> Curley wrote:

> I have not taken my stihl in because it needed a rebuild in ~40
> years. I mix a gallon a year, and use it to light bonfires etc,
> and yes, it has ethanol in it.  

I don't know what you folk do different - or what it is that I do
different.  But my experience is _zero_ fuel trouble in 30+ years
of trying to use _only_ ethenol laced gasoline.  Yup - I used to
carefully choose the station so I could get E10.  It's now so
common I don't have to search for it.

I burn at least 4 gallons a year in my chain saws, a lot less than
that in the line trimmer.  My mowers are all 4 cycle, and the
newest is at least 25 years old.  They two get only E10.

And there the carburetor fed small-block Cheby engines.  After
switching to E10 I no longer had to clean the carburetors every
couple years.  It was that experience that caused me to shift to
always try to use E10 and it has been a rare fueling that was
otherwise.

All these engines sit for long periods of time.  And Missouri is
not known for it's low humidity I would expect condensation to be
common.

Again - zero problems that I can blame on fuel.   The closest was
this fall, the one chainsaw didn't start.  I opened the
carburetor, found nothing wrong - clean as a pin.  Put it back
together and it runs fine.  Was that fuel?  I suppose it could
have been - but I didn't change the fuel in the tank.  Once it was
running I worked it until it was empty, filled with fresh(er) fuel
and kept cutting.

So am I just lucky?  Is it the steady diet of E10?   I don't know,
but I'm still using E10 almost exclusively for all engines that
don't use diesel.

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