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| tautech:
--- Quote from: Benta on August 16, 2023, 09:58:16 pm --- --- Quote from: tautech on August 16, 2023, 09:09:00 pm ---Even decades old Briggs & Stratton engines only required 40hr changes. --- End quote --- Are you guys kidding me? 5 hrs, 40 hrs oil change intervals??? What kind of miserable engines are these? --- End quote --- Splash lube. Silicon alloy bores with chromed alloy pistons running alloy conrods without main bearing shells. They were made for decades and decades and when looked after would also run for decades. Old Kohler engines although of cast iron construction specified similar oil change periods. tautech in an earlier life twisted spanners on these things. ;) |
| joeqsmith:
Typo, I thought 50 but just looked up the Honda, 100 hrs or 6 months. *** I have a cheap Steele 3500W which also calls for an oil change at 100 hrs or 6 months. --- Quote from: tautech on August 16, 2023, 09:09:00 pm ---What brand would that be ? --- End quote --- I was using Torco T-4R with the methanol. Currently using the Brad Penn with gasoline. The 15W-50 and 10W-40 are in my two street bikes. For the 2-strokes, I was using Yamalube but now Lucas goes in everything. When I was growing up riding dirt bikes, mostly I used Golden Spectro. *** I have an Ariens snow blower with a B&S motor. Calls for every 50 hrs. |
| Benta:
Jeez, I didn't know. Always used electric or manual garden tools myself. I feel catapulted back into the 19th century. |
| IanB:
--- Quote from: Benta on August 16, 2023, 11:36:22 pm ---Jeez, I didn't know. Always used electric or manual garden tools myself. I feel catapulted back into the 19th century. --- End quote --- I have also been an electric tool user. However, I have noticed that gasoline engines are vastly more powerful than typical electric motors. For instance, a 1 kW electric motor might output about 1 hp if you are lucky, whereas lawn mowers with tiny gasoline engines can produce 2 to 5 hp easily. |
| joeqsmith:
About the only electric garden tool I own is a hedge trimmer, and I run it off my gasoline generator. I image that this is how the people in CA will side step the new laws. https://www.gomaterials.com/blog/how-californias-gas-powered-lawn-equipment-ban-affects-landscaping-businesses/ |
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