Today I got five gallons of Methanol from the local supply house and in mixing a 50/50% mix with water, it presents as a white/cloudy solution (I want to say emulsion).

Is this right?

Both individually are crystal clear.


I've historically run windshield washer fluid and wanted to give a true 50/50 blend a go.

Running at the track tonight, my times were WAY off.

 

others here are much more versed than me at 50/50 but as i remember it Methanol Alcohol actually absorbs water and becomes cloudy. the drag/dirt racers are real quick to notice UNclear meth. they hate it if it's 3% water!! crossy

 

BC
this is just a guess what made it cloudy (the water)

city

well

bottle

distilled

city and well waters are not clean waters. I have found out the hard way in beer brewing. try boiling your water 5mins per gallon

again its just a guess

 

crossy ~ Makes sense.

Bobva ~ I used my well water which is historically very soft in that it has very low calcium hardness and alkalinity. VERY low total dissolved solids.

As such, it's corrosive as heck.

 

city and well waters are not clean waters. I have found out the hard way in beer brewing. try boiling your water 5mins per gallon

so your beer is not cloudy anymore :-) or your beer pee isn't??

 

BC
my house was on well water for 30 years now city water. Well in that 30 yrs of high iron in the water it ate some of my copper plumbing.

Crossy
some of the beers I brew are made cloudy (unfilterd wheat beer) good stuff.
so their for Im the filter

 

BC i mixed some the other day... i always use distilled water and it was cloudy.

 

BC
I just made a pint of 50/50 with bottle water = cloudy

 

Thanks fellas.

I was just skert I got Varsol or sumpthin.

 

I have a valve off my AC condensation line and I fill up a clean 5 gallon bucket with clean water pulled in by the house AC. I fill up about 15- 20 gallons a summer to last over winter. I use this in car coolent systems and can use with water/methanol. Its cheap, free and works. Just what I like.