Nitro Engine Running on WD-40
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Running my rc nitro engine (Kyosho gx12) on 50%, 75& and 100% WD-40.
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I don't think most people realise how flammable WD-40 is, I once made the mistake of squirting some into an electric motor & when I powered it up the resulting fireball took my eyebrows off lol.
WD-40 on it's own isn't that flammable. It's mostly mineral oil, (baby oil) and it's not exact like it's a flash fire hazard. They used to use propane to pressurize it in the aerosol cans, which made for a real fire show, but today it's supposedly CO2, meaning that once it isn't a cloud of oil in the air, it wont easily burn.
Which is why the engine runs worse and worse, and finally, at 100% WD-40, wont run at all.
I did it too
It smoked and when i took my electric rc car out it set itself on fire so i drove it into some water and it still works to this day lol
@@fuckngreat8955 lol
it makes a good flamethrower with a lighter in my experience
Lol
Damn that nitro engine smell is to die for. Growing up as a kid I'd have these. I remember trying to start my dad's old aircraft abc engine with a drill on a block of wood. Love em.
I see WD-40, I click
Me too, i'm a simple man
A automotive mechanic I see
Same
I was surprised to see how clean the engine was after.
its not that a bearing needs some grease in it... that wd-40 cleaned it for sure but if he doesnt grease it it will get destroyed so clean or not clean thats the question
Wd 40 I believe has 25% oil init I don't know what kind but that equates to 1/4 oil mix with the right fuel an engine might last longer
theres a reason why some grease kinds are thick and some are runny ;) and WD40 is beyond Thick ... and a BallBearing like the one in his Motor needs some thicker grease than WD40 which means it will get damaged over the time and that will slow down the engine and decrease the performance
greets :)
Gumout!
wtf? the fuel is always oiled. you dont grease the bearings in nitro engines...
I hope you never stop making videos!
I love love love your content!
Merry Christmas guys!
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JohnnyQ90 Merry Christmas to you too.
You too. I love your vids
Hay Merry Christmas you should see how it runs on diesel
JohnnyQ90 strart a nitro engine on 2 stroke gas to see what happens
I love your* videos, sir!
Keep up the good work!!!!
I love your videos bro. Such nice builds what you make👌👍👊
The reason it does not run on 100% is the platnum glow plug requires reaction with methanol to stay lit.
lol what?
@@midship_nc learn
@@monsterrateh3685 you spend a lot of time learning about "platnum" catalytic reactions?
Its true though, the platinum within the glow plug wiring is a catyst after the glow igniter is used to heat it and the engine is started, after that the catalytic reaction keeps it running.
That engine on idle sounds like Peter Griffin laughing 😂
I can't I hear that now, thx 🤣🤣🤣
@@nathanlester9985 goddamn, you just reunited me with my younger self humor again after 3 years lol
Wow! Your demonstration is very good!
That’s so smart. Clean and lubricate the engine by running 50/50 nitro wd40!!
Some of the new nitro fuel like traxxas's top fuel has lubrication in it fun fact
@@syphir5710 all nitro fuel lubricates
if i remember correctly wd-40 has an etching agent in it which is why it helps loosen things , it actually eats some metal away . you will loose tolerances over time.
It worked that was awesome. Great job bro
Thanks for showing the engine you used!
Merry christmas to you as well. It looks like you made a cool discovery. Either a 25 wd40 75 nitro or a 50-50 mix is a dam good thing for the motor. Looks like I will be doing this for the last run on my RC's befor I put them away. Awsome man thank you
...I really enjoy seeing your incredible machine work and outstanding craftsmanship in your vids! - FYI, the reason your RC engine wouldn't run on 100% WD-40 is because of the glow plugs used in that type of engine. Those engines _require_ the fuel to contain some minimum percentage of alcohol (methanol) in order to remain hot/glowing. The shiny coil of platinum wire found inside those plugs is designed to react catalytically with methanol vapors in order to remain hot between strokes and to initate combustion. Additionally, WD-40 is basically just kerosene with added emulsifiers and other stuff and it has a much higher ignition temperature than alcohol, so it is more difficult to ignite. RC 2-stroke engines aren't actually pure "diesel" compression ignition nor are they pure point source ignition, they are actually kind of a "hybrid" design using elements of both...
