No - don’t do this
This is reminiscent of the Second World War thinking though... Those old Jeeps and motor cycles were made to run on Octane levels of 45. Try putting that stuff into a modern car now and see how fast you smoke the engine.hoponpop wrote: ↑ Funny story from last week. Friend of mine's FIL is over for the weekend - 80 year old lifelong farmer and outdoorsman. He gets to teaching us chainsaw chain sharpening and the topic of oil comes up. He laughs and says he has only ever used old/used engine oil in his 2 stroke machines. Says "winter" and "summer" oils along with chain oil is bulls**t and he has never bought 2 stroke oil in his life. Opened my eyes. While I would never do it on a new Stihl, I will certainly not hesitate to use old oil in older machines from now on.
I completely agree but a solid dude telling great stories surrounded by old tools, wood stove fire, drinking beer and working on engines put me into a bromance fog. He could have told me to jump in front of a bus and I would have done it in the moment.Jerico wrote: ↑ This is reminiscent of the Second World War thinking though... Those old Jeeps and motor cycles were made to run on Octane levels of 45. Try putting that stuff into a modern car now and see how fast you smoke the engine.
I remember 15-20 years ago they said to put small engines away with a full fuel tank and stabilizer. Now they say to run them dry as the Ethanol will melt the fuel lines. Things change.
My Dad is 75 and used to do this stuff all the time in the 80s. Farm kid raised with nothing and went to school and got off the farm. Now he follows instructions after blowing up a chainsaw with his old school tricks.hoponpop wrote: ↑ I completely agree but a solid dude telling great stories surrounded by old tools, wood stove fire, drinking beer and working on engines put me into a bromance fog. He could have told me to jump in front of a bus and I would have done it in the moment.
If I had mentioned the word Ethanol, we probably would've bitch-slapped me.
