I’ve been doing the Web site in this format and appearance since January, 2008. That will be nine years next month. My first WordPress post was to plug an original Arlo & Janis cartoon being sold on eBay by “Ken in Framingham,” a friend and reader then and now. Ken is in the retail comics business in Worcester, Massachusetts, and—as I noted way back in 2008—he likes the “saucy” ones. That would include the above, I assume. Of course, before this version of the Web site appeared, there were others. I’ve been throwing up something on the Web since 2004. OK, perhaps a poor choice of words, but the point is we’ve been here on a regular basis, many of us, for over 12 years. And that’s just more-or-less steady posting. I’ve been dabbling on the Web for more than 20 years. Is that not incredible? I am grateful for all of you who’ve been with me online, today and over time. I really can’t believe how quickly it is passing. Whatever changes come in the new year, I hope we’ll all be here come 2027. I plan to be!
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on Snow Blowers turn off the fuel valve and run the carb. dry.
At the end of the season run the tank dry – this is opposite of the old days.
Bit late to the party, but the 13,000 pennies came up because of this lady who used them as flooring, and bad math ensued. Nice floor though.
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Perhaps I’m just lucky, but I leave my snowblower with whatever fuel may be in it all year ’round. It never gives me grief. Uses gasoline with a spot of oil added. The gasoline is regular and may or may not have ethanol – I buy whatever the station has.
Hard to imagine ethanol as being corrosive. However, during its combustion, I suppose there may be some acetic acid produced en route carbon dioxide. That acid, quite weak, could be somewhat corrosive at higher temperatures. It is the same acid found in vinegar at a concentration of about 4%, maybe 5%, in water.
“Weak”, for acids and bases, refers to percentage of ionization when in water solution; it does not refer to concentration at all.
I may be wrong, but 10% ethanol seems too dilute to be significantly hygroscopic. In view of the fact that burning gasoline produces a lot of water [from the hydrogen atoms in the fuel], a smidgen more water from the ethanol – if it is hygroscopic in fuel – ought not make much difference.
More opinion, not at all researched by me: I’d think the gasoline would be more of a threat to rubber or rubber-like parts than ethanol would be. It is a matter of matching polarities of the molecules. Again, I could be wrong – that has been known to occur!
Ghost, every Village needs a mystery…
The best to you, too, ursen.
Mindy, yep, the whole penny flooring thing has been hilarious, but a little sad, too. Anyone can have a brain hiccup, but ALL those people? C’mon, folks, move the decimal two places.
Thanks for the memories.
Just got up. -8F, W breeze, slight haze, splendid sun-dogs. Peace,