I have some ether for F2C fuel if anybody is interested.

Bill

Are you shipping it? What's ether going for these days?

No, I will not ship. If anybody wants it, it's either here at my home or I will bring to the NATs.

In order to recover my costs: $40/liter in your container or $150 for a 4liter bottle.

Bill do u still have either for sale

Quote from: bob whitney on January 19, 2024, 12:05:28 PM
Bill do u still have either for sale

Bob, what I have I am hoarding at the moment since I will need a supply to provide for the competitors at the World Camps. Once I know what the needs will be there, I will likely have some left that I can part with.

Regards,

Bill

Is it true that if you store pure ether for too long it becomes shock sensitive?

Walter,

The answer is Maybe.

It is listed as a "shock sensitive" material as is nitromethane.

https://oehs.ecu.edu/chemical-hygiene/chemical-and-hazardous-waste/shock-sensitive-chemicals/

But how it is stored would seem to be a factor. I have seen pure dimethyl ether stored 10+ years in a stainless steel container and it had not degraded in any observable way.

Dave

Quote from: Motorman on January 21, 2024, 09:21:12 AM
Is it true that if you store pure ether for too long it becomes shock sensitive?

Our club bought a 20 Litre drum of Di-Ethyl-Ether (aka DEE) in 1994. We decanted it to various individuals and finally there was 5 Litres left. My friend Dave filled a 5-Litre tin plated Motor Mower fuel can with it and I watched as he stored it under the sink in his workshop. Twenty Years later he died and some of us cleared out his shed. I took the 5-Litre can opened it and it still smelt fresh. I used the Ether over the next few years with perfect satisfaction.

It didn't leak away over 20 years despite the lack of storage precautions. It didn't form any dangerous Peroxides. I was talking to the local person who supplied most of the DEE to modellers in Australia recently. In decades of supplying it he's never heard of anyone ever having nasty experiences with it.

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