captain_spalding said:

buffy said:

transition said:

how long you been using 2-stroke mix in a 4-stroke, generally doesn’t do too much damage short to medium periods, and unlikely any serious damage.

Last used the mower in August. A couple of days ago it wouldn’t start. Tank about half full. So I’m guessing I used about half a tank. I probably ran out of petrol and refilled to finish what I was doing. It seems things settled and gelled. Or something. They have drained it and now it starts first pull every time. According to the mower shop.

me and a mate were out fishing from his tinny one day, and when we returned and secured the boat, we found that his car was out of fuel.

He’s a motor mechanic, so it was a motor mechanic’s car: had half-a-dozen ‘one of these days’ items on it, one of which was the fuel gauge.

He happily put the two-stroke outboard fuel in the car’s tank. Admittedly, it was a 50 to 1 fuel/oil mixture, but i had my doubts.

Anyway, it ran fine. Maybe a little more smoke than usual, but it got us home. And, he explained once it was diluted further with a tank of petrol, it’d be like it was never there.

all tried and true.