Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BCFD 36 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Novels About Rediscovering Ancient Tech Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 12:38:06 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 21:38:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="228e426d259cf54c46b5d583262f8c58"; logging-data="2456595"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+0jb7WPd9vUiJVjIfs3wI6" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:pDERucuGwWjTxmrNdiKMvvOqszQ= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2916 On 5/16/24 11:18, Michael F. Stemper wrote: > On 15/05/2024 14.03, BCFD 36 wrote: >> On 5/14/24 10:59, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > >>> I was already intrigued by the British TV mini-series _The Last Train_ >>> (1999), where fifty years after the apocalypse our cryo-preserved >>> protagonists can just start up cars still sitting around in garages. >>> No flat batteries there. >> >> Not only flat batteries, but flat gasoline. For those of us who have >> gasoline powered power tools (in my case, weed whacker, lawn mower, >> chainsaw), we have to add Stabil or some other gas preservative if the >> gas is going to sit in a can more than a month or so. Otherwise the >> gas goes "bad". If my chainsaw gas is more than a month or two old and >> has not been treated, it will not start the saw. > > Interesting. I've never added any preservative, yet my chainsaw always > started, > even when I went a year or more between uses. Just out of curiosity, did > your > saw require a gas-oil mix as mine did? Maybe the oil acted as a > preservative > for the gas. > My chainsaw and weed wacker (both Stihl) are 2 cycle engines so run on "mix", a 50:1 mixture of gasoline to chainsaw oil. Every saw I have owned, and the saws down at the fire department were all pretty finicky about the gasoline... it had to be somewhat fresh. There is nothing like standing on a roof in the rain at night with the intention of cutting a vent, and the saw won't start. Later someone puts fresh mix in it and it fires right up. ARRRGGGGGH! -- ---------------- Dave Scruggs Senior Software Engineer - Lockheed Martin, et. al (mostly Retired) Captain - Boulder Creek Fire (Retired) Board of Directors - Boulder Creek Fire Protection District (What was I thinking?)