On 10/25/2011 6:35 PM, Cheeseball wrote:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home...nd-tear-of-e10


Repairman and small-business owner Rich Herder doesn't mince words about
the damage ethanol in gasoline is doing to the small engines in outdoor
power equipment. "It's the biggest disaster to hit gasoline in my
lifetime," Herder says. He owns McIntyre's Locksmith & Lawnmower, a
service business in Westfield, N.J. Founded in 1898 to refurbish
saddles, the business today repairs more than 5000 machines a
year—mostly pieces of outdoor power equipment, and many of them,
according to Herder, damaged by the alcohol in today's gasoline, known
as E10 for the 10 percent of alcohol it contains.


And i've never had a bit of problem with it. My chainsaws are 20+ years
old and my weedeater and blower are 5 years old. Never had a second of
problem with any of them. Oh, wait, I did replace the fuel pickup hose
on ONE of the chain saws. Dam! A $2 repair in 20 years.


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Steve Barker
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