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Doug Miller typed:
On 11/11/2011 9:48 PM, Home Guy wrote:
bob haller wrote:

the small engine companies should be required to
redesgn their products to use high ethanol content
fuel. just like they did to run on unleaded fuel

But it's not the ethanol that's the problem - it's the
water in the tank (supposedly according to the OP).

I thought that most small engines have a fine mesh
screen (steel or nylon / plastic?) either in the tank or
somewhere in the fuel line that is too fine to allow
water to pass through. ?

Good luck with that one. Water molecules are pretty
small, far smaller than hexane and heptane molecules
(which are the principal constituents of gasoline). Any filter that is too
fine to let a water
molecule through sure as heck isn't going to let gasoline or
ethanol through either.

Yes. It is. Check viscosity & molecular responses to the screen materials.