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Title: Re: 2 stroke engines and dodgy petrol
Post by PlanesPete on Apr 21^st, 2012 at 2:35pm

To convince a friend, I refilled a strimmer with the Alas petrol. It started and ran for about 5 minutes and then lost power and revs until it stopped and wouldn't start again. Refilled with the Repsol stuff and squeezed the primer to flush the old stuff out and restarted immediately and ran fine.