[SFDXA] Gasoline and E10

[Bill]

Always use "SeaFoam" in your gas in your small gasoline motors. It 
solves long term storage issues with gas. Engines run cleaner as well 
including your car. Another product called StaBile is similar but I 
prefer SeaFoam.
Bill W2CQ




On 11/16/2017 10:06 PM, Pete Rimmel N8PR wrote:
>> From a friend in Ohio...  Watch what fuel you use with your generators !
>
> --WAKE UP CALL--
>
> At a DXer's group meeting a couple of weeks ago a story was told by an 
> owner
> of a Honda gas-powered generator. I understood he meant this occurred in
> less than a year after purchasing the unit. While it had been test-run 
> every
> so often, the engine seemed to have carburation issues. When the 
> engine was
> serviced, the owner was shown that decomposition of the E10 fuel had 
> plugged
> things up.
>
> So I did some checking around.  At this URL link you can read the 
> story of
> how E10 gasoline degrades over only three months. In vehicles that are
> driven often, the tank is refilled often enough. But a generator or 
> mower or
> blower or snow blower in storage a long time can have a problem. What is
> needed is gasoline without ethanol. If there is a trace of water in the
> fuel, there are more problems.
>
> http://www.fuel-testers.com/expiration_of_ethanol_gas.html
>
> All this might explain why my snow blower was so hard to start the winter
> after I bought it.
>
> --- MORE ---
>
> So in this Web site:
>
> https://www.pure-gas.org/station?station_id=14738
>
> you can see the KML file link (click on "KML")  for the file 
> "pure-gas.kml"
> .
>
> If you have Google Earth on your computer, you can just download that 
> file
> and click on it to see a map of the lower 48 states (at least) with 
> little
> pushpins.  Zoom in and you can see where the gas stations around NE oHio
> have 100% gasoline. They aren't really all that close together.
>
> One of them (mentioned at the meeting cited above) is located on the west
> side of Prospect Rd near Westwood in Strongsville, at the railroad 
> tracks, a
> Marathon station, with 100% gas in pump 14.  ( Now the KML file may point
> you to the northeast. You have to turn around 180 degrees and go 
> across the
> street.)
>
> The local GPS-useful address for that Marathon station (at "Cuyahoga
> Landmark") is
>
> 12966 Prospect Rd, Strongsville OH
>
> Well, today I went to that Marathon station and bought 5 gallons of 
> pure gas
> for my equipment. (No credit card reader!)  Tests with some running
> equipment will happen soon. Now I have good gas for my generator in 
> case of
> bad weather this winter.
>
> --73, Glenn, AF8C
>
>
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