What's in this bottle?

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro) 06/21/2018 at 23:00 • Filed to: chemicalopnik, additives

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And is there any chance that it’s still good?

Found this old bottle (approx. 12 oz.) missing most of its label in the garage. Despite its age (at least a couple of decades old by now, I’ll bet), the foil seal is intact. There are no signs of leakage but it does seem to be swelling a little...

There are just a few scraps of the old label still clinging to the bottle. Unfortunately, there’s not enough of the bar code left to read. (Sorry about the mess- I’m afraid to clean it off quite yet, for fear of losing more of the label.)

But in one corner it says “STOCK NO. 119KM-12P”. Alas, my google-fu is turning up nothing for a quick & easy product ID.

That leaves us with just a few hints to go by. What’s left of the front label is quite faded, but seems to have been composed primarily (no pun intended) of the colors red and yellow. (Sta-Bil?)

Among the warnings on the rear of the label, it mentions ...“HYL ALCOHOL (M”.... which leads me to believe that it’s not trying to say ethyl alcohol , but probably methyl alcohol (methanol) . Could this be an old bottle of HEET?

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

I’d feel better if I could find a picture of a vintage bottle that was a perfect match to help fill in the blanks, but do you think I have enough clues already? Is there anything else that could be in there, and should I have any reservations about dumping it into my fuel tank (if for no other reason than to easily dispose of this mystery bottle’s contents)?

His Stigness > Urambo Tauro 06/21/2018 at 18:04

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Did you taste it to figure out what fluid it was?

Urambo Tauro > His Stigness 06/21/2018 at 18:05

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Not yet! (Eh, I wouldn’t recognize the taste if I tried anyway...)

E90M3 > Urambo Tauro 06/21/2018 at 18:08

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Do I look like a chemical engineer or something? 

Urambo Tauro > E90M3 06/21/2018 at 18:09

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No but u smell like one.

BeaterGT > Urambo Tauro 06/21/2018 at 18:09

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Borsuq would use it.

E90M3 > Urambo Tauro 06/21/2018 at 18:09

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Oh so that’s what that smell is. 

Cé hé sin > Urambo Tauro 06/21/2018 at 18:12

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Drink it and see. R eport back.

F ailure to report back would itself be informative.

Urambo Tauro > Cé hé sin 06/21/2018 at 18:16

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I only drink the grape stuff.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Urambo Tauro 06/21/2018 at 18:47

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That looks to me like it might be an old redline oil bottle of some kind, maybe a fuel additive based on the warning . For disposal, I’d dump it in with my used oil before I’d put an unknown  compound in the fuel tank.

XJDano > Urambo Tauro 06/21/2018 at 19:16

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STP was white bottles, right. What is STP? Besides sponsoring #43.

Some type of fuel injector or system cleaner? 

Urambo Tauro > XJDano 06/21/2018 at 19:43

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Yeah, the bottle shape really has me leaning towards it being some sort of fuel additive.

Urambo Tauro > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 06/21/2018 at 19:44

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Or dilute it over several lawnmower tankfuls.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Urambo Tauro 06/21/2018 at 22:01

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I was going to guess injector cleaner.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > XJDano 06/23/2018 at 16:38

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All I know is that it’s the racer’s edge.

Steve > Urambo Tauro 06/24/2018 at 08:59

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Looks like a dry gas bottle to me?

Isopropyl alcohol to remove water from your fuel. Long skinny end is so you can pour it in you gas tank.

Urambo Tauro > Steve 06/24/2018 at 11:39

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Yeah, probably dry gas. It’s definitely got the right bottle shape. If this is indeed “HEET”, I’m thinking that based on what’s left of the label, it’s probably the yellow bottle stuff (methyl alcohol), not the red bottle “Iso-HEET” stuff (isopropyl alcohol). Haven’t opened it yet, but once I do, I’m not sure how I would tell one from the other, though.