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I've got a metal jerry can full of gasoline that is about a year old. Stored in an unheated/cooled garage. I see online that I can take it to my county's landfill for appropriate disposal, but it has to be in a container...I'm not giving them my jerry can. Let's say I use it in my lawnmower, or my vehicle, mixed at some ratio with fresh gas. Is that viable? What ratio? Any other ideas? Do parts places take the stuff? Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | ||
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| That's just the Flomax talking  |
I just pour old gas into the car after a recent fillup; not necessarily all at once. I have even done this with 2 cycle mix. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Pour it down the storm drain, like God intended. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
How big a jerry can? You have kids, I'm going to guess that you buy milk in gallon jugs. The empties are "containers," aren't they? הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| אַרְיֵה |
Followed by an M-80 left over from July 4th? הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Put it on Craigs List. Just kidding. How many gallons? I would not risk putting it in my equipment if it has not had fuel stabilzer. | |||
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Age Quod Agis |
I'd mix it with fresh and run it through my law mower. If it has no water in it, 2/3 fresh, 1/3 old shouldn't cause you any problems. The biggest problem with old gasoline is that in small amounts like those that accumulate in the jets and carb float area, it turns to a varnish like substance when it evaporates, the alcohol portion attracts water which can cause rust, and the alcohol also damages rubber, gaskets and seals. In larger, sealed quantities, if it hasn't visibly deteriorated to the point where it has globs of varnish in it, you should be able to run it through just fine. By way of example, I had a truck that I parked for two years with about 1/4 tank of gas in it as it had a dead starter. When the starter was changed out and the battery charged, it fired right up. I filled the tank, thus diluting the old gas, and ran it through without a problem. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Just use it in the mower, or jeep it'll be diluted enough for no harm to be done. You could also pour it in aclear jug, see if there's water in it before you put it in the jeep | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
Are you not supposed dump it out a gallon at a time over a large concrete area and let it evaporate? | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
It's 5 gallons. I'll pour some into a clear container and see what it looks like... Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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dump it and light it, very effective disposal  If it smells like gas, looks like gas, doesn't have water in it just use it in something. I'd pick something without a cat as my first choice and probably mix it with some fresh stuff just for risk reduction. But its not going to bother anything. “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.” | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
I’m not recommending or condoning, but the patriarch of my family poured on the joints in his concrete driveway and never had weeds growing there Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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| Just for the hell of it  |
I've poured old gas as you have into a car that had at least a half tank without issue. Fill your car up 3/4 and pour half in. Do the same next time you fill-up. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Seriously? I never would've considered this an issue. Just dump it in your car's gas tank and be on your way. Just be sure your tank is at least half full. Anyway, that's what I would do. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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I wouldn't worry too much about one year old gas. I did have to clean out a garage w/ some old cans and just took them to my county recycle center that had a hazmat section. Now that I think about it, my regular weekly garbage pick-up wouldn't take an EMPTY broken nozzled 2 gal. gas tank. I took that to the county also. | |||
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teacher of history |
Mix a gallon or 2 in with the rest of the gas in your car or use it in a mower or whatever. Throwing it away can cause great contamination to the ground water. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Yes. Gasohol (gas mixed with ethanol) is not good for your small engines. I wouldn't use it in the lawnmower, blower, or chain saw. They have tiny jets in the carbs which easily become clogged. But... mixed in with a full tank in the car it won't hurt anything. https://www.pure-gas.org/ "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
Go to Wally World and get a flat or two of mason jars with the lids. Fill the jars with your suspect gas.. Now you have some Molotov cocktails for the zombie apocalypse "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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^^^^^ This. +1. What he said. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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Same here. 1 gal to 40 is 2.5 percent mix. Won't harm in my opinion. Or, you could just pour it all in the squad car and take it to maintenance to cure the knocking!  Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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