Re: [AFMUG] gas for portable generators

2025-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
I did an online search for an Illinois law requiring at least 10% ethanol and couldn’t find one. Yet there is reportedly not a single gas pump in the state with ethanol free gas. So it must be due to economic incentives. From: AF On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Monday, January 6, 2025 4:33 P

Re: [AFMUG] gas for portable generators

2025-01-06 Thread Steve Jones
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 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

Re: [AFMUG] gas for portable generators

2025-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
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

Re: [AFMUG] gas for portable generators

2025-01-06 Thread Nate Burke
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?  L

Re: [AFMUG] gas for portable generators

2025-01-06 Thread chuck
You can remove ethanol by adding water, mixing and then draining the water. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2025 10:21 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: [AFMUG] gas for portable generators What do you folks do with your portable gasoline generators to avoid stale

Re: [AFMUG] gas for portable generators

2025-01-06 Thread Steve Jones
stabil or sea foam for gas at home,we use the old fuel in the mowers and get the clean gad feom fs at work we converted to propane across the board, eliminated the gas issue all together. when we had gas, one of the installers had it on their schedule monthly to run all the generators for an ho

Re: [AFMUG] gas for portable generators

2025-01-06 Thread TJ Trout
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 wrote: > What do you folks do with your portable gasoline generators to avoid stale > fuel problems? > > > > I’m talking 1000-2