rScotty
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- Joined
- Apr 21, 2001
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- Location
- Rural mountains - Colorado
- Tractor
- Kubota M59, JD530, JD310SG. Restoring Yanmar YM165D
Methanol? uh....that seems unlikely. Are you sure it isn't something else?
It's in windshield washer fluid.Is using methanol common? I've never had tires filled. It just seems odd to me to use methanol instead of some other tire fluid.
Methanol is crazy poisonous even in small doses. Even the vapors are poisonous, it is flammable, and it eats up rubber tire compounds making them brittle. Plus it only weighs three quarters of what water does. Methanol does lower freeze point, but then so do other less dangerous tire fluids. So why use methanol?
Because it's just windshield washer fluid, haha! Yes, quite common. As cheap as a buck per gallon, and you can pump it in yourself at home. I am tempted. But, I'd rather leak beet juice on my soil than methanol, if I were to ever get a puncture or flat.Is using methanol common? I've never had tires filled. It just seems odd to me to use methanol instead of some other tire fluid.
Methanol is crazy poisonous even in small doses. Even the vapors are poisonous, it is flammable, and it eats up rubber tire compounds making them brittle. Plus it only weighs three quarters of what water does. Methanol does lower freeze point, but then so do other less dangerous tire fluids. So why use methanol?