I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying around,
should that be OK ?




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geoff

geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying around,
should that be OK ?

When are you most likely to use it? Power outage in the winter and wishing
to run a critical unit? Might be a bugger to start. For the amount of oil
involved, I think I would spend the pennies on some 10/30.

It really depends upon the intended use, I guess.

In message , Clot
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geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying around,
should that be OK ?

When are you most likely to use it? Power outage in the winter and wishing
to run a critical unit? Might be a bugger to start. For the amount of oil
involved, I think I would spend the pennies on some 10/30.

It really depends upon the intended use, I guess.


I was more thinking that for running it in, if I change the oil after 8
hours for initial bedding in crud removal, what I have sitting on the
shelf would be adequate

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geoff

geoff wrote:
In message , Clot
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geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying
around, should that be OK ?

When are you most likely to use it? Power outage in the winter and
wishing to run a critical unit? Might be a bugger to start. For the
amount of oil involved, I think I would spend the pennies on some
10/30. It really depends upon the intended use, I guess.


I was more thinking that for running it in, if I change the oil after
8 hours for initial bedding in crud removal, what I have sitting on
the shelf would be adequate

If I read you right, what you are intending is to use SAE20 for running in
and then go to 10/30? Do you think you need to "run it in". I have to
confess I do not know about light engines these days.

Bought my wife a new 206cc for Christmas in 2006. I was shocked to find that
Peugeot did not require a first service until either 12k miles or two years!
She's only done 5000m in it so far.

I'm of the old school and prefer to have an initial service to remove any
possible crud.

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geoff wrote:
In message , Clot
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geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying
around, should that be OK ?

When are you most likely to use it? Power outage in the winter and
wishing to run a critical unit? Might be a bugger to start. For the
amount of oil involved, I think I would spend the pennies on some
10/30. It really depends upon the intended use, I guess.


I was more thinking that for running it in, if I change the oil after
8 hours for initial bedding in crud removal, what I have sitting on
the shelf would be adequate

If I read you right, what you are intending is to use SAE20 for running in
and then go to 10/30? Do you think you need to "run it in". I have to
confess I do not know about light engines these days.


Yeah, it's just a cheap and nasty one from Costco and the manual does
mention running it in

Just had my knuckled rapped for even thinking of using fork oil in UKRM,
so I'd better get some engine oil tomorrow

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geoff

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geoff wrote:
In message , Clot
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geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying
around, should that be OK ?

When are you most likely to use it? Power outage in the winter and
wishing to run a critical unit? Might be a bugger to start. For the
amount of oil involved, I think I would spend the pennies on some
10/30. It really depends upon the intended use, I guess.


I was more thinking that for running it in, if I change the oil after
8 hours for initial bedding in crud removal, what I have sitting on
the shelf would be adequate

If I read you right, what you are intending is to use SAE20 for running in
and then go to 10/30? Do you think you need to "run it in". I have to
confess I do not know about light engines these days.


Yeah, it's just a cheap and nasty one from Costco and the manual does
mention running it in

Just had my knuckled rapped for even thinking of using fork oil in UKRM,
so I'd better get some engine oil tomorrow

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geoff
I guess Fork Oil is a hydraulic oil - and lacks any engine additives.

geoff wrote:
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geoff wrote:
In message , Clot
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geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying
around, should that be OK ?

When are you most likely to use it? Power outage in the winter and
wishing to run a critical unit? Might be a bugger to start. For the
amount of oil involved, I think I would spend the pennies on some
10/30. It really depends upon the intended use, I guess.


I was more thinking that for running it in, if I change the oil
after 8 hours for initial bedding in crud removal, what I have
sitting on the shelf would be adequate

If I read you right, what you are intending is to use SAE20 for
running in and then go to 10/30? Do you think you need to "run it
in". I have to confess I do not know about light engines these days.


Yeah, it's just a cheap and nasty one from Costco and the manual does
mention running it in

Just had my knuckled rapped for even thinking of using fork oil in
UKRM, so I'd better get some engine oil tomorrow

Cheapskate

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geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil,

Yeah, it's just a cheap and nasty one from Costco and the manual does
mention running it in


i thought all small Costco geneys were 2stroke?

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On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:07:56 +0000, geoff wrote:

In message , Clot
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geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying around,
should that be OK ?

When are you most likely to use it? Power outage in the winter and wishing
to run a critical unit? Might be a bugger to start. For the amount of oil
involved, I think I would spend the pennies on some 10/30.

It really depends upon the intended use, I guess.


I was more thinking that for running it in, if I change the oil after 8
hours for initial bedding in crud removal, what I have sitting on the
shelf would be adequate

I'd have thought that fork oil isn't intended for high-speed engine
lubrication/cooling use. Besides, if you use a non-approved oil any
warranty claim would be very likely contested.
10/30 oil is so cheap that it would be daft to use anything else. Keep
the SAE 20 stuff for the bike. Horses for courses, as they say...

I used to use Duckham's Q 20/50 oil - 7/6d a gallon from the Motorists
Discount Centre locally ...

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Frank Erskine

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:31:50 UTC, Frank Erskine
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I used to use Duckham's Q 20/50 oil - 7/6d a gallon from the Motorists
Discount Centre locally ...

So did I! I said it was obvious it was a detergent oil - just look at
the colour!

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geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying around,
should that be OK ?

I'd say not - specialist oils won't be to the same formulation as engine
ones. There's more to an oil than the viscosity.

Think Halfords had a good brand 10/30 on offer the other day in 5 litre
containers.

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geoff wrote:
I bought a little 900W genny the other week

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying around,
should that be OK ?

I'd say not - specialist oils won't be to the same formulation as engine
ones. There's more to an oil than the viscosity.

Think Halfords had a good brand 10/30 on offer the other day in 5 litre
containers.


it takes 0.4l

I bought a litre of 10/40 for a silly price at the garage on the way to
work this morning

That'll do


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geoff

On 18 Dec, 22:23, geoff wrote:

It says to use 10/30 oil, I've got some SAE 20 fork oil lying around,
should that be OK ?

No, no heat resistance and it will carbon up in no time. As sticky
rings are a big problem for littl engine failures, that's bad.

Use convenient random car (petrol) engine oil. Approximating 10/30 is
good, but it's not going to complain too loudly if it's 10/40.