Metal Coleman fuel cans are ideal to store mix in, no air no light. Similar used solvent cans from auto body shops. They may even have 5-gal.
I agree, to a point. Spending an extra $1/gallon to get E-free, 91 octane? Makes sense. Spending $3+ extra per gallon for something like 100LL or premium pump gas with an octane booster? Doesn't make as much sense (at least for me). We spend many times more in fuel in our saws during their lifespan than the saw itself. It makes sense to minimize our fuel and bar oil cost, since that's really where our money is going.
Octane boosters have a very minimal effect on actual octane rating. They also have downsides like combustion deposites or degrading rubber and plastics depending on which one your using.
NONE of that is true. Pump fuel varies by the hour when it's produced, but all of it wether 87 or premium has a similar flame speed and energy content.
Yes it does. Some of the light end streams have high octane numbers. As the boil off over time th octane rating of the fuel decreases.
We analyzed gasoline samples by GC/MS. We identified and quantified each and every peak in the chromatagrams. Xylenes are indeed present, more so in higher octane fuels. There was also toluene and trace amounts of benzene.
I work in oil refining. In the last 20 years refiners have invested billions of dollars into equipment to remove BTX. Is there some still present? Yes, but at very minimal levels. The days of jacking up aromatic(BTX) levels to increase octane is long gone and the EPA mandates this.
Echo is not the only manufacturer that recommends 89 octane or better. Stihl also recommends 89 octane as printed on the back label of their silver bottle 2 cycle oil. The addition of 2 cycle oil to gasoline actually drops the octane of fuel! Husqvarna ethanol free canned fuel actually states just that on the can. Premium grade Ethanol blended gasoline and a high quality 2 cycle oil mixed properly is all you need for your saw. Just don’t store your saw with a ethanol mixed fuel. Run it dry then put a little bit of the ethanol free canned fuel and run it to purge the ethanol out of the fuel system. Virtually all small engine equipment is vented to the atmosphere! Ethanol ( alcohol ) attracts moisture. Aviation fuel is ethanol free for a reason! Sub zero temperature at high altitude and ice in the fuel system doesn’t turn out well. Aviation fuel doesn’t atomize the same as conventional fuel either. I personally wouldn’t run it in my equipment. I’ve been told but have yet verified it that fuel sold at a marina is ethanol free fuel. Boats sit in and operate in the water! Ethanol free fuel is nearly impossible to find in my area and I can’t justify the cost. There is a reason the major saw manufacturers recommend minimum 89 octane and all ethanol free engineered fuel is 92+ fuel after blended with a Jaso FD premium 2 cycle oil
Not all two cycle oil reduces the octane rating. Some, like Honda HP2 contain components like cumene which boost octane.
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Exactly correct. With the compression ratio of a saw 87 octane is adequate and loggers have worn out many saws using it with perfect results.
The first experience I had with it was a Four Winns ski boat with a 4.3 Chevy V6 . The Marina claimed to be 89 , but I doubt it. When you finished pulling somebody and shut that engine off it would diesel seems like forever. I could put a can of 104 Octane booster in a tank and it would quit just like you flipped a switch.
Again...octane boosters increase octane very minimally.... like a few 1/10ths.
Probably because it gets old corelrecting old culls cling to manuals and old wives tales without actually thinking for themselves..
Yeah, and I'm supposed to believe just cause you say it when the result is quite to the contrary.. Like most of the BS you come up with.
Yup especially when all the third world uneducated walked across the southern border here by the millions .
