"Distilling" Coleman Fuel for Cleaner Solvent?

[Blanc]

I've read reports that using Coleman Fuel as an extraction solvent usually ends in a nasty green mess. I hope to avoid that "distilling" the fuel in an apparatus as shown in the picture. It's really a few bowls/pots/cups nestled in each other.

Would evaporating then condensing the solvent leave the rust inhibitor and identification dyes behind? Or does everything get pulled into the mix? Or in other words, will this work to clean up my solvent? I'm unable to go out and get proper naptha at the moment.

 

[lewinii]

personally, i would avoid colemans and use a lighter fluid. i use ronsonol lighter fluid but i hear several fluids can work

 

[benzyme]

well, like naphtha, it's likely a mix of aliphatic hydrocarbons, so you won't 'purify' it
per se. fractional distillation may give you realtively pure fractions of some of the lower boiling components, but that requires a vigreux, or a column with packing (like glass beads or steel mesh)

 

[hekuni]

Hi.

I had an account here I think in 2005 and I forgot my info, I think I called myself blacksheep back then so I signed up under a new name just now.

I posted extensively about coleman gas, it was probably the last thing I posted.

I used it but I distilled it first. The blue dye is heavy and it wont go away. It is added to colemans white gas so that people wont put it in their car gastank.

It is a dye, designed to stain a gas tank forever so that if someone uses it they will ruin their gas tanks and or the engine and it will mark them as adding illegal fuels to their gas. Farms do a similar thing. They often have big tanks of gas for farm machinery but because of the fuel grade, it is only allowed on the farm. If anyone uses it their gas tanks will be stained green forever.

The naphthat distills off the blue crap nicely because it is designed to stay in the tank. If you can distill it, it is good naptha, but so is any distilled naptha.