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My "Tennessee Linemen" asked if I had any gasoline and I gave them the can I use for the lawn tractor containing about a gallon. When they gave it back to me, they warned my wife "tell your husband not to use it. It'll ruin his engine!". I was in the house at the time. Two questions. 1. What is in there? My guess is two-cycle mixture for the chainsaws they used to free up the power line. 2. How do I get rid of it? By chance, I do have another gas can (metal - very heavy, Army Jerry can) and I suppose I could pour the mixture into that, still leaving me with two problems: Where do I dump that, and more important, how can I clean the plastic gas can to get rid of the residue that I'm sure will gum up my engine and fill the air with oil smoke? Luckily, I don't use that gas in my car with fuel injection. Bye bye injectors. BTW - my landline is still down, buried under fallen trees.
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Contaminated gas can
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I've found that kerosene works decently for cleaning out gas cans. Afterwards I pour the remains out into a drum and burn it.
I poured some on a piece of white paper and let it evaporate. Just left a stain. No oily residue. It is also a bit more greenish blue as it poured out. At any rate, I now have 5 gallons of mystery fuel that I offered to my landscapers now using chain saws and a wood chipper removing the downed trees from my yard.
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You would be arrested for doing that here.
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Put a price tag on it. They're more likely to steal it then.
What do I have to do now - buy a chainsaw? I had one some years ago. Gave it to a client of mine because I could never get it started after the first month. BTW, my landscaper did a terrific job of clearing up my property yesterday. Brought a crew of 6, chainsaws, wood chipper, leaf blowers and my property never looked so good. Now Optimum and Frontier have to show up and reset the lines.
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are there not places in the area that will accept used oil?
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I'm probably gonna take some flak for this, but why don't you put just a little bit of it at a time in your car's/truck's tank and use it up? Check this out: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-05-22-0305220254-story.html
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No flak from me. I keep a gallon can of 2-cycle gas/oil mixture in the garage for my scooters. At the end of the season I add a little of whatever is left to full tanks of gas in my car.
Since I only add very little at a time I’ve never had a problem.
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