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geoff wrote:
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geoff wrote:
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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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