Pure Gas Hampton NH Airfield

[garandman]

I have a bunch of small motors that either have carbs or get stored over the winter, or generators indefinitely. Two two strok outboards, chainsaw, lawnmower, snow throwers, etc. Worrying about phase separation is stressful....

Hampton Airfield has 93 Octane Mogas with no ethanol at a self-serve pump. You have to fill a can: it's "off-road" only so the only vehicles that can fuel are planes. But you can park about 30' away so carrying your cans is no biggie. You use a credit card but have to specifiy how many gallons you are buying or they put a $300 hold on your card.

Currently $4.95 per gallon. I use steel type I cans to transport it then decant it into a No Spill plastic can for dispensing.

I also fill my motorcycles for the winter as with a siphon I have another 10 gallons available.

 

[enbloc]

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[garandman]

I use stabilizer anyway: as soon as a can is emptied I put the storage dose in. We also use Stabil Marine Ethonal grade on land: in our boat we used PRI-G as it was more concentrated and it was a 100 gallon tank.

 

[FreeWillie]

Just use sta-bil. Cheaper and will store fuel up to 2 years.

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[Len-2A Training]

Just use sta-bil. Cheaper and will store fuel up to 2 years.

Alcohol degradation of rubber gaskets/seals was the issue with ethanol IIRC. How does a stabilizer address this problem?

 

[enbloc]

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[Len-2A Training]

Matt, thanks.

 

[Zappa]

This the same airfield that just had the fatal crash a few hours ago ???

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/09/01/small-plane-crashes-in-hampton-nh-2/

2 Killed In Small Plane Crash In Hampton, NH

 

[garandman]

Others swear by it so I'm I trying it for last tank of season. Cheap insurance.

BTW Stabil now has a concentrated formula to compete with PRI-G. They also have a formulation called 360, have not tried it.

 

[Bt74]

The thing that bothers me about additives, is that there is still ethanol in the gas. Ethanol is hygroscopic, would rather have gas that doesn't have it in it. Kinda like sterilizing a dog turd.

 

[Coyote33]

I never knew fuel was this complicated. I still have and have been using the red Stabil.

Huh.

 

[Gator9329]

Anything is better than nothing at all.

I never knew fuel was this complicated. I still have and have been using the red Stabil.

Huh.

 

[enbloc]

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[Coyote33]

Yep. I remember when gas was cheaper... and better.

Good poinit! I bet it costs a lot of money to crap up gas this bad. I remember as a kid, how I used to love the smell of gas. Now it smells kinda bad. It smells really bad out of a mower or motorcycle, or anything without cat converters. I can understand removing the lead (a little bit), but all the other crap, really?

 

[71montess]

Thank you, DemocRATS.

 

[Kevin_NH]

Currently $4.95 per gallon.

Compared to all the other sources in the region, that's actually a very good price.

 

[enbloc]

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[garandman]

You can buy quart cans of pure gas at Lowes or HD for $5-6.

 

[Len-2A Training]

You can buy quart cans of pure gas at Lowes or HD for $5-6.

I did that for 2 new yard tools but at $20/gal, that's pretty darn expensive!

 

[Smokewagon]

I use sta-bil in my motorcycle for winter storage, and it starts up easy come spring every time. This year it was almost June before I went out to get it and there was no problems. My father swears by it for his chainsaws and boats, he used to not worry about it since he had easy inexpensive access to AV Gas.