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Jeffrey Angus

On 9/27/2010 6:44 PM, wrote:
Jeffrey Angus wrote:

Running swill like Arco gas through it will certainly cause any
soft parts to degrade and need replacement a lot sooner.

Jeff

So which gas is _not _ swill in your humble opinion? I only ask
because I've been running Arco for 25 years.

The problem is the oxygenation (and other additives). It seriously
kills the soft rubber parts like the pickup tube to the filter
element in chainsaws and other small 2-cycle engines. It's not
quite as problematic in 4-cycle engines other than the rubber lines
and primer bulbs if they have them

The other problem is usage. Unlike automobiles, most power tools
sit idle for weeks at a time.

What I told people to use when working as a service tech at the
Yamada Co. was either Exon, Mobile (now the same) or Chevron.
And to spring for premium. You're engine runs better and stays
cleaner inside.

Also, premix the CORRECT amount of Stabile(tm) in a 1-5 gallon
fuel can. As others poited out, too much is worse than none.

And NEVER let your friends borrow a chainsaw. I saw it over and
over, "But we only had one more cut when we ran out of gas so..."
(We welded the piston into the engine.)

Jeff
The other other one.