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Can I order
from you directly? |
| We really appreciate your interest
in ordering fuel directly from us, but we encourage
you to visit your local hobby dealer to purchase our
fuels. If your local dealer doesn't have Cool Power,
Omega or Sidewinder in stock, they can easily order
it for you through us or Horizon or Great planes in
the U.S., BBT in Europe and Canadian Hobbycraft in Canada.
Your local hobby shop is a source of information and
assistance as well as a good place to find people that
share your interests. Buy from your local hobby shop
so they will be there when you need them!!
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What is
the shelf life of the fuel? |
| Unopened and stored in ideal
conditions (between 60-80 degrees) it will remain usable
for several (5-7) years. As the fuel begins to degrade
it will increasingly lack the punch of new fuel. Really
the only way to tell if the fuel is good is to run it.
If it idles well and the transition is good on the ground,
use it. You might notice a little less "bark"
in a fuel that has been stored for several years but
it won't hurt the engine.
Opened would vary according to how much moisture the
fuel has sponged out of the air. A quick way to ruin
a gallon of fuel is to drain your tank at the end of
your flying day back into the fuel jug. What is happening
is that your fuel is picking up moisture from the pressurized
tank. The carburetor is sucking in humid air and after
combustion the moisture laden air is entering into your
tank via the tube from your muffler. When you return
the fuel from your tank to your fuel jug you are contaminating
the rest of the fuel in the jug.
My recommendation is to run your tank dry at the end
of the day, but whether you do that or not don't return
the fuel from your tank to your fuel jug.
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Is 17% oil
enough? |
| Short answer: Yes!
Long Answer: There are 2 major reasons for that emphatic
yes.
1, Many of the lubricant recommendation haven’t
been changed in 35 years since I started flying. They
are still based on fuels that use only castor oil as
a lubricant. Modern synthetics are a vast improvement
over AA Castor so you need much less. All engine manufacturers
exaggerate the amount of needed lubrication, because
they have to take into consideration a complete novice
tuning the engine and not knowing what bargain basement
brand of fuel that you may buy so they "require"
more lubricant. Actually there has been a shift at some
of the manufacturers lately. They are getting negative
feedback from their customers telling them their engines
don't run well on the high amounts of lubrication they
are suggesting.
2, our fuels contain a very high viscosity lubricant
(meaning that it protects your engine like 19%-20% regular
viscosity lube). It's similar to 100 to 1 outboard motor
lube and 30 to 1 lube, both give you adequate protection
but using the higher viscosity lube puts more methanol
and nitro in the chamber giving you better transition
and top end.
To dispel any misgivings you may have about the lubricant
content of our fuel it is used by more modelers around
the world than any other brand. World and National champions
such as
World and National Champions such as, Wolfgang
Matt, Roland Matt, Quique
Somenzini, Michael
Siddall, Kirk Gray, Chip
Hyde, Glenn
Watson, Ken Blackwell, Troy Newman, Raikio
Potter, Cliff Hiatt, Jason
Krause, Todd
Bennett, Len
Sabato, Dwight Shilling, Nob Nakumura,
Scott Grey, Wayne Mann, Chip Hyde, and Chen
Zarefati …they use the same off the
shelf fuel you buy at your local hobby shop.
We do not pay
anyone to use Cool Power or Omega, so there only reason
for choosing it is because it works as promised.
Are
they having lubrication problems, no quite the contrary?
If these fellas aren’t having problems
with the extreme conditions of competition
flying I’m fairly
confident you won’t either.
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Should I
use after-run oil? |
| No!
Most of our flyers don't use any after-run. Petroleum
based "after-run" oils do not mix with methanol-based
fuels. So,we definitely don’t recommend any petroleum
based lubes. Our built-in after-run oil is one of the
most universally recognized features of our fuels. As
an example of this check out these 2 e-mails we recieved,
This first one is from Troy Davis,
“It has been at least three years since I've flown
my model airplane due to the lack of free time so the
other day I'm standing in my garage and finally decided
to pull it down off the ceiling and see what it was
going to take to get it going again… I must admit
when I put it away three years ago I did not put after
run oil in the engine. The plane went straight from
the field, the last time I flew it, to the ceiling.
Now the question came to me, do I waste my time with
this engine or just get a new one? So I decided to crack
it open and check out just how bad it looked inside…
So now after I've torn the engine all apart and put
it back together I sit here writing this because I just
could not believe what I discovered. There was not one
bit of corrosion inside that engine. As a matter of
fact it looked like it did the last time I pulled it
apart when I was religiously flying it every weekend.
There was no way this was what I was seeing. How could
it hold up that long and not be at least somewhat corroded?
