On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:43:03 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 9/14/18 11:28 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


I don't necessarily need 240v (split phase) but if my Honda ever gives
up the ghost I'll shop for one.

Speaking of the Honda ... I just pulled it out of the storage shed and
gave it three pulls.Â* Fired right up.Â* Last time it was used was last
winter when we lost power for a couple of days.Â* Still has the same
gas in it that it had then with a splash of Stabil in it.Â* I have it
running right now, trying to run it out of gas so I can use fresh gas
if and when I need it again.Â* It's just purring away on the old gas.

So much for the stories that gas goes bad in a month or two.Â* It may
lose some of it's BTU's so an engine can't develop it's full HP rating
but I see no evidence of that.Â* I put a 1500 watt space heater on it
as a load so it burns the gas faster and it runs just fine.




Ahh, you put Stabil in your generator's tank and the gas was good enough
to start up and run your generator and therefore "So much for the
stories that gas goes bad in a month or two."

Gotta love that scientific methodology.

The story comes from people storing E-10 in vented boat tanks. It is
constantly absorbing water, up until the point of phase separation
(scientifically described as the point at which the alcohol has
reached it's saturation point and comes out of solution with the
gasoline).
Gasoline itself still has a shelf life but that has to do with the out
gassing of the more volatile components. That is a much longer process
but it still happens.