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Please do explain how 15% crappy dry gasoline is a lubricant?

You are nit picking about things that are in the last .0001% of performance. Things that matter to a manufacturer making millions of products, not something you can determine by testing one or even ten or a hundred samples at the track and tearing them down. Again, this is not a meaningful...

And this is entirely determined by accountants and lawyers, not mechanics and engineers. Manufacturers tell you to do many things that are not in your best interest. What about all those sealed automatic transmissions they have now? Absurd. If you ran an engine that "requires" synthetic with...

I suppose you could say almost everything sold in a bottle that is discussed on this forum beyond 30wt dino oil isn't "necessary", are they? Not a single person "needs" synthetic oil, how many of you spend twice as much or more for it? Can you quantify how much longer it makes anything last? Not...

I'm boggled by how many people would do this with a push mower. Even an old used $400 rider is better than a brand new push mower. I live in a rural area where nobody has less than 1/2 acre, but lots between 1/2 and 1 acre. Never see a push mower around here except a few pros with the giant...

Every single Briggs ever made before 1980-something has points (and every other brand of engine). This has nothing whatsoever to do with timing.

Keep using it like that and the battery and the mower will have a life expectancy measured in months not years. Non repairable. It's like they replaced the typical tenant model $200 Walmart mower that lasts 10 years with an electric one that lasts one year for the same price. The guy who came up...

You get to say "Awww isn't that cute" every time you change it and now you remember which plug in your pile of spare plugs actually fits the thing now... Probably just a good way for them to raise the price, lower materials, and not have everyone freak out that their favorite plug changed.

That simply is not correct. It doesn't matter what it is attached to, an engine is an engine. I only used my generator as an example because it uses ALL of the horsepower at a known efficiency. The "3.5hp" sticker on the 79cc engine is perfectly accurate, it creates more power at any RPM than...

Or - as I see regularly as a landlord - just use the corded weedwacker with the cheapest 16ga 100' extension cord you can find and nothing else to "mow" the lawn, and then, get angry and confused at least 3 times each season when your $39 weedwacker overheats and stops working...(You coulda just...

As somebody else said this is the same power/sales category as the old Briggs "Classic" smallest/cheapest flathead. CC is not a measurement of engine output. Somebody has to sell lawnmowers to dumb tenants who don't need them to last more than a year, or have any idea what maintenance is, or how...