Things you can do with unusable gasoline.

If you're taking apart things like lawnmowers or weedeaters and there's still some gas in the tank that's either got water in it or just a bunch of crud I have a couple uses in mind. My grandpa used to run a small engine repair shop out of his garage and he always used it as weedkiller in his gravel driveway. This is no use to me as my driveway is concrete. But I do have a firepit. The immediate thought on that is to just dump some on there to get it started but there's a way to make that firestarter last a little longer. Make some napalm. All you gotta do is just throw some styrofoam in there and it'll eat it right up. Keep adding to it until it gets nice and thick. It might take alot though depending on how much gas you got. Put a little on the start of your fire and it'll burn like a candle.



This message is brought to you by the anarchist cookbook. Some of the stupid things I did in highschool might come in handy after all.

Boys.... boys.... boyz....
I end up with a fair amount of old gas from vehicles that I strip for scrap and I just save it in 5 gallon cans and mix with old motor oil for starting fires, I burn a lot of dead fall and brush out here but I only burn when it's raining or snowing to limit the possibility of runaway fires.
Half a gallon of that mix starts wet wood piles quite well but don't explode......sounds like a fair way to get rid of styrofoam tho too.
;?)

When I was a kid I was working on my mini-bike and needed to empty the gas into something and decided my Dad's styro minnow bucket was a great thing to use. I remember cuss'in cuz someone took it then I realized the blob of goo on the floor used to be the bucket. Sorry Dad, yeah that was me.

Originally Posted by Re-cycler

Boys.... boys.... boyz....
I end up with a fair amount of old gas from vehicles that I strip for scrap and I just save it in 5 gallon cans and mix with old motor oil for starting fires, I burn a lot of dead fall and brush out here but I only burn when it's raining or snowing to limit the possibility of runaway fires.
Half a gallon of that mix starts wet wood piles quite well but don't explode......sounds like a fair way to get rid of styrofoam tho too.
;?)

Also known as diesel fuel or heating oil.

Originally Posted by Kris Kringle

Zak How Old are you Again?

Just turned 27.

I always thought of napalm as jellied gasoline and I wondered "how do you make gasoline jelly?" Now I know lol

Originally Posted by Scrap man

I always thought of napalm as jellied gasoline and I wondered "how do you make gasoline jelly?" Now I know lol

Now you no why the Air Force goes through so many more coffee cups then the Army does.

Originally Posted by KZBell

Now you no why the Air Force goes through so many more coffee cups then the Army does.

Hahaha!!!!

When I do get unusable gasoline, I typically put it in a drum and store it for using in my parts cleaner.

Originally Posted by CMHN

Gasoline in a parts cleaner is asking for trouble.

Never had any problems, and I don't mix the cleaning fluid with gasoline. But it's a grounded spark free parts cleaner. And haven't found anything that cleans the grime off parts better.

Well besides MEK, but I can't get my hands on that stuff anymore.