Interesting, FS has pumps by the grain elevator here in Waterman about 1 mile from where I’m at right now. I’ll have to check. I thought it was a state law, but maybe they are exempt because it’s for ag use? Like the untaxed diesel that you’re not supposed to put in your truck?
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Monday, January 6, 2025 2:15 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] gas for portable generators 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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