Tin-antimony keeps petrol & diesel engines permanently clean - that's why the manufacturers don't use it

In 1942, the American motor industry discovered the tin-antimony pellets, used in the fuel tanks of British and Russian* fighter planes, caused petrol and diesel fuels to self-clean as they combusted: eliminating carbon deposits and keeping engines permanently clean and running like new. They knew this would put a huge dent in profits from spares, repairs and engine decokes. And could even slow new car sales. But for the fuel additive companies, with their dispenser cans at every fuel pump, the little pellets spelt complete disaster. So they started a smear campaign. And motoring's biggest lie was born.

Along with snake oil slurs and stories of exploding engines, the logical fallacy** 'if they were that good the manufacturers would fit them' was circulated through the motor trade. It wasn't long before motorists were repeating the propaganda circulated to fool them! Over the last 80-years, motoring's biggest lie has been repeated so many times, especially in the UK, many have come to believe it. With misleading press, straw man tests and deceptive reviews repeatedly used to suppress the truth. 

In commercial use for over 60-years

Tin-antimony alloy was first used in South Africa during the 1960s, to keep emissions low from Anglo American's underground mining vehicles. It was then used by SAF Marine, in their container ships to prevent fuel wastage, cut black smoke and extend service intervals. Over the next 30-years, as independent tests continually confirmed the alloy's ability, its popularity with commercial operators and domestic vehicle owners steadily increased. And it remains in use in mining, marine and industrial applications today.

Following the results of the ECS fleet trial in Philadelphia, the US military conducted extensive testing at Camp Pendleton and the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center. In 2003, the Senate Committee on Armed Services announced the results in Congress, with the recommendation that Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, take immediate steps for the application of this simple technology.***

Why catalysts work so well in modern vehicles

The reason we don't notice carbon deposits building up in modern vehicles, is because, as they increase the engine control unit (ECU) retards the ignition timing to prevent overheating, pinking and knock. But this has a negative impact on combustion efficiency: reducing the engines performance and fuel economy, and increasing exhaust emissions. This leads to the soot deposits that clog DPFs, EGRs, CATs. Removing carbon deposits, reduces the temperature, restores combustion efficiency and allows the ECU to progressively re advance and reset the ignition timing.

The motor industry's own World Wide Fuel Charter clearly states, even the use of high-quality fuel leads to deposit formation, affecting engine performance and increasing engine-out emissions. And the Society of Automotive Engineers confirms, carbon deposits affect all petrol and diesel engines, causing reduced power, reduced fuel economy and excess emissions. Which is why carbon deposits are the root cause of the excess traffic pollution that ruins the air quality for hundreds of millions of people in towns and cities worldwide.

The proven effectiveness of tin-antimony

The significant improvements reported by FTC customers, are simply the result of carbon deposit removal. Like big-brand fuel additives, tin-antimony can't produce results in a clean engine, where there's no carbon to remove. In a new vehicle, or one with a clean engine, tin-antimony simply stops deposits from forming. Which simply means performance, economy and emissions, all remain the same as a brand-new engine. 

For over 60-years, the alloy's effectiveness has been easily demonstrated using industry-standard before & after emissions results. The same way all fuel additives are tested. But whilst a single proprietary test in a static engine is sufficient for the fuel additive companies, special interests insist the same, equal standard doesn't apply to an alloy! Especially one that makes liquid additives obsolete!!

However, in addition to independent Department for Transport test certification, FTC has been independently tested by industry-leaders Emissions Analytics Ltd, using the same real-world emissions measurement system used in the VW emissions scandal.

The first tin-antimony pellets

Tin-antimony pellets were developed by Russian scientists in 1941, for use in the fuel tanks of Hurricane and Yak fighter planes operating out of Murmansk on the Russian front during WW2. Low temperature waxing in the local aviation fuel, was causing crystalline deposits to clog carburettors, leading to engines cutting out and mid-air stalling. The planes were restricted to 16,000 ft until a solution could be found. When the tin-antimony pellets were added to the fuel tanks, the planes were able to operate over and above their usual ceiling of 20,000 ft with exactly the same fuel.

*The WW2 campaign, code named 'Operation Benedict' is recorded in Hurricanes Over Murmansk by John Golley  ISBN 1840372982 and in Force Benedict by Hurricane fighter pilot Eric Carter  ISBN 1444785141 - who details the pellets wartime use and post-war development. Pages 129-131, 256-257

**Logical fallacies are flaws in an argument that make it logically unsound, even if the premise or conclusion appears convincing. These tricks or illusions of thought are used by propagandists and sophists (those skilled in the art of false reasoning) to manipulate audiences by bypassing critical thinking.

*** 107^th Congress  2^nd Session  House of Representatives  Report 107-436  Pages 292-293