Ethanol in small engines

nevadanick wrote:
I tell people to treat small equipment , motorcycles etc like a bill. They are due on the 1st, in which I tell them to start and run them a bit. It's not totally ethanol that is the problem but the actual formulation of gas now days. Having a shop that dealt with this on a near daily basis makes you a believer in the problems of gas going bad. Some gas starts turning to******in as little as 30 days.

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FWIW, I've posted this before but.....At one time, I serviced and maintained a fleet of 125 pieces of equipment with various engines. All of this equipment was serviced and stored for 5 mos. of the year in the Winter. All of the equipment had fuel stabilizer modified gasoline filled in the systems to the tops of the tanks. In Spring, the equipment was put back into service and all of it ran except for 10 pieces, all with the same Kawasaki 6 HP engine. Inspection of the fuel systems showed that each Kawasaki had the main jet clogged with bits of varnished fuel. After that first year, all of those 10 engines were drained instead of topped off and no further problems were found. Sometimes, it's not about the gas but how the fuel system is designed.