On Sat, 2 May 2009 07:54:21 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

I've heard of ethanol attacking the resin in fiberglass fuel tanks but not
plastic.
If it attacks plastic, there is going to be a lot of spare fuel containers
developing leaks.

Methanol does not attack the polyethylene fuel jugs all the racers
use. I have it on good authority that uncut 170 proof moon does not
attack it either. They sell 95% ethanol in plastic bottles at liquor
stores. Actually, plastic is a property not a material. Steel is
plastic, cast iron and glass are not. It means able to be perminently
deformed without breaking. Opposite of brittle. Fiberglass reinforced
plastic, so called, is as brittle as the two brittle materials it is
made of. As for plastic fuel containers, it they resist gasoline, they
will resist alcohol. Alcohol attacks aluminum, for example.

Casady

Casady