Refueler
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Fine but why give me grief for advising a safety measure ? Given that I am not only one who advises it ...
Mariner 5hp 2 stroke - Fuel tap leak that stopped - Why?
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Fine but why give me grief for advising a safety measure ? Given that I am not only one who advises it ...
Boathook
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I test run my malta in a dustbin and would struggle to reach the prop. Your comment though does remind me to take the prop off just to make sure that it will come off !
Refueler
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Large containers are not so bad as long as you can suffer the 'splash' !!
I have a large 1 cu.m IBC I can use from my Additive works ...
Greenheart
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Thanks for the advice.
The cheap plastic trunk I used for flushing the engine last year, held about 70 litres. Until it developed a split, it was just the job. Big enough (and deep enough) that I could put the engine in gear (at idle) without drenching the garage. It was like looking at two feet of fast-moving river.
Our kitchen bin is really tiny, but much deeper. That makes it much easier to fill, (buckets, down two flights of carpeted stairs) but I believed I needed to rope the bin to the frame to keep everything rigid and the prop clear of the sides, in case by mistake I clicked it into gear. I don't know why I thought that was likely.
Having tried it, I don't see a need to take the propeller off, if the engine doesn't benefit by being in gear during flushing.
The two-stroke Mariner 5 is a great little unit. Tonight I ran it with exactly 50ml of fuel, the size of a double whisky...
...it ran for nine minutes. Thinking back to the other night, it must have been over half an hour. The neighbours hate me.
The cheap plastic trunk I used for flushing the engine last year, held about 70 litres. Until it developed a split, it was just the job. Big enough (and deep enough) that I could put the engine in gear (at idle) without drenching the garage. It was like looking at two feet of fast-moving river.
Our kitchen bin is really tiny, but much deeper. That makes it much easier to fill, (buckets, down two flights of carpeted stairs) but I believed I needed to rope the bin to the frame to keep everything rigid and the prop clear of the sides, in case by mistake I clicked it into gear. I don't know why I thought that was likely.
Having tried it, I don't see a need to take the propeller off, if the engine doesn't benefit by being in gear during flushing.
The two-stroke Mariner 5 is a great little unit. Tonight I ran it with exactly 50ml of fuel, the size of a double whisky...
...it ran for nine minutes. Thinking back to the other night, it must have been over half an hour. The neighbours hate me.
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