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seastream
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Initially Posted - 11/04/2004 : 19:25:07

Got about 4 gallons of 50:1 fuel mix for my '87 Evinrude left over. Whatcha guys and gals do with your leftover fuel? Dump it or bring it home for spring use in the weed whacker and such? Can't imagine it'd be any good after sitting.

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 11/04/2004 : 19:42:08

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by seastream
 Got about 4 gallons of 50:1 fuel mix for my '87 Evinrude left over. Whatcha guys and gals do with your leftover fuel? Dump it or bring it home for spring use in the weed whacker and such? Can't imagine it'd be any good after sitting.
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My leftover fuel feeds my weedwacker and snowblower. Any remaining fuel gets stabilized and if I have a few gallons remaining in the spring, I simply mix it, a gallon at a time, into a fresh tank of fuel.

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 11/04/2004 : 20:05:52

I agree with Don -- dilute it and use it. I've even gone so far as to dump stale 2-stroke mix into my road vehicles, a little bit at a time on top of nearly full tanks of fresh fuel. I don't suggest doing this to a high compression engine. And be careful not to accidently transfer sediment from one tank into another.

-- Leon Sisson

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At Ease
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Response Posted - 11/04/2004 : 20:10:26

As long as it is properly treated with Sta-Bil, it will be OK all winter...been doing it for years.

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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 11/05/2004 : 00:20:50

Ditto on the Sta-Bil. In the spring I often add a few drops of Heat to dry any residual moisture that may have beaten the Sta-Bil. My old Evinrude never fails to start on the first or second crank.

Al
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tinob
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Response Posted - 11/05/2004 : 11:45:26

This is a seasonal question in these parts and how people use the old fuel runs the gammut from chucking it to using it in fractional hp motors to the use in modern automobile engins. SAE folks advise not using it in engins employing injectors( oils can block the intended flow rate of fuels) or in any engine using catalytic convertors. Having said so I'm ducking the retorts of those who regularly use it with no apparent problems.

I use it in weedwackers, mowers, antique tractors and even for washing gooky stuff but nowhere else.

Val on the hard DAGNABIT

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tinob
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Response Posted - 11/05/2004 : 11:47:53

Oh no Not 666 posts, please excuse this non-post

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Response Posted - 11/05/2004 : 13:06:45

I pour my old fuel on my storage yard space so I don't have to mow it as often next summer. We are responsible for mowing our storage spots or the youth sailing program will do it for us at $35 a wack.

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tinob
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Response Posted - 11/06/2004 : 09:04:35

Wow Frank! In New York that practice could get you one heck of a penalty ( DEC you know), plus having to excavate the offended soil

. There have been cases of homeowners being penalized many thousands of dollars for a leaky fuel tank infraction with the required contaminated soil removal.
Val on the hard DAGNABIT

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Response Posted - 11/06/2004 : 21:48:48

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by tinob
 Wow Frank! In New York that practice could get you one heck of a penalty ( DEC you know), Val on the hard DAGNABIT
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What does DEC stand for? We fly over states don't have a lot of regulations.

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tinob
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Response Posted - 11/07/2004 : 14:47:35

Department of environmental control...

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 11/07/2004 : 22:14:11

Regulations notwithstanding... remember that much of what you dump on the ground will eventually end up in your lake (or drinking water).

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Response Posted - 11/08/2004 : 09:18:10

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by fhopper@mac.com
 I pour my old fuel on my storage yard space so I don't have to mow it as often next summer. We are responsible for mowing our storage spots or the youth sailing program will do it for us at $35 a wack.
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I didn't know you had a yard space at Cheney, Frank. I hope it isn't near mine. If I see you do anything like you've just described I'll report you to the State Dept. of Environmental Control. Cheney Lake is our city resevoir.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 11/08/2004 : 10:37:11

I think the end of season is very hard on many people's sense of humor.

Last year I actually sent the tank with my son to a local gas station and they accepted it. I would hope most gas stations have a means of taking old petroleum products. I already have enough trouble getting my weed wacker to start, I don't need old fuel to harass me further!
Hey Mark, I hope you got out ok yesterday, it looked like the sun was racing you.

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tinob
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Response Posted - 11/09/2004 : 10:20:51

OOPS, dang , this old age thing is getting to me...correction to the post stating that the c in DEC is for control, not so recent memory flash indicates it's for conservation...AAAHHH I feel better

Val on the hard DAGNABIT

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Response Posted - 11/09/2004 : 13:15:19

Where I live, south of Boston, I have not found one gas station that will get rid of old fuel. There is some sort of disposal site in Braintree that I have heard of but have not investigated it. I asked one station a few years ago what I should do with old gas and they said:" just dump it out back on the grass. Thatw what we do."

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