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Re: E15 ANOTHER FUEL FIGHT
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2014, 09:39:03 am »
Aaron, not doubting your findings. The internet as a whole is difficult to glean accurate info from and the quote from the Popular Mechanics article saying saws run hotter on methanol is a perfect  example of how misinformation gets spread.  When the mtbe gas was replaced with the ethanol fuel there were many issues created from mixing mtbe and alky laced fuels. The result of the mixing of these two fuels was a "brown sludge" which caused tons of issues and was blamed on the ethanol fuel. It didn't surface until much later that the issue was in fact the mtbe/mixed with the replacement fuel.

imho, inactive tools stored with any type fuel are going to experience more issues than regularly used power equipment . Alcohol laced fuel is clearly more corrosive and with its water holding qualities thats a big problem for tools that sit.   

 

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