Paul,
Want to buy a bridge in Brooklyn?
See my opinions below :-)
Bill Schertz
KIS Cruiser # 4045

This is one of the few magic gas savers that sounds plausible.
I am no chemist but, as I understand it, platinum is a catalyst
and as such is not actually consumed in the burning of fuel.

True, but if you are 'injecting' the platinum into the air fuel mixture, it
is going out the tail pipe.

Platinum spark plugs seem to have worth and platinum catalytic
converters work for sure to reduce hydrocarbon emissions.

I think Platinum is used on spark plugs to increase lifetime, the catalytic
effect must be miniscule. On a converter, the platinum is fixed in place, is
not consumed, and can work continuously once it is up to temperature.

If this works maybe platinum coated rotors would help.

Very little surface area on the rotor, compared to a catalytic converter.
The mixture must come into contact with the platinum to have an effect.

Seems to me the mixture must be leaned to take advantage
of this. More fuel burned in the combustion chamber... more
air must be introduced.

However platinum is around $900 an ounce.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

You got to be kidding me. I had an uncle that back in the '50s ran ads and
sold lead sinkers to drop in gas tanks to supposedly plate out on worn rings
and cylinders. People actually bought those things. I don't think he told
them what they were before he repackaged them; but, some of those folks
swore up and down they worked. Maybe we now can platinum plate these self
same sinkers and sell them too. Just dropping a couple in the fuel tank
would have to be a lot easier, cheaper and a heck of a lot more profitable
than pulling the engine down every so often and replating the rotors.
jofarr, soddy tn



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