On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:28:03 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:53:21 -0500, Wes
wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:

Has anyone does this? Does it make sense?

It makes perfect sense if you accept gasoline as payment.

These days, that might actually be the smart thing to do. ;-D

Stuff doesn't store well. IIRC, the ethanol makes it deteriorate even quicker than
straight gasoline.

I hear all these horror stories about bad gas, but I've almost never
had any go bad. I've stored cans for a couple years and used them in
the mower without trouble. I prime and start it the first time, every
time (except that second year with my newest mower and I followed the
instruction instead of my head and didn't prime the **** out of it
until it started.)

The only time I've had any trouble with gas is when it sat for 5+
years in an unused tool's tank and carb, especially 2-strokes, where
the oil turns to thick grease.

Same here. I don't treat the lawnmower or chainsaw gas and have no
problems with gas at least 2 years old. The only time I had a problem
was with a '65 Volvo that a friend gave me around 1977. I don't know
how long it had sat before I started fixing it up, but it wouldn't do
a thing with the gas left in the tank, and purred to life with fresh
gas.

Anything really suspect goes in the '53 Farmall Super A snowplow --
it'd probably run on olive oil if it was warmed up first. g

--
Ned Simmons