Straight-Gassed

[Jonny Quest]

OK...time to come clean. Have you ever straight-gassed a saw?

I'll start the confessional -- I straight-gassed ONE 2-stroke engine: a Sears Crapsman 50cc Chinese P-O-S. In the end, it all worked out OK as it brought me to the promised land of Pro Saws. There I feel better now.

JQ

 

[stihl sawing]

Not yet. I go through about ten gallons a year on a variety of two strokes. If I cut wood that year the amount will double.

 

[Cease232]

Nope. I use dedicated clearly marked cans. Echo red armor so it's easy to identify mix And never run someone else's mix.


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[Deleted member 149229]

Nope. I use dedicated clearly marked cans. Echo red armor so it's easy to identify mix And never run someone else's mix.


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Ditto.

 

[tomdcoker]

OK...time to come clean. Have you ever straight-gassed a saw?

I'll start the confessional -- I straight-gassed a Sears Crapsman 50cc Chinese P-O-S. There I feel better now.

JQ

In my option that was a good thing. Tom

 

[Tex68w]

I bite the bullet and run the premix stuff from Stihl, it's more expensive for sure, but I never have to worry about ethanol and I know without a shadow of a doubt that it'll be fresh and of the correct ratio.

I was using my 261 C-M to help clean up my BIL's new property with him this past weekend, he couldn't understand why I wouldn't use his mix haha. I gave in used his bar oil, Stihl orange jug Woodcutter of course.

 

[LegDeLimber]

Ditto on only using my own fuel only.
Red Armor for the mix and all strait gas stays in the 5 gallon jugs. The color does help
The pre-mix has a one gallon jug to live in.

I figured that keeping things in that order would (hopefully) make me notice the difference when I grabbed a jug.
So far.... it 's kept me outta oopsie-ville.
But I don't run a whole lot of fuel these days, so not as much opportunity for my scattered mind to get me into trouble.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Made it for 56 years this coming March without, hope my record holds til I can`t pick a saw up any longer.

 

[Mad Professor]

No. But many years ago made the mistake of adding drygas to a saw that had some water in the tank, result was about the same.

 

[2broke2ride]

My premix is kept in a steel eagle 2 gallon can. My straight gas is in a plastic 5 gallon can. Pretty hard to mix up. Not impossible, but hard

 

[2broke2ride]

My premix is kept in a steel eagle 2 gallon can. My straight gas is in a plastic 5 gallon can. Pretty hard to mix up. Not impossible, but hard

 

[svk]

No. I keep my mixed gas in 1 or 2.5 gallon cans and straight gas in 5 or 6 gallon cans

 

[cuinrearview]

My son did it to one last summer and when that quit running he grabbed another and straight gassed it too. I had to fix them. Does that count?

 

[46 Poulan]

I bite the bullet and run the premix stuff from Stihl, it's more expensive for sure, but I never have to worry about ethanol and I know without a shadow of a doubt that it'll be fresh and of the correct ratio.

I was using my 261 C-M to help clean up my BIL's new property with him this past weekend, he couldn't understand why I wouldn't use his mix haha. I gave in used his bar oil, Stihl orange jug Woodcutter of course.

Grass hopper--He who uses anothers gas mix will soon hear silence from his best saw--The GURU

 

[Conquistador3]

I put some premix in a junky Chinese Honda four stroke clone a couple years back.
And so I discovered those things can double as smoke generators.

 

[GilksTreeFelling]

Nope not yet, my straight gas is in a 5 gallon jug, mixed is in a 1 gallon jug marked in sharpie " mixed gas only 50:1".

 

[Cope1024]

I have 2.5 gallon poly cans for both straight gas and 2 cycle mix. They are not allowed to sit next to each other and I have both plainly marked. I use Echo Red Armor in the 2 cycle, and 89 octane with Fuel medic for both. When I decide that the fuel is getting old both go in my older SUV or son-in-law's truck.

 

[Ambull]

I have never done it either. I have two dedicated 5 gallon jugs, and a 2 gallon filler jug. When the 5 gallon jugs are empty, I run down to the local airport and fill them with 102LL fuel. I then mix in Amsoil Dominator oil using a 3 oz. Dixie cup, 5 cup fulls per jug. No ethanol, about 40:1. This stuff has a shelf life of at least 2 years and does not need stabilizer. Only bad thing is 10 gallons of this mix costs more than a $50 POS saw. Piece of mind is well worth it. The Dominator has a red color, so it would be completely obvious if somehow I forgot to put it in. I leave it in all my saws, and the carbs never need to be rebuilt, and fuel lines never need to be replaced. The 102LL would probably cause problems with catalytic converters, but I don't have any saws with cats in them.

 

[Mad Professor]

My son did it to one last summer and when that quit running he grabbed another and straight gassed it too. I had to fix them. Does that count?

Did the son get a session in the woodshed with the hickory stick?

 

[spyder62]

Ambull, what’s LL. Low lead? 102 octane