I like your job, it's very inspiring
I liked this Christmas present... Merry Christmas from italy
Amazing it can be used to clean the engine as after run oil.
Thanks for Sharing...
The Dogs are pissed at you XD Nice Video! I wanted to add Bio Fuel to my mix, i guess i wont now.
My new favorite channel...!!!
Long ago, I used WD-40 as starting fluid in sparkplug engines. It worked beautifully.
Funny, your dog barks just like mine when I run my engines on crazy fuels..lol. they know when s**t ain't safe!. Also the way I got engines to run on 100% wd-40 is get it started with ether then run it full throttle.
+Warped Perception Hey thanks! I didn't think of it!
JohnnyQ90 yeah I think they know instinctively somehow.
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Very good Johnny. The only issue that I saw with wd40 was that the carburettor seals expanded.
Excellent!!! Great thanks for your idea!!!
Neat demo! Quick question (not knowing very much about these little engines) - what's the purpose of the tube going from what looks like the exhaust muffler to the fuel tank cap? Is it to pressurize the fuel tank slightly or something? And, have a great Christmas!
Lindsay Wilson -Yes. The fuel line going from the pipe to the tank is the back pressure line. It uses exhaust pulses from the expansion chamber to pressurize the fuel tank, in order for the fuel to get "pushed" into the carburetor. Also, Merry Christmas :)
Lindsay Wilson Yes, the presure It pushes the fuel out of the tank and into the engine.
Lindsay Wilson back pressure in to the tank
its the pump
@@martinoffi9249 What is the thing name?
Euro 1 release
.. Fantastic work
We use to use it (wd-40) in are dirt bike carbs for cold starts similar effect to ether. Just less kick.
Most expensive RC fuel in the world?!
I want to see the 50/50 formula on an actual car engine and see if it functions just as well as the Nitro Engine.
It's interesting to see what the exhaust is doing to the matt next to the engine.
thank you for risking you engine for us man, we really appreciate your sacrifice.
try with zippo lighter fuel.. with some percentage of 2t oil it runs
This reminds me I wanted to try to feed oil to my little russian diesel..
I remember some guys used to run glow engines with synthetic oils, but it was destroying the chrome cover. Back then those small engines were super expensive for us, so we stayed with castor oil and had to clean that mess after each flight. Oh memories.
Merry Chrysler
It smoked a nice awsome smoke!
I would like to see this revisited with other fuels, and perhaps different glow plugs. A hotter burning plug might be able to light WD40 off where this stock plug failed to do so. And I'd like to see a gas/oil mix shoved down its throat. Maybe a kerosene/oil mix. Straight kerosene? Kero/diesel blend? There's a myriad of things one might conceivably try to feed one of these engines given how pricey their proper fuel gets and it'd be interesting to see what combos would even run. I'm...not in a position to risk either of mine in the name of science, though.
Nitro engines rely on the catalytic reaction between methanol (ethanol also works apparently) and the platinum glow-plug wire to keep the plug hot, so some amount of alcohol needs to be present for the engine to work. The engine also needs oil to keep it lubricated, so straight kero is probably a bad idea.
It'd probably run on a mixture of methylated spirits and castor oil, if you were prepared to spend some time tuning it. I know a lot of people omit the nitromethane entirely on larger engines and run a simple methanol/oil mix. Or you could get a spark ignition kit and use the same 2-stroke fuel you put in you chainsaw!
Mm, I knew they had a catalytic reaction going on to keep them running(See my other comments in another tree down below), but it'd been a while so I was hazy on exactly what reacted with what to keep the plug lit. Thing is, if you're supplying electrical power to the plug, you no longer need that catalytic reaction to keep it lit, and that allows the plug to ignite any fuel that will atomize well enough to be brought to auto-ignition when it comes into contact with the cherry red filament.
