| Methanol, basically what model plane fuel is, contains a lubricant that | protects the internals of your engine.
Huh? Methanol is the fuel itself. Nitro is another fuel, but one that uses less air to burn so it makes tuning easier and gives more power. The oil in your fuel, be it castor or synthetic, _that_ is the lubricant.
| Antifreeze doesn't.
Why would you need lubricant in antifreeze? You aren't _running_ your engine in the crock pot, are you?
| And just how would you detect any damage? With the naked eye? Most | of you are likely blind to begin with. Any damage would be | microscopic and would require precision instruments to detect which | none of you could master.
Damage from what? Running in the antifreeze without oil?
If your engine isn't moving, it doesn't need lubrication. And as soon as it does start running, the fuel provides the needed lubrication.
| The crud is on the outside of the engine
Not all of it. And it's the crud inside the engine that you most want to get out, though getting the crud on the outside will help it look better and run cooler.
| so why are you disassembling and soaking it in a crockpot of | antifreeze?
Because they look and run better afterwards.
| A simple common degreaser (like 409) applied to the | outside of the engine (with carb and exhaust covers) and then a hot | bath of water is all that's required to keep it clean.
If that works for you, then more power to you. But others have found antifreeze cooking to often make old engines look and run like new.
If you're religious about using after-run oil and getting all the fuel out of your engine, this sort of cleaning probably isn't needed so often. And it's probably not needed so often if your fuel has synthetic oil rather than castor oil.
| I consider you people a collection of idiots who wil blindly follow | any half-baked advice.
Advice like yours? (Though in this case, your advice isn't really harmful. But that can't be said of all your advice ...)