JohnW wrote:

Dave, in article ,
says...


I think I got spoiled with my old British Seagull. It was like an SU
carburetor--nothing could stop it from working. I don't think I ever did
anything except shut it off, and I'm sure I never drained the tank.


Thank goodness for that :-) When I ran up my old Seagull with
a very old tank of fuel last year it started after a few pulls
- I was worried I might have caused damage :-)

I won't bother throwing away the contents of the fuel tank
now... Might look at changing it from 10:1 though.

I think a lot of depends on the equipment. I've got two Echo weedeaters
that both started on the third pull with six-month-old mix. I used to
have a Sears/Ryobi that wouldn't run with anything more than two weeks
old. It's Echo or Stihl from now on.

DT