@cinoclav ProTip: Run super-premium gas or ethanol-free gas in them. Get a can of ethanol-free premix, and at the end of the season, run it dry, put a bit of the ethanol-free in, and run a bit more to flush out any ethanol-gas. Ethanol weakens the plastics and rubber hosing, and is a water-attractant. The fuel systems of 2-cycle engines are not sealed like a car, and over the winter, will condense moisture in the engine and ruin it.
@cinoclav@Fuzzalini Ethanol will break down plastics and rubber parts of the engine that contact the fuel/oil mixture (there are lots these days). Condensation and water disolved into the fuel will oxidize (a.k.a. rust for iron) the metal whether or not it is freezing outside. If you get snow, there’s humidity in the air that will be absorbed into the ethanol fuel mixture. Its the four months sitting in your garage/shed that are why winter prep matters.
But hey, you do you for your 2-cycle tools. Doesn’t bother me if you have to replace yours every year.
@mike808 I agree, but had to learn this from experience. I try to only use ethanol-free all the time in small engines.
We have no ethanol-free stations near us, but I’ve started taking a couple cans whenever we travel near a station that does. https://www.pure-gas.org/
@cinoclav Its all a vicious plot by state minions to deprive us of our precious two-strokes (and also an early pernicious step towards stealing away our even more precious 4-strokes…)
@mike808 I’m finally down to only one 2 cycle engine and that’s my leaf blower. Even that I’ll use sometimes in the winter if the snow is light enough. I’ve switched over to battery powered for my hedge trimmer, weed whacker, and even a chainsaw.
@stolicat I agree! One day I swear I could smell skunk in our side yard. I walked out there and realized my neighbors were smoking weed. I also like the smell of weed, though I can’t smoke it.
I love that smell of the sea with tarred pilings. There’s usually a fishy smell and some diesel exhaust in there too, but I can do without that part.
When I was a kid we had a non-working fireplace, but with a cast-iron firestarter pot nearby. I assume what was in it must once have been kerosene, but I don’t remember it smelling exactly like that, it was sharper somehow. I loved that smell.
@2many2no Also, tar warmed by the sun, like being by the freight tracks on a summer day. Also, coal tar ointment for skin conditions (because it’s like being by the freight tracks on a summer day).
Sometimes diesel exhaust smells like meat cooking at a distance, and sometimes meat cooking at a distance smells like diesel exhaust, and both will make me hungry upon occasion.
Also, there’s a very specific diesel exhaust/winter air/cigarette smoke combination that smells like going to the Carson’s at Lakehurst Mall to see Scotty the Talking Pine Tree. And an entirely different diesel exhaust/winter air (damp, not freezing)/cigarette smoke combination that smells like going to London in 1980. And a diesel exhaust/summer air/cigarette smoke combination that smells like WE’RE GOING TO THE COUNTY FAIR.
Weird smells that you actually like.
@Thumperchick beat me to it
@Thumperchick
Fireworks… Gunpowder…
Are those weird?
@jst1ofknd @Thumperchick that’s manly shit and THOSE ARE BOTH AWESOME. I KNOW THE FEELING OF GUNPOWDER AND LEAD
/giphy Miranda lambert
@Thumperchick Garlic.
@Thumperchick For some reason I liked the smell in my grandparent’s basement.
Chloroform
I love the smell of Icy Hot, Ben Gay, Vicks VapoRub, etc.
@Pony Anything with camphor.
@mike808 Yes. Love it.
After you eat Asparagus and go to the bathroom for #1.
@mike808 yep
Two stroke engines.
@cinoclav ProTip: Run super-premium gas or ethanol-free gas in them. Get a can of ethanol-free premix, and at the end of the season, run it dry, put a bit of the ethanol-free in, and run a bit more to flush out any ethanol-gas. Ethanol weakens the plastics and rubber hosing, and is a water-attractant. The fuel systems of 2-cycle engines are not sealed like a car, and over the winter, will condense moisture in the engine and ruin it.
@cinoclav @mike808 Assuming you live in places that freeze.
@cinoclav @Fuzzalini Ethanol will break down plastics and rubber parts of the engine that contact the fuel/oil mixture (there are lots these days). Condensation and water disolved into the fuel will oxidize (a.k.a. rust for iron) the metal whether or not it is freezing outside. If you get snow, there’s humidity in the air that will be absorbed into the ethanol fuel mixture. Its the four months sitting in your garage/shed that are why winter prep matters.
But hey, you do you for your 2-cycle tools. Doesn’t bother me if you have to replace yours every year.
@mike808 I agree, but had to learn this from experience. I try to only use ethanol-free all the time in small engines.
We have no ethanol-free stations near us, but I’ve started taking a couple cans whenever we travel near a station that does.
https://www.pure-gas.org/
@cinoclav Its all a vicious plot by state minions to deprive us of our precious two-strokes (and also an early pernicious step towards stealing away our even more precious 4-strokes…)
@mike808 I’m finally down to only one 2 cycle engine and that’s my leaf blower. Even that I’ll use sometimes in the winter if the snow is light enough. I’ve switched over to battery powered for my hedge trimmer, weed whacker, and even a chainsaw.
@zachdecker You should ask around for “race gas”. Cans (pre-mix and not) are also available from the local big box home improvement stores.
Grandma’s seat cushion.
@medz That’s messed up.
@Fuzzalini
@Fuzzalini @medz
/giphy smell this molly shannon
distant skunk, that whiff you get when it’s nearby but not too close.
/giphy distant skunk
@stolicat I agree! One day I swear I could smell skunk in our side yard. I walked out there and realized my neighbors were smoking weed. I also like the smell of weed, though I can’t smoke it.
that kind of gross but wonderful smell underneath certain watches I’ve worn. Or! The super gross but delicious smell in a cast (wrist/arm, in my case)
Moth balls. (The kind you put in your closet. But if someone still feels compelled to make a joke, have at it.)
@lordbowen You knew it was coming!!!
Bore solvent and gun oil
@medz Hoppes Number 9… ahhh, should be a cologne.
@duodec @medz I used to have one of the air fresheners of Hoppes Number 9. So good.
I love that smell of the sea with tarred pilings. There’s usually a fishy smell and some diesel exhaust in there too, but I can do without that part.
When I was a kid we had a non-working fireplace, but with a cast-iron firestarter pot nearby. I assume what was in it must once have been kerosene, but I don’t remember it smelling exactly like that, it was sharper somehow. I loved that smell.
@aetris I was going to post the ocean brine on a rocky coast
Fresh hot tar, the good stuff, not that crappy Seal-Kote.
@2many2no
/giphy swoon
@2many2no Also, tar warmed by the sun, like being by the freight tracks on a summer day. Also, coal tar ointment for skin conditions (because it’s like being by the freight tracks on a summer day).
@mike808 awesome giphy!
Bon fire
@tinamarie1974
/giphy fire fire
@jst1ofknd omg that is totes adorable
@tinamarie1974
/giphy totes
Sometimes diesel exhaust smells like meat cooking at a distance, and sometimes meat cooking at a distance smells like diesel exhaust, and both will make me hungry upon occasion.
Also, there’s a very specific diesel exhaust/winter air/cigarette smoke combination that smells like going to the Carson’s at Lakehurst Mall to see Scotty the Talking Pine Tree. And an entirely different diesel exhaust/winter air (damp, not freezing)/cigarette smoke combination that smells like going to London in 1980. And a diesel exhaust/summer air/cigarette smoke combination that smells like WE’RE GOING TO THE COUNTY FAIR.