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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Novels About Rediscovering Ancient Tech
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 12:38:06 -0700
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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!
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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?)