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Can I order
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| 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, CleanCastor™ has excellent wetting properties
giving it a superb anti-scuffing advantage under high
bearing loads. The polarity of our castor in combination
with our specifically formulated additive package and
high-viscosity base stock fluids will provide a perfect
balance of performance and protection. Our Ultra-Viscosity
lubricant (meaning that it protects your engine like
19%-20% regular viscosity lube) and regular viscosity
lubes are like comparing 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 Chen Zarefati, Wolfgang and Roland Matt,
Chip Hyde, Wayne Mann, Dwight Shilling, Cliff Hiatt,
Quique Somenzini, Jason Krause, Todd Bennett, Kirk Grey,
Andy Brown, Greg DeGani, Nir Meir, Scott Grey, Gary
Wright, Ivan Kristensen…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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What
is CleanCastor, and why is it better? |
| CleanCastor™ is our own
modified castor oil. It is made from the first pressing
of the castor bean, filtered and then degummed to give
you the unique lubricating properties of castor without
excessive buildup and carbon. CleanCastor™ is
not chemically extracted, giving it excellent anti-scuffing
properties under high bearing loads. The additives in
our fuels combine with the CleanCastor™ to adhere
more strongly to metals than castor by itself.
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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 and 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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Why
does Morganfuel use 30% castor and others use 20%? |
| In the past Lubricant blending
was always a give and take of positive and negative
features. This was before we discovered the synergistic
properties of our CleanCastor™ and Ultra-Viscosity™
Synthetic lubricants. CleanCastor™ gives you the
unique lubricating properties of castor without excessive
buildup and carbon in combination with the detergency
of our Ultra-Viscosity™ Synthetic Base stock fluid
we can use 30% of our castor without the mess and carbon
associated with 20% of a standard castor oil. Which
gives Omega the added lean run protection of 10% more
castor.
CleanCastor™ has excellent wetting properties
giving it a superb anti-scuffing advantage under high
bearing loads. The polarity of our castor in combination
with our specifically formulated additive package and
high-viscosity base stock fluids will provide a perfect
balance of performance and protection. All in all there
is no reason to make compromise to either oil any longer.
Omega is a perfect balance.
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Who sells
Omega 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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