Ivylog wrote:
Exercising generators and Diesel engines every month is a waste of time and should go under urban legends along with changing your car's oil every 3000 miles. How can all these portable generators survive without being exercised every month??? I have a portable welder that's 50 years old and it sits outdoors and it can be years between uses. Its sat so long that I have to touch the leads to a battery to re-magnetize the fields to get it to weld. I have a portable generator that's 40+ years old and gets used every 5 years...maybe. My 14 years old 10k generator has never been run every month...doing that would interfere with sorting my socks.
I agree the gas today sucks and needs to be stabilized if storing for more than 4-5 months. I would shut off the fuel supply to a gas generator...add a valve if necessary and then run it till it stops. Open the valve and crank it up next summer and Go Camping. Putting the spices in alphabetical order will be a better use of your time than running a generator every month.:S
Totally agree either inject stabilized fuel enough to fill carb or just drain it for the winter 3-4 months and start it in march when weathers better (depending where your at)
My lawn mower(ride on) sits 6 months I crank over and she starts right up every year for last 20 years Honda power washer same thing
There is some talk of the generating part of the gen set needing to be run(exersized) ;;I have never personally had a problem with such; run mine about every 4 months or so
