normal oil........or veggie oil

 

[bluegoatwoods]

I've never heard of anyone making two stroke oil.

I don't know much about the stuff, but it's obviously a hydrocarbon. Since it's meant to be burnt, I would guess that it's a smaller, more volatile, molecule than oils that are better suited to lubrication only.

and this would seem to suggest that trying out other off the shelf oils might not be a very good idea.

 

[bluegoatwoods]

Thinking about it a little more, there's bound to be referrence material that would tell you if, say, vegetable oil had acceptable characteristics.

Any chemical engineers on this site?

 

[Mountainman]

Pablo -- on site -- could tell you what is required

and I will put my money here -- it is not easy to make

I would rather spend time -- riding that MB THING

 

[BSA]

Apparently vegetable oil has been used on methanol burning 2 strokes with great succses. I know someone running a HT on methanol.

BSA

 

[cooltoy]

Caster oil wood be a veg., but 8 bucks worth of a good synthetic will last months and in my view is the best stuff around.
http://www.sea-doo.net/techarticles/oil/oil.htm

 

[arceeguy]

Castor bean oil is vegetable oil, and has good lubricating characteristics but it forms gobs of carbon in the ring lands, combustion chamber and plug.

 

[luke]

the modern kits run well on cheap lawnmower two stroke oil if you are trying to save money.i used to use ordinary 30-50 car motor oil on old villiers engines but i wouldn't recomend it on modern bikes.old bikes where built to run on cruder fuel.

 

[Skyliner70cc]

Castor bean oil is vegetable oil, and has good lubricating characteristics but it forms gobs of carbon in the ring lands, combustion chamber and plug.

NOt carbon, but a varnish that is a superior dry lubricant. Pure castor is hardly used anymore and a touch blended into a quality synthetic lubricant allows the benefit of syn's cleaning burn while providing the benefits of castor.