Then it came to me as I inspected around in the engine
I saw this green oil film all over the inside of the
casing. Sure enough the only thing it could be was that
all I ever ran in that engine was Cool Power synthetic
fuels... Thank you tons for looking after my equipment
for three years while I was unable to tend to it myself.”
And this one from Alan Wellentin,
“I've got a story that demonstrates extreme rust
protection. I parked one of my helicopters on the bottom
of a pond it stayed the night underwater. The next day
when I fished it out, I took out the glow plug, pumped
all the water out of the engine, refueled with fresh
30% cool power and started the engine. I let it idle
for a tank of fuel then it sat for a month until I got
all the parts to rebuild the heli. The engine has run
flawlessly. I recently took it apart and the insides
still look new even after sitting underwater for 16
hours.”
Thanks for a great product, Alan Wellentin
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Should I
pour the unused fuel from my tank back into the fuel
jug? |
| No!
As mentioned in the question above about shelf life:
A quick way to ruin a gallon of fuel is to drain your
tank at the end of your flying day back into the fuel
jug. What is happening is that your fuel is picking
up moisture from the pressurized tank. The carburetor
is sucking in humid air and after combustion the moisture
laden air is entering into your tank via the tube from
your muffler. When you return the fuel from your tank
to your fuel jug you are contaminating the rest of the
fuel in the jug.
My recommendation is to run your tank dry at the end
of the day, but whether you do that or not don't return
the fuel from your tank to your fuel jug.
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Should I
pour the unused fuel from my tank back into the fuel
jug? |
| No!
As mentioned in the question above about shelf life:
A quick way to ruin a gallon of fuel is to drain your
tank at the end of your flying day back into the fuel
jug. What is happening is that your fuel is picking
up moisture from the pressurized tank. The carburetor
is sucking in humid air and after combustion the moisture
laden air is entering into your tank via the tube from
your muffler. When you return the fuel from your tank
to your fuel jug you are contaminating the rest of the
fuel in the jug.
My recommendation is to run your tank dry at the end
of the day, but whether you do that or not don't return
the fuel from your tank to your fuel jug.
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Can I use
Cool Power in ABC, ABN, non-ringed motors? |
| Yes!
Although we recommend Omega (our Castor/Synthetic Blend)
for non-ringed engines, the recommendation of Cool Power
for ringed engines only, is mainly because castor does
offer a little more protection than straight synthetic
(especially for less experienced tuners, and in lean
run situations)...
That being said we have many flyers that use Cool Power
in everything and have no problems or excessive wear.
As ilustrated in the following e-mail from David Scott
instructor and owner of the 1ST U.S. R/C FLIGHT SCHOOL:
"I average nearly 400 hours per engine. I directly
attribute this engine life and hassle-free operation
to using Cool Power with its wear and rust protectors.
The only maintenance our engines require is an occasional
changing of the Glo-plug. If I can consistently average
an operating life of nearly 400 hours on each engine
in the abusive conditions of a full-time Flight School,
the individual flyer is guaranteed to have almost unlimited
engine life expectancy and reliability when running
Cool Power."
This is a note from Ken Ausili: "I was wondering
why you say Cool Power is for ringed engines, I have
run Cool Power in all my ABC ABN engines and never had
one problem. After gallons of fuel used, the inside
of my engines still look like new. Thanks for making
a great product."
So you can see that obviously Cool Power can be used
in most applications.
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What should
I use for break-in? |
| Our recommendation is to use
whatever fuel you intend to use after break-in just
run it rich.
You can add oil if you'd like but it's not necessary.
If you do add oil to increase the lubricant ratio for
every1.28 oz. you add you will increase the lubricant
content by approximatly 1%.
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Is there
a differances in the CP 15% and the CP 15% heli? |
| No there is no difference. At
one time there was a difference between the 15% aero
fuel and the 15% heli. Originally the heli fuel contained
an anti-foam additive and there was a slight difference
in the lubricant package. Now all of our fuels contain
anti-foam and working with Cliff Hiatt (former World
Champion) we discovered that the aero lubricant package
worked better in the Helis so now both formulations
are the same.
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Who sells
Cool Power in my area? |
| We are working on our Dealers
Page now, our problem is we mainly sell through distributors
and we're not sure of the stores who don't buy from
us direct.
If you have a hobby store that sells Morgan Fuels
or know of a store please contact us and we will appreciate
your letting us know!
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I need
to buy Model Fuel in Europe,who is the distributer? |
| Big Boys Toys Handelsagentur
GmbH
Hauptstrasse 4
83607 Holzkirchen-Föching
Tel.: +49 (0)8024 477570
Fax : +49 (0)8024 478123
www.coolpower.de
www.bbtgmbh.de
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