What to Do With Bad Gas?
#16
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Probably not a great idea...
I started flushing the toilet and dumped the stuff in on top, usually I'm much more green than that.
I started flushing the toilet and dumped the stuff in on top, usually I'm much more green than that.
#17
Donate it to a charity and write it off at $4 / Gallon. Or better yet, put it in an old expendable gas can, then put it in the back of a pickup, and drive over to the nearest WalMart. Problem solved.
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I usually maintain about 20 gallons of gas for my hurricane reserve. When H-cane season is over, I pour it into my Aerostar minivan and burn it up. Gawd it knocks and pings! Who cares: It's a crappy '97 Aerostar afterall!
Well, this year I wound up with a few gallons left and a generator sitting bored. I thought I should just pull the starter handle and let it run until it quit, but I decided differently; I let the generator run out of gas, and then put everything away. I timed it to see just how much gas it uses. It's actually pretty efficient.
I used to just add it to my used engine oil; Pep-Boys or Autozone will always take the used Persian tea, but I make a point of telling the owner/manager that I 'm dropping off the used oil. So far, the gas has been poured into the Ford Aerostar minivan, powered by the 3.0 vulcan engine. The Vulcan is a garbage bargain basement engine that Ford developed in the '80's for their Taurus automobiles. It works, but nothing more can be said about it.
A perfect place for used oil; dirt-ball used American engine way outside of its' warrantee period!
Anyway, Pep-boys is pretty receptive to taking used oil.
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Well, this year I wound up with a few gallons left and a generator sitting bored. I thought I should just pull the starter handle and let it run until it quit, but I decided differently; I let the generator run out of gas, and then put everything away. I timed it to see just how much gas it uses. It's actually pretty efficient.
I used to just add it to my used engine oil; Pep-Boys or Autozone will always take the used Persian tea, but I make a point of telling the owner/manager that I 'm dropping off the used oil. So far, the gas has been poured into the Ford Aerostar minivan, powered by the 3.0 vulcan engine. The Vulcan is a garbage bargain basement engine that Ford developed in the '80's for their Taurus automobiles. It works, but nothing more can be said about it.
A perfect place for used oil; dirt-ball used American engine way outside of its' warrantee period!
Anyway, Pep-boys is pretty receptive to taking used oil.
N!
#20
I had five cars to scrap out with unusable gas. I burned it in a steel bowl, about three gallons at a time. Beats letting it get in the ground water. Takes about 20 min. to burn 3 gal..
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Originally Posted by macreel
Call it vintage, aged 'quarter mile' accelerant and put it on Ebay.
G'luck.
p.s. save it for Burning Man 2007, in Nevada.
G'luck.
p.s. save it for Burning Man 2007, in Nevada.
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I have run it in boring cars a gallon at a time, mixed with fresh gas. Sometimes the fire department training center will take it, I've heard. Never tried that.
#26
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Make some cool mushroom cloud explosions!
Put gas in a plastic bag with an ignitor. Put the bag in an giant wok bowl. Fire remotely as people run by...
I was an extra on 'The Hunted', when it was filming here in Portland. I'm visible for 2 seconds or so.
Put gas in a plastic bag with an ignitor. Put the bag in an giant wok bowl. Fire remotely as people run by...
I was an extra on 'The Hunted', when it was filming here in Portland. I'm visible for 2 seconds or so.