Sea Foam. Now I'm a believer
Hope this is an acceptable topic for Tech issues. I have read on these forums for years about the praise others have bestowed on Sea Foam gasoline additive. I never tried it until recently in my Ho...
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JaxDad wrote:Sam Spade wrote:JaxDad wrote:Kayteg1 wrote:
Seafoam is 90+percent kerosene, so don't use it blindly.
That's an urban myth centred around the fact it is 90 percent "petroleum distillates".
It is however 50 percent Pale Oil which naphthenic mineral oil. Different stuff that does a different job.
It is not a myth, however, that SeaFoam is about 90 percent profit for the company that makes it.
There are much better cleaning products on the market; Berrymans B12 Chemtool and Gumout are but two. They cost about 1/3 of the inflated price of SeaFoam too.
SeaFoam was created as a marine fuel stabilizer. Coincidentally, it is a good light duty fuel system cleaner too. I think that any and all of the other claims made for it easily fall into the "snake oil" category......including removing carbon which is often best just left alone.
But if you already have a problem due to fuel system deposits, B12 will do a MUCH better job of removing them. That is not a myth.
So then if price is a benchmark by which stuff is measured than a Hyundai is a far better car than a Mercedes because it's 1/3rd the price?
As for B12, read the MSDS (Berryman's B12 MSDS) and you will see that it is; 40 - 50% Toluene, 20 - 25% Acetone, and 20 - 25% Methanol.
Paint thinner and alcohol, no mystery there, and even more ridiculously over-priced for so much hardware store stuff.
Just as general info, based on the above "inflated price" comment, and because someone asked me, I looked up the RETAIL prices based on the above Toluene / Acetone / Methanol recipe from products listed for sale on Amazon, here's what I found.
Toluene $$32.20 / gallon, $16.10 / half gallon
Methanol $13.78 / gallon, $3.45 / quarter gallon
Acetone $29.56 / gallon, $7.39 / quarter gallon
So that is $26.94 / gallon to make up the 'recipe' shown above.
Amazon also lists Berryman's B12 Chemtool 15 oz. can $5.81 or $49.58 / gallon.
So if you can brew it yourself at retail prices for about half the cost I'm pretty sure there's some pretty handsome profits in the real McCoy for the company that makes it too.
