rad and coolant, TPEFI related

[Joe Boucher]

At 05:54 PM 10/23/97 +0000, you wrote:
>
>I bought a drum of propylene glycol a year ago for a heat exchanger.  
>The Purchaing agent thought we paid about $6.00 per gallon.  It was 
>not as dry as is needed for this application bu twhat the heck 
>figure out a way to boil it out.
>
>Industrial chemical houses sell it.  We get it from Dyce Chemical in 
>Billings, Montana.  If is is available here at the edge of the world, 
>it must be everywhere.    There is a lot of it around.  Every 
>big airport has a recycler that sucks it up off the deiceing area and 
>reconstitutes it.  A few years ago it was unlawful to rinse airplanes 
>with used glycol (gasp), so they cleaned it up, took it to Canada 
>and they deiced their airplanes for less money.
>
>John Carroll     
>

Veterinarians (You know, the animal doctors, not the war heroes) use it to
isolate infected stomachs in cattle.  They buy it for about $6.00 a gallon.
 But the MECCA folks claim their additives are special and required to
lubricate the pump.  I'd claim that also.


Joe Boucher
'70 RS/SS Camaro  '81 TBI Suburban