Subj : Re: Lawn Equipment
To   : ROBERT SAYRE
From : JIM HOLSONBACK
Date : Fri Jun 29 2001 06:10 pm

Hello, Robert.

 JH> Most of this old equip. calls for 32:1 mix gas to oil.  Nowadays
 JH> at places like Home Depot and Lowes,  the only oil available is
 JH> pre-proportioned for a 50:1 mix.
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 RS>  Aren't you buying a container of oil only?
 RS> That's what I buy.

At Home Depot - most of the oil I saw there was set up for 50:1. They
sell tiny bottles 2.xx ounces, enough for 1 gal of mix (Cost a buck
apiece), and they also had larger bottles of oil, with a siphon
reservoir thingie, which is intended to meter out just enough oil at a
time for one gallon of gas, again, a 50:1 mix.  This oil is _expensive_
per ounce, also.

I ended up going to Discount Auto Parts, and bought a quart of oil as
used by boaters, Sea-Doos, , etc.  and mixing my own 32:1 for the
string trimmer.  I loaned the chainsaw to my son to cut up a fallen
limb, and he has already run some 50:1 mix thru it. - - I sent him an
empty gascan and one of those 2.xx ounce bottles of this fancy new oil.

But what I was questioning most, was what has changed since the old
32:1 days - - is it the engines, or perhaps the properties of the oil?
Worried me that the place which fixed my old Homelite Chainsaw
recommended I start using a 50:1 mix of today's oil.

- - -  JimH.

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