As for spark ignition...Team Losi and HPI Racing both sell 1/8th monster trucks where they did exactly that to create an offering running on pump gas. The Losi one even seems to make about as much power as ye olde glow, certainly sounds the same. 0.31CID for the Losi motor IIRC, slide carb, normal big block glow car engine construction but they're running spark ignition and gasoline instead of glow fuel.
I guess constantly heating the plug works. Carrying an extra battery and the glow plug heater on a model plane would be a bit of a pain though.
For purposes of making a YT video showing if the engine will even attempt to burn a fuel I'd just use a USB phone charger plugged into an extension cord, with a VReg stepping the 5VDC down to 1.5VDC so the plug doesn't burn up in an instant.
Even if the pricey costs of the proper nitro methane fuel when it could be as bad as av gas when those believe the tests would be conducted by those willing to give up their nitro methane engine for science even if those would be willing to try a nitro methane/diesel mix or a kerosene/diesel mix.
Hay Banging mate'..!! 👌
At list the engine is properly lubricated.. lol
Thanks for sharing 👍
Feliz ano Novo à todos e parabéns ao WD40 😀
Well it's nice and clean now
Merry Christmas
Man, that must have smelled wonderful
Could you please test it with other flammable liquids?
NICE CHRISTMAS GIFT
I'm a bit surprised that it didn't start on 100% WD40, but it is no surprise that it wont run without the glow battery. The glow plug normally stays hot due to a catalytic reaction with the methanol in the glow fuel. No methanol, no sustained glow.
OMG a Nitro Video!
I have a TH-cam channel about cars and I only like to subscribe to car channels, but boy your channel is awesome and interesting Love it subscribed you should have millions of subscribers.
u should make a video running starter fluid, and if u are able to see if different mix ratios will up the horsepower and rpms.. there is no nitro motor videos on here running quickstart at all and seems like something u would want to try
Who would have thought ha!
That it wasmt wd40 that was running the engine but the nitro mixed with the wd40
@@Diesr ok
would like to see you make a nitro generator the nitro pump was so cool
Interesting vid:) where'd you get this engine from?
Nitro engines rely on the tendency of methanol to react with the platinum plug on the top. No methanol means no combustion.
LOL, At least it got cleaned!
Well that was interesting...
Wahoo fantastic brother 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 thanks for sharing 👍 👍 👍 👍
Great video 👍🏼 next time please try seafoam or some other fuel cleaner
Mix gasoline + methanol works well or straight gasoline with G5 glow plug (with oil ofcourse).
TESTED?
For the pure WD-40, maybe pre-load the line with nitro fuel so it has some to start on and see if it'll keep running when the nitro runs out. It probably won't, but that would give it the best chance.
Is that Uppermost I hear playing in the background?
Feliz Navidad !!!!
prospero ano e felicidad
Its y felicidad but ok
Judah Alexander is in portuguese ;)
Lucas Azumi: are you saying that it is portigeze ? And if you are you are wrong felis navidad is
Spanish
Judah Alexander Yes it's "portigeze" , and in spanish is "Feliz Navidad" not felis , you speak spanish?
I sometimes use wd40 as a healthy start spray for these engines or run it on the stuff strait when I'm out of nitro
How was the performance when you used the 50 50 mix of the wd40 and the nitro?
Insane lubing engine in a nitro engine you could put a little of wd 40 to lug the engige while it’s running which would work
ive done this but on a petrol engine, smells amazing haha
Nice video , what was the back playing music
wait? So a nitro engine is just a mini 2 stroke?
prival fang its a small engine that runs on nitro. There are 4 stroke ones as well but are more expensive
In theory with nitro being more of an oil than petrol due to what it contains and the fact the engines use glow plugs, you could say it’s a mini 2 stroke diesel engine
@@Jack-ns5zc I would put diesel in quotes, because its a mixture of a catalytic reaction between the platinum coating on the glow plug wiring, and the methanol in the nitro fuel, and compression so kinda "diesel".
