Hi Y'all! I have most of the pieces in place or coming. I even dug my old titration supplies out of the attic. Anyone in the San Francisco area know of a good local supplier of methanol? I would rather source everything out locally than use the internet( unless the shipping company uses BioD!)

So what do you say? Any good local suppliers?

Thanks for your time and knowledge!

300TBD-T purrs like a kitten, strong as an Ox

Use the Yellow Pages. I found methanol in the metro Atlanta area with two phone calls starting with nothing. Call the most likely listing first. If they don't have it, ask who does. Worked for me.

Patrick

Call your local Ramos Oil distributor.
Later, Sean

Engine Research Co or something like that.... reallly nice owner, bunch of 17-year olds dispensing methanol out of a gas pump (scary) for about 2.25/gallon. Bring your own container.
ERC, 610 E Lewelling Blvd
San Lorenzo, CA 94580
510- 276 9334

than dispensing gasoline out of a pump. Both will go Boom and cause a fire with little provocation.

MM legend

I have checked out the place and the "scariest" thing about it is the lack of any safety equipment required (or at least used) to handle the stuff. No gloves, no protective clothing, no masks let alone vapor resistant resporaters. You can smell the place before you get there. So combine breathing in all those wonderful vapors 8 hours a day every day with the mental accuity of the typical (American) 17 year old (pre methanol mental degradation) and it is a little bit scary, not so much for the boom factor, although the kids are just shootin the **** and not always looking towards the nozzle, but in the future health factors these youth are going to have to face in a very short while. Methonal induced degeneration IS very scary. Ask any Aussie friend who has walked (or driven) through the hard side of the city. It ain't pretty.

El Jefe

El Jefe:

Is it significantly different then the same kids pumping low lead...In my part of the continent we have a serious problem, especially in the native reservations, of kids getting high on gas vapours and the inherent mental degradation that insues. At least they aren't exposed to Tetra Ethyl Lead as my generation was.

Bill

Oh, trust the both of us, Biosmell is right bout the fumes comng out of the place. It's not just methanol- they sell a bunch of high-test stuff in there- and they've got the common mechanic shop/industrial attitude that sneers at safety gear.

Kids who become glue heads (or gas huffers, or whatever) out of desparate circumstances or socioeconomic factors are in an altogether different category than some kid who's being paid minimum wage for a job that destroys their body and future. Especially in a society where they'll probably never collect any kind of health care or benefits compensation for this exposure, should they develop any of a host of resulting illnesses (trust me, I used to work in industry and have been racking my brain trying to figure out what exact exposure to what chemicals could be causing me serious the physical problems I'm developing in the prime of my life).
Mark