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On 5/17/2024 3:38 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:
> 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!

This is why my chainsaw, weedwacker, leafblower, etc, are all battery
powered - I don't have your requirements, and these work just find for
me.

The only gas engined devices in my house are the lawn tractor and snow
blower, and they're four cycle.

pt