-some follow-on notes.
1. After 24 hours, all paper samples (1-10%) lost their diesel smell.
2. After handling Jet-A and before calibrating your sniffer, you'll want to wash your hands. Even the slightest contamination on your hands will throw off a good sniff test.
----- Original Message ----
From: "Sky2high@aol.com" <Sky2high@aol.com>
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 4:51:28 PM
Subject: [LML] Re: Fuel Testing
Chris,
Excellent report. You have inspired me to get some Jet A and make a 5% mixture of it and 100LL. Then, allow that mixture and a straight 100LL sample to evaporate on strips of 24# paper and sniff each. I hope that it will be a memorable event (different smell, reasonable human smell memory). I almost always get fuel from a self serve pump and placing a paper strip in the flowing stream could reveal the needed information in a subsequent sniff.
Thanks again,
Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk
Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96
Aurora, IL (KARR)
Pilot not TSO'd, Certificated score only > 70%.