This.
It doesn’t need to be that precise.
A reagular kitchen teaspoon isn’t the same as a measuring teaspoon. Go to a pharmacy and ask for a mudicine syringe. Likely they will just give it to you. If not, they are cheep. I used to buy them at my vet’s office for less than fifty cents.
Another vote for the syringe. Any pharmacy should be able to give you one for free, and as mentioned above, 5 mL= 1 teaspoon = exactly what you need. They look like this. Suck some up with the plunger and squirt it into your gas can. I imagine the stabilizer will mess up the syringes after a while, so ask the pharmacist for a few.
Yeah, perhaps, but if you were adding oil to gas for a 2 stroke engine, you do need some precision. So it’s not a bad question.
My 30 year old weedeater runs just and I have eyeballed the oil since it was new. If I do add too much, it will smoke a bit while running.
Ayuh. Once I put twice as much oil into the gas can as I should have. For the rest of the summer, whenever I filled the trimmer, I filled half the tank with gas from that can, and half with unmixed gas from the can I keep for my mower. Presto! Correct ratio, more or less, close enough, meh.
…but don’t put it back in the utensil drawer when you are done. Ever. :eek:
(this goes for liquid funnels too)
This was my thought: Get a fuel can, mark it with a sharpie as for that unit only, fill it & mix in it. Always mix your fuel in a can & not in a gas tank.
Gas cans are Lots less expensive than generators to replace and if you need more than one gallon’s worth of time with generator power, there you go.
If you’re going to err with 2 cycle oil, it’s always better to do it on the side of extra than not enough. At worst it’ll smoke more and potentially foul your plug a little, but it won’t fry your bearings or anything like that.
It’s probably not that important just how accurate the stabilizer is; it’s a chemical mixture that basically sacrificially oxidizes itself so that the gas doesn’t oxidize and varnish, emulsifies water, and inhibits corrosion. Too little, and you’ll probably just not be stabilized as long, too much, and you probably don’t get much if any longer stabilization. It’s certainly unlikely to damage anything, but probably doesn’t help any past a certain concentration.
I imagine you’d have to have a very large amount to materially affect a carbureted small engine- as in multiple ounces per gallon.
Outboard engines tend to be a bit more finicky, in my experience. You don’t want any more crud than necessary hanging around in the carburetor. At least that’s the advice from the old salts down at the yacht club. If your weed whacker is hard to start, you just curse a bit. If your outboard doesn’t start – it can really be a problem.
I bought one of those on a whim. I use the thing all the time in cooking.