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Ralph Mowery

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Glad I still have two of the old, pre-EPA cans. I haven't had to use the
new ones, but I see lots of people reporting problems. This sounds like
where the EPA screwed us with the new carbs on small engines where you
can't adjust them. The tree huggers figure that we're all stupid and just
want to make our engines run rough and spew more emissions. So, they locked
them. Now when the engines run rough, spew more emissions and we can't turn
the simple screw to fix it. Thank you EPA. I had a Sears leaf blower,
I used it for ten years on half choke because of that.Ran better on half
than no choke, but I'm sure it was spewing more emissions than if i could
have turned that screw....

I have 3 of the older 5 gallon cans and 1 one gallon can for the gas/oil
mix. Have one of the newer 1 galllon cans for a different gas/oil mix
and spill more gas out of it for the weed eater and leaf blower than aoo
the others combined.

Some of the carbs on the newer small gngines I haave can be adjusted,
but you have to have a special tool. I could not buy the tool I needed
for one of them, so I took out the adjustment screw and cut a slot in it
with my Dremmal tool.