I'm not sure you can revive flat gas. But, who knows?

I like name brand gas. Mobil seems to last a bit longer than the
discount brands. Stabil and Pri G are supposed to help. Do they?
I don't know for sure.

A hearty congratulations for running your generator every month.
I know I should, but I do not. I know what you mean about doing
this in the dark. Hint: Buy a battery power head lamp. Worth
every penny when you are working and it's dark and you need to
see. I own and use several strap on head lamps.

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Christopher A. Young
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You have to starve them.
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"Toller" wrote in message
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I have a 4 year old Honda EU2000i with about 200 hours of use.
I have done
the proper maintenance on it.
I leave it with gas and gas stabilizer, and start it up for 5
minutes once a
month. When it gets hard to start I change the gas; that is
about once a
year.

Tonight we had 2 brief power losses, and since it is 5 degrees
out, I
thought it would be a good idea to warm up the generator. It
wouldn't
start. I brought it in the house for a half hour, but that
didn't help. I
changed the gas; that did the trick. As I understand it, the
most volatile
parts of the gas evaporate, leaving something behind that is
inadequate to
start the engine; is that correct? Is there anything I could
add to the old
gas to revive it? Everything worked out fine (no outage so
far, and the
generator finally started) but I would hate to have to do this
in the dark
during a real outage. (I mean, besides changing the gas more
often...)

Thanks.