[Shop-talk] non ethanol fuel alternative

[Scott]

If John's not doing that, I second that suggestion.  But I'll note that 
I do that for all my stuff too, and some of it seems to have internal 
components that don't play nice with even the film left there, or don't 
like ever coming into contact with it at all, or the gas and/or 
additives are particularly nasty sometimes.  The fuel lines on old 
string trimmer I had disintegrated or gummed up at slightest 
provocation, and the blower's jets forever had gunk in them, I suspect 
from something upstream doing the same thing as the string trimmer.  I 
used to have a mower like that too.

That trick seems to work on my new blower and trimmer, though.  The new 
mower I don't run dry, but it doesn't get enough time off for anything 
nasty to happen in the fuel system, I think.

On 1/10/2012 9:50 AM, Doug Braun wrote:
> When done mowing, turn off the fuel shutoff valve and let the carb run dry.
> If there is no fuel shutoff valve, install one!