In message , Clot
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geoff wrote:
In message , Clot
writes
geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying
around, should that be OK ?

When are you most likely to use it? Power outage in the winter and
wishing to run a critical unit? Might be a bugger to start. For the
amount of oil involved, I think I would spend the pennies on some
10/30. It really depends upon the intended use, I guess.


I was more thinking that for running it in, if I change the oil after
8 hours for initial bedding in crud removal, what I have sitting on
the shelf would be adequate

If I read you right, what you are intending is to use SAE20 for running in
and then go to 10/30? Do you think you need to "run it in". I have to
confess I do not know about light engines these days.


Yeah, it's just a cheap and nasty one from Costco and the manual does
mention running it in

Just had my knuckled rapped for even thinking of using fork oil in UKRM,
so I'd better get some engine oil tomorrow

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geoff