We get all our Ethanol free gas from FS.
On 1/6/2025 3:19 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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> 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.
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