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Old 11-12-2010 | 07:10 PM
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Default RE: Gas Engine Oil Mix

I know a lot of people will disagree but I have had great luck with regular old 2-stroke oil for air cooled engines from the hardware store. The same stuff that I use in my chain saw. I have tried the more expensive synthetics. I know they likely provide better wear protection, they don't cause as much carbon, you can run less of it, etc. but for a guy like me just "sport flying" there just wasn't enough apparent benefit to justify the added cost. My engines run excellent on weed-wacker oil.

I generally run 32:1. That comes out to 4 ounces of oil per gallon of gasoline. You can buy the oil in small containers that mix with 1 gallon, 2 gallons or 5 gallons of gasoline to give you a specific mixture. The stuff I usually use come in a bottle with a built-in measuring cup. You squeeze the bottle until the cup fills to the level you want.

Definitely do not use the Coolpower glow fuel in your DLE. In addition to the fact that it won't work right without modifying things and could cause damage, the added cost defeats the purpose of going to economical gasoline in the first place.