Very nicely ✅
where do you get all these kyosho GX12 engines from?
Why did TH-cam recommend this now! I have always wondered if wd40 could run a nitro!
Pls run the engine in acetone, ethanol and some others mixtures. Greetings from Mexico.
question: have you try to restart it with nitro after? (thx for your video)
Good video
Cool! I geuss it's because the high compression ratio. You never end to amaze me Johnny!
these are actually pretty low compression. the glow plug uses a platinum wire which acts as a catalyst, when it's hot it reacts with the methanol in the fuel to start combustion. as the engine runs faster, the wire gets hotter, effectively advancing the ignition timing. the nitromethane is there as a power booster.
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Do you have to oil the machine lol, nice work :D
This is actually a really good way of cleaning inside the engine
You should make a little nitro engine phone charger, always wanted to but can't justify the cost of the engine and dynamo/alternator
Bon a savoir,merci pour l astuce,verry good
Show de bola qual a porcentagem devo usar para um motor super tigre 61?
Hank hill's second favorite thing to use
Mix zippo fuel and a oil. and run your nitro engine
Nah. You do that to your nitro engine.
Did you let it evaporate a little before combining it with Nitro?
Do a video on it with running it on 2 stroke gas
I found out how flammable WD40 is when I was freeing off a seized caravan handbrake down in an inspection pit & accidentally set fire to the foreman’s beard. Fortunately jobs were easier to find back then.
Who has a nitro rc car should like his video! (Buggies, truggies, road cars, monster trucks...)
if u had a hot glow plug I think that it would run fine
So interesting video
Try toluene with a little diesel added.
with the WD-40 being really non flammable...combustion slows down...also means your carb is about 35% to rich.....
thats probably a manufacturer setting just to make sure that things don't get too lean and burn your little motor up ,but if you ran it leaner and then mix a tiny bit of decent 2-stroke oil mix in there I'd say you probably get more RPM out of it , the engine would last longer and you'd have more power...
do they even make jetting kits for those little carbs?
in the 80's we used to use WD40 as an afterrun to chase the alcohol out of the motor. It would burn on 100% wd 40 with an electric starter. Changing times made people believe that this was harming the engines. Not sure if that was true or not but fewer and fewer people were using this process as time went on. Maybe it depends on cylinder construction? Many people wanted to have a castor film left in the engine for long term storage. The WD 40 would take some of that out too.
I just use the after run oil after running the engine dry before storing them for any duration. WD was fine, but too much of it would leave a sludge in the engine. I still use WD40 to clean the air filters though. Gets them nice and white like new.
When those conducted an experiment as to what it would take to run a nitro methane engine on WD-40 when the border line was 75% WD-40 to 25% nitro methane as it wouldn't even start on pure WD-40 when the teardown revealed the crankshaft was cleaner while running on the WD-40 mixture.
Did the exhaust fumes smell nice?
In fact, you can start nitro engine on a mixture of gasoline and oil. I'm not kidding, I was shocked. But he stalls without glow igniter. And badly gaining momentum. 40% 2t oil and 95 octane (europe)
It is possible to increase the performance if you tune, replace the glow plug and compression step, so far I did not go
When bashing, and not racing, i tend to add a bit of gasoline to the fuel, since it helps bringing up the temperature. But were talking 10-20% in 25% nitro fuel, so not a whole lot.
It will start or blow the glow plug head off. Glow plugs must have a methyl alcohol catalyst to glow.
Ive always wondered how much it would take to quiet down a nitro engine's exhaust noise
Even the low-noise exhaust pipes take off only like 10 db. I personally am fine with the noise levels but you can try to experiment and see what works.
Ich probierte bei einem 0,8er Cox folgendes: Isopropanol und Feinmechanik-Öl: rannte wie gewohnt!
Cant say it wasn't well lubricated!
try running a harbor freight engine on Multi Purpose Grease
I'm gonna ask this cause I'm possibly that stupid but could you test and see if one of these motors will run on diesel
Nitro is not miscible with petroleum distillates. It just stratifies like oil and water.