Today I was blowing grass off the porch & concrete after mowing and my neighbor stopped me and asked if my leaf blower was a 2-stroke. Yes it is, then he offered the advise that it's bad to run a 2-stroke at part throttle, it will kill or shorten the life of the engine. News to me, I have always used about half throttle when moving grass clippings around, if for no other reason than I don't need full throttle (unless I'm blowing wet leaves or something), and it's not as loud.
This is the same neighbor that tells me every year to turn my heat pump to the emergency heat setting when it gets cold out, so naturally I take his advise with a huge grain of salt.
Is there any smidgen of truth to the idea that it's somehow harmful to run a 2-stroke at less than full throttle? I can't imagine this being accurate; in the case of my weed eater (2-stroke Echo SRM-266) I believe it would be downright dangerous to do most of my trimming at full throttle, that thing has serious power behind it. Wonder where he got this info, anyone ever hear this before?
This is the same neighbor that tells me every year to turn my heat pump to the emergency heat setting when it gets cold out, so naturally I take his advise with a huge grain of salt.
Is there any smidgen of truth to the idea that it's somehow harmful to run a 2-stroke at less than full throttle? I can't imagine this being accurate; in the case of my weed eater (2-stroke Echo SRM-266) I believe it would be downright dangerous to do most of my trimming at full throttle, that thing has serious power behind it. Wonder where he got this info, anyone ever hear this before?