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It is as I stated, you simply do not just lower the engine oils viscosity when you mix gasoline products in it. Gasoline also acts as a solvent and that includes decreased oil film pressure resistance, like shear stress and tensile stress capabilities. It doesn't reduce wear in the sense that thinned out oil, using gasoline, works as a lower viscosity purpose refined oil, it makes it more fluid. What you do is that you only lower the viscosity but in the same time you alter its characteristics needed for other things besides flow. That's the difference.
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It was good enough for the engineers to include it as the standard winter starting system on all Luftwaffe aircraft.
You can look in Teil 7 of the Flugzeug Handbuch for the FW-190 series for a more complete description.
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Gasoline also acts as a solvent
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Germans did not use natural petroleum fuels.....
Their avgas is more like a light oil with a distinctive burned coal smell to it. We have a few gallons to give White One's cockpit an authentic smell, LOL.