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Found this in my mom and pop hardware store or yesterday. Supposed to contain some PEA but by looking at the SDS it can't have much. It's made by the same people package Trufuel. Anybody got any experience with this product? https://www.doitbest.com/products/704453...

All my local Walmart stores are selling VP 2 cycle synthetic oil now. I tried it and I must say that it has the mildest smelling exhaust of any 2 cycle mix I've used in recent memory. I contacted VP and asked them what the base oil is and they were very tight lipped about the base oils and would...

Walmart sells a canned fuel called Outdoor Factory Parts multi ratio premix which comes from the Husqvarna group. The oil mix in it is JASO FD certified (#001LTI001) which when you check the certification page it's Redmax 2 stroke oil. Click on the link and scroll to #309...

Back in April I picked up a new Husky 525LS trimmer. I definitely didn't need another trimmer since I had a new Stihl FS94R and new Husky 327LDX combi tool. When I got it home the first thing I did was a simple cat converter bypass by drilling through the baffle. As per the owner's manual...

I recently purchased a 2010 F150 Supercrew 5.4 3v with 54,000 miles. It has had 5,000 dealership changes every 5k since new with MC 5w20. If you had to choose between PYB, MC, Magnatec, or PP which one would you choose? The filter will be MC Fl=820S. If I ran the PP I'd run it out to at least...

Here's my Husky 525LS trimmer that has 23.3 hours on it. It's been fed a steady diet of Husqvarna XP oil and 90 octane non ethanol gas at 45:1. The black carbon on the piston top, plug threads and in the exhaust port rubbed off fairly easily. What do you think?

Ok guys I can get Husky oil from the dealer at a good price. He has XP that Husky refers to as their best oil or I can get Low Smoke which is JASO FD certified. Which one do you choose if the price is the same? The MSDS shows that they have the same base components but at different mixtures. XD...

I did some home brewing today. I mixed 80% Motul 710 with 20% Klotz Benol then I mixed the brew @ 44:1. Very little smoke and the exhaust smelled nicer than plain 710. I figured I'd have the cleanliness of a FD oil with the film strength of castor. Yeah I know I could have just gotten some Super...

While looking at some MSDS composition information on ingredients, I took some screen shots of these MSDS. Omni Specialty blends/bottles the 2 Stihl oils. Spectrum Corp blends/bottles all the rest. To my untrained eye it appears that the Spectrum oils except for Bailey's Syn and Red Armor are...

I was just looking on the Kawasaki webpage and saw that they have updated and changed their oil recommendation chart. It shows that 10w40 has the widest operating range now. Too bad they don't have a 15w40 listed but I'm going to keep on rocking some Rotella. New chart: Old chart...

I have a 2002 Frontier with the KA24DE engine. I ran a Wix 46027 for 2 plus years and over 29k miles so I decided to order a new filter for it. I took a gamble and ordered a Mann MA1056 for $11 and change from Amazon. Amazon has the photo of a Korean made filter just like the Wix on their web...

While researching JASO FD rated oils this morning I came across the official JASO webpage showing all the oils that are certified either FB, FC, and or FD. The list is current and was updated 1 May 2015. Some of you guys may want to check the link out so here it is...

I purchased a new Stihl FS 94 R this spring and really I like the power and relatively light weight of this trimmer. I don't like running a run a guard on any trimmer and I took this one off when I left the dealer. I prefer Speed Feed trimmer heads and tried a 450 and 375 heads on this unit. I...

Today I received a tiny tach/hour meter to go on my new Stihl Fs94R trimmer to track my accrued hours with it over the coming years. It's an awesome lightweight 2 stroke trimmer by the way. I decided to try it out on my Echo Cs-510 saw before I installed it on the trimmer. The saw was purchased...

I have a very old Stihl FS88 trimmer I've had for 18+ years but I wanted to get another 2 stroke trimmer to add to my collection. I went to my Stihl dealer and walked out with the FS94R and a 6 pack of Stihl Ultra oil. I went home and started trimming up some broomsage and blackberry brambles...

I wanted to conduct my own corrosion test to see which one of my lubes would protect my weapons and fishing gear the best when exposed to an ocean water salt spray. Since I had fishing reels in mind along with weapons, I wanted to have parkerized steel, brass (reel gears are often brass) and...

With all this talk about bio based lubes I began doing some research on them and stumbled across Lubegard Premium Universal lubricant. Propaganda from their website: DESCRIPTION: LUBEGARD® PREMIUM UNIVERSAL LUBRICANT is formulated for the safe assembly and disassembly of transmissions...

I finally used my Mr Funnel water separating funnel today for the first time. I filled up my brand new jerry can with non ethanol 90 octane gas and transported it home where it sat in my shed for about a week to 10 days. Today I used this new gas can in conjunction with the funnel to fill my...

I have been pondering the idea of using a tire valve stem to vent some of my newer CARB gas cans. I was leery about how the gas may effect the rubber so I dropped one stem in a container of gas overnight. When I saw it this morning it was swollen up like a tick and the gas had a brown color like...

I have Scepter, Blitz, No-Spill, and Midwest plastic gas cans. All the cans except the Midwest are made of #2 HDPE. The Midwest can is marked as being made of #7 other plastic. Is one of these plastics superior to the others?