Fuel cutoff solenoid for Onan gensets?
For storage, I've wondered how useful it would be to have either a fuel petcock valve on the line, or if one wanted to get fancier, a solenoid activated fuel valve (so it could be turned on/off from i...
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WHITE GAS can stay in a carburetor for twenty years and it will not gum, ever.
The trick of course is how to make it easy and convenient to run that generator the last fifteen seconds on white gas safely. After learning this trick from professional loggers treating their chain saws before storage, I have had 100% fewer restart problems with everything from saws, to lawnmowers, to you guessed it, generators, works with 2-cycle BUT DON'T ADD OIL to the white gas. A few seconds of operation with pure white gas will not hurt things in the slightest. I have restarted chainsaws after six years of storage on the first pull using this little trick.
The trick of course is how to make it easy and convenient to run that generator the last fifteen seconds on white gas safely. After learning this trick from professional loggers treating their chain saws before storage, I have had 100% fewer restart problems with everything from saws, to lawnmowers, to you guessed it, generators, works with 2-cycle BUT DON'T ADD OIL to the white gas. A few seconds of operation with pure white gas will not hurt things in the slightest. I have restarted chainsaws after six years of storage on the first pull using this little trick.
