Frank Fusco
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Can we suspend the no cussing rules for one day a week? Today would have been good.
Rare for me, but I was really in a big time cussin' mood today. Was trying to clean up some of the January ice storm wood from my yard today using my new Stihl chain saw.
(imagine cuss part here) Well....the thing wouldn't start or run right. Fire a couple times, maybe idle then die.
Back to the store where I bought it. Guy poured out the fuel and said I was using wrong oil. Not so. I was using genuine Stihl oil with the gas mix carefully measured. He compared it with some of theirs. Theirs was blue, mine was green.
In walks another tech who didn't know what was going on but he immediately said "That gas smells strange." Finally we deduced that the gasoline I was using had ethanol in it. They use only ethanol free gas. The ethanol, apparently, contaminates the oil/fuel mix. And that was the source of my non-running problem. They put in some of their mix and saw ran great.
Now, I have to buy gas just for this saw. Why can anything be simple? I like simple.
Rare for me, but I was really in a big time cussin' mood today. Was trying to clean up some of the January ice storm wood from my yard today using my new Stihl chain saw.
(imagine cuss part here) Well....the thing wouldn't start or run right. Fire a couple times, maybe idle then die.
Back to the store where I bought it. Guy poured out the fuel and said I was using wrong oil. Not so. I was using genuine Stihl oil with the gas mix carefully measured. He compared it with some of theirs. Theirs was blue, mine was green.
In walks another tech who didn't know what was going on but he immediately said "That gas smells strange." Finally we deduced that the gasoline I was using had ethanol in it. They use only ethanol free gas. The ethanol, apparently, contaminates the oil/fuel mix. And that was the source of my non-running problem. They put in some of their mix and saw ran great.
Now, I have to buy gas just for this saw. Why can anything be simple? I like simple.