First off folks who work in a shop get saws and such that have been sitting with fuel in them since last season or the fuel has been stored in the can for gosh knows how long. Just remember these shops also think modding a saw is instant death to the saw. Stay there 5 min and they will do just about anything to get your money too. 99% of the folks that take there equipment there do no maintenence on there saws either. They run them till they stop or leave them in the shed with fuel in them for months and months if not years expecting them to run. Dump your e-gas in your vehicle when your done, if your not going to use it in the next month. Also dump the fuel out of your equipment when done with them or run them dry. Do you really believe the garbage your ope's tell you? :taped: Plus its getting more money into the shops and alot of small shops. Is that a bad thing? There are lots of folks on here who run e-gas and have never had a problem. You also tend to only hear about the bad experience's on the internet or shops.
The ope independent shop, the husky shop and the stihl shop locally to me advise customers to not use ethanol fuel if they can avoid it. Seems if they wanted to drum up more business they wouldnt say that.
Just sayin..there a lot of different people who run shops, some more ethical than others. A good shop will do good business, ethanol fuel or not. Just like they did back in the day when there wasnt any ethanol fuel. some good and competent, look out for their customers, some dont give a squat, just want to take their money no matter how they do it.
Anyway, ethanol contaminated fuel (thats what I call it, contaminated), there are two things cant be argued, because it is just data: You cant argue the actual verified chemistry, that is not opinion, that is just hard verifiable act, and you cant argue that all the saw manufacturers have explicit warnings about not using anything above E 10, and as can be seen, plenty of folks can inadvertently get a higher % of ethanol in their fuel, even when the pump says 10%. And thats such a random crapshoot, no one can say that, that just because they can deal with it without apparent issues, that some other guy over in the next state who got a batch of too high is at fault when it borks his equipment. That guy could be doing the same level of care, only using fresh, etc, and still have a breakdown, and it isnt his fault.
This is why I say, if you CAN get non ethanol, do it, its just all around superior fuel with much less chance of causing problems.. just cheap insurance. I dont want to run a real cheap mix oil when for just a little more I can get quality good FD rated synthetic, and the same for gas, for a slight bit of pocket change extra per gallon I can get non E over ethanol contaminated.
To each their own!
