Primer bottle

Russ from MN

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Location
Bemidji MN
Recently there was a discussion about the dangers of pouring gas into a carburetor to start an engine. I made these bottles a few years ago to make that task safer, If the engine were to backfire there is no open container to catch of fire. I always use 40-1 so I can use it on both 2 and 4 stroke engines, and I believe the extra lubrication makes a 4 stroke start better. I can dribble a small amount and keep an engine running until the fuel pump primes or the bad gas has passed through the carburetor. I have a couple of weed eaters that need a little shot at the beginning of the season and then they are good for the rest of the summer.
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Hmm...I thought my soda tasted funny! :p

Looks like a good tip Russ, but might wanna mark the bottles better. Some idiot (like me) might not know till it's too late. :?
 
Yes, I suppose I should label them as gas, to me 40-1 means that! Good thing I'm a one man band, my wife doesn't mess with my
stuff, she just operates the equipment. As you can see, there is still some snow E of Baudette, about a foot or more in the
woods.
 
A friend of mines dad works on old outboard motors. He uses a small metal pump oil can with premix in it to prime the engines. Works pretty good.
 
Hello Russ from MN,

Here is mine, I posted this picture a couple of years ago. Been using it for many more. Any two cycle mix will do.................

Guido.s
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Hello D beatty,

I guess you're questioning the longevity of my tool?....YEARS OLD,

Guido.
 
No i am just saying if your going to use a plastic bottle test it first. I have put gas in plastic bottle and came back to shop several hours latter and find gas all over work bench. Saying not all plastic bottles can be used for gasoline.
 
Hello D beatty,

Well? I said I have been using it for years. Tested the bottle then of course ....still whole and spraying


Guido.
 
D beaty,
I buy oil in a small plastic bottle to oil electric motors with. It comes with a retractable plastic straw. That works well for gas.

However, I find a can of starter fluid works better for me. I don't have to remove the air, just spray starter fluid on air filter.

I carry a can of starter fluid in truck, have one in pole barn, work shop and next to my generators. Don't have to worry about gas in a plastic bottle.
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Ha - yeah gas will melt some plastics!

When I was about 10 years old, a good old neighbor gave me a 2 cylinder Maytag engine. He told me to take it all apart, clean it up good with gasoline, and put it back together and it would run. It was February, and cold as the dickens, so I poured some gas in a plastic ice cream bucket and snuck it into mom's pantry. I left it overnight, and mom took me out of bed by the ear the next morning. It not only melted the plastic bucket, it also melted a big circle in her linoleum. I lived in h3ll for a few days - me and the Maytag were both banned from the house. My brother was also ticked - I'd siphoned the gas out of his '55 Studebaker. I'd planned to pour it back in the Studebaker after I was done with it, but that didn't work out after the bucket melted.
 

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