Most FS sells ethanol free gas, thayre mostly unattended pay at pumps. negligible price difference
On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: > Use gas without ethanol either from the pump if available or in metal 1gal > cans from the hardware store, should store for years. > > On Sun, Jan 5, 2025, 9:22 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > >> What do you folks do with your portable gasoline generators to avoid >> stale fuel problems? >> >> >> >> I’m talking 1000-2400 VA generators that you take out to a tower site >> when there’s a power shortage. And when power comes back on, there could >> be from zero to a full tank of gas in the generator, and it could be a week >> or a year before you use it again. >> >> >> >> I have a couple Honda inverter type generators, and I’m bad about just >> taking them back to the shop and letting them sit until next time I need >> them. They’ve always started. I think it helps that the Hondas have a >> fuel shutoff valve between the tank and the carburetor, and also a shutoff >> for the fuel cap vent. I also suspect the Hondas actually pump fuel from >> the tank to the float bowl rather than gravity feed but I’m not sure about >> that. I don’t however drain the carburetor after use, and in Illinois you >> can’t by E0 pump gas. It has to be E10, unless you buy outrageously >> expensive gas in cans like TruFuel. I guess we have to put lousy gas in >> our small engines to help the farmers sell their corn. >> >> >> >> Should I be emptying the fuel tank after every use? Am I OK to leave gas >> in the generator if I add Sta-Bil to the gas in the can I use to fill the >> generator? Should I fill the generator to the top before storing it rather >> than leave it half full? >> >> >> >> Or am I overthinking this? I know I left about an inch of gas in my >> snowblower tank after last winter and it really didn’t want to start this >> year. I pumped out the fuel tank, refilled it with TruFuel, drained the >> float bowl several times, finally got it to start but it ran like crap for >> 2-3 minutes. I think it wasn’t varnish but water in the gas from the >> alcohol pulling moisture out of the air, but I’m not sure. >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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