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The price of nitro fuel?

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  • 09-08-2008 12:32pm
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    Plug
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    Anyone notice has the price of nitro gone up because of the oil crises?:confused: I could get 16% for €30 a gallon. There selling bryons 20% in kilkenny for €30 a half gallon:rolleyes:


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    FuzzyWuzzyWazza
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    It's 'cos of the Olympics!!

    link


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    vectra
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    Plug wrote: »
    Anyone notice has the price of nitro gone up because of the oil crises?:confused: I could get 16% for €30 a gallon. There selling bryons 20% in kilkenny for €30 a half gallon:rolleyes:


    Byrons is more expensive than the other stuff you used to buy for €30 ;)


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    bonisio
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    €30 for half a gallon of 20% is rather expensive especially if its half an American gallon. 2.5 litres of Merlin Expert 25% which is similar to O'Donnell fuel is only €19.50.

    Merlin Pro Racing fuel, which is the official fuel for the Onroad World Championships which are on in Portugal next week, costs €27.5 for 2.5 litres of 25%.


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    coolwings
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    I agree with bonisio. €30 for half a US gallon (2.5 litres) of 20% is rather expensive.

    The Model Technics at www.greenhobbymodel.com comes in 4.5 litre containers.
    At the moment the 2 interesting Model Technics blends would be:
    GoGlo Plus 16 Blend, 16% nitro, 4.551 Litres, €28.99
    Bekra 20 Blend, 20% nitro, 4.551 Litres, €32.50

    The 20% Bekra would be labelled as just under 25%, by some US makers if they sold it due to their "interesting" way of measuring the nitro by weight! The 16% GoGlo+ would be labelled just under 20% if labelled in the US style.

    Those above would be premium Model Technics blends with very high quality multi synthetic oils. A Model Technics budget blend, Expert 25% in 2.5 litre containers is at the moment available in Green Hobby & Model Dublin for €21.50.


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    T-Maxx
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    coolwings wrote: »
    I agree with bonisio. €30 for half a US gallon (2.5 litres) of 20% is rather expensive.

    You mean 1.9 litre.:p


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    syl77
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    Isn't a US Gallon = 3.78
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon


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    coolwings
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    T-Maxx wrote: »
    You mean 1.9 litre.:p

    You're right T-Maxx .. if the Byrons is measured US style (is that legal in the EU?) then 1/2 gall is only 1.89 litres!
    €15+/litre is pretty steep!

    As it happens, being an electric (mainly) modeller I have a hard time buying any fuel at all. I only have 2 nitro engine models now, the rest of mine are electric. One is the Specter buggy (needing repairs!) and the other is the Gladiator/MVVS 50 & 7 others are leccies)
    At this stage I use more glowfuel tuning up other peoples engines than running my own.


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