Diesel prices are through the roof (2.3€/L) but my backup fuel storage is ripe for rotation. Hopefully the prices have gone down a bit once I finish the last canister.
I always struggled with these 30L canisters and only strained my back and made a mess trying to pour it manually. This 14€ pump sure makes thing easier.
Lost machines to bad gas? Now I’m paranoid, I’ve a brand new chainsaw here. It is also leaking a pink substance which is weird, my bar and chain oil isn’t pink, or the gas, and the tanks seemed empty when I filled them, then emptied the gas and put new gas in.
Pink could be a dye. They dye some fuels so that they can be identified for different purposes so they can charge different tax rates on them, and often because standards are different for different purposes (eg. aviation fuel)
It gums up the carburetor and fuel lines. i’m told. The way it was explained to me is that small engines don’t get hot enough to burn that shit off completely, whereas it’s fine in modern cars. I’m not a mechanic, so I don’t know if that’s 100% correct. All I know is it made sense to repair the $1800 snowblower, and didn’t make sense to have the $120 string trimmer repaired (though I did try everything I knew to try in attempt to revive it on my own before replacing it).
Interesting note, before i switched to Rec fuel, my inexpensive poulan chainsaw was left with old 87 octane in it for 5 years, completely unused during that time. Then I fired it up with that old gas in it. And it still runs to this day. So I guess you never know. Sometimes you can get lucky, I suppose.
Ethanol won’t just gum up hoses. I’ve had it EAT the hose on a wood chipper of mine to the point of sorta flaking apart on the inside. Still need to replace that hose and rebuild the carb.
What will gum up hoses is old degraded fuel that will literally become sticky as it oxidizes.
Old equipment is ethanol soluble. Newer isn’t.