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Posted by Ashton Crusher on August 3, 2005, 10:42 pm
Thanks for the feedback. Seems to be a safe approach.
>Ashton,
>
>I believe that you got good advice from on using the synthetic 2 cycle
>oil. Just remember to break in new equipment on traditional oil and
>mix ratios before using your synthetic mix.
>
>My friends and I switched over to high ratio synthetic mixes for our
>huge assortments of 2 cycle engines and none of us have had any
>problems.
>
>Good luck,
>Gideon
>
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>Ashton Crusher wrote in message ...
>Over the years I acquired an assortment of 2 stroke power tools that
>needed oil-gas mixtures. One of the first was a Poulan Chain saw,
>maybe 25 years ago, that I still have. After that have been a variety
>of weed-eaters and blowers. The Poulan called for 16:1 gas:oil mix.
>The other stuff varied from around 32:1 to 40:1 or thereabouts. I
>also used to have an outboard motorboat that used 50:1 ratio.
>
>One time when I went to get a carb rebuild kit for one of the blowers
>I saw they had some 3.2 oz cans of oil to mix with the gas. I had
>been mixing more like 4 oz per gallon. I asked the guy if he had any
>4 oz cans so it would be the right ratio. He said, "You don't need
>that anymore, just use these 3.2, it's synthetic and works for
>everything. So that's what I started using. I had had the Poulan
>chain saw so long I had forgotten it was supposed to be 16:1 so it,
>along with everything else was getting this 3.2 oz oil mixed with a
>gallon of gas. I've never had any problems with any of these things,
>other then they eventually wear out after a decade (except for the
>Poulan chain saw which is still working great).
>
>Have I just been lucky in using this 40:1 mix in stuff that has been
>supposed to have anywhere from a 16:1 to 30:1 mix in it or is what
>they guy at the small equipment repair place told me true, that the
>new 3.2 oz oil cans are good for EVERYTHING now?
>
>
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