I run 93 octane in my saws with Stihl ultra at 50:1.
All in all everyone knows that I believe being its been beaten like a dead horse every couple of weeks I think since the beginning of time, but it makes us sleep better at night knowing we got race car gas :hmm3grin2orange: in our wood cutting machines...same mechanics as me painting flames on my bar one time, it made that bar so much faster you don't even know broOctane has NOTHING to do with gumming! Different refinery's even use different chemicals to acheive thier octane rating. Gumming is a function of evaporation and other stuff like detergents or lack there of. I would have to say that there are more misguided beleifs about fuel than any other engine related topic.
All in all everyone knows that I believe being its been beaten like a dead horse every couple of weeks I think since the beginning of time, but it makes us sleep better at night knowing we got race car gas :hmm3grin2orange: in our wood cutting machines...same mechanics as me painting flames on my bar one time, it made that bar so much faster you don't even know bro
Octane has NOTHING to do with gumming! Different refinery's even use different chemicals to acheive thier octane rating. Gumming is a function of evaporation and other stuff like detergents or lack there of. I would have to say that there are more misguided beleifs about fuel than any other engine related topic.
i rebuild more carbs from ethanol problems than i sharpen chains.
--oil companies sell oil, not ethanol. Oil companies would rather NOT sell ethanol. They don't grow it or make it or pump it out of the ground. They got mandated/encouraged/brow beat/bribed to put it in. Corn farmers, monsanto et al, and wall street commodities gamblers/speculators combined with feel good greenies (what a combo... of "conservatives" and "liberals"..) are the ones responsible for ethanol in fuel. They were using MTBE before but it turned out to cause massive water pollution (unintended consequences..) so they went with ethanol for fuel oxygenation purposes, to improve air quality, which to be fair, was needed.
That's what I don't quite understand. The one thing that we require to run our equipment in the one thing responsible for its degradation. That is plain irritating. Non-ethanol gas should be an option at every station. There is not a non-ethanol pump any where near me (at least a 2 hour drive) which is more frustrating. But I guess it all comes down to making oil companies making a buck.
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