I live in America, I have the hitachi RB24EAP which is exactly like your Tanaka but green, and it really blows! My uncle has a 4 stroke Hand held blower and my hitachi beat the crap out of it lol
The only problems with these isn't directly the tool itself, but I notice that the high ethanol petrol will wear them out about 3x as fast as without. I am a small engines mechanic so I have seen these affects 1st hand on tools gardeners use when they put in cheap fuel.
Jack Ferguson Agree 100% - Ethanol is a killer. I never use it. Luckily here in Australia it is not widely available. They tried to push ethanol fuel (10% only) a few years back, and you can still buy it, but there was a bit of a backlash from consumers, so few people actually used it and a lot of gas stations stopped selling it. The ones that tried to sell it exclusively quickly went back to standard petrol supply. Definitely keep ethanol petrol out of your garden tools. If you MUST use it, be sure to add a fuel stabiliser and only buy enough to use within a week, otherwise it attracts too much water, which is what does a lot of the damage to engines, and exhausts on cars.
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I live in America, I have the hitachi RB24EAP which is exactly like your Tanaka but green, and it really blows! My uncle has a 4 stroke Hand held blower and my hitachi beat the crap out of it lol
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The only problems with these isn't directly the tool itself, but I notice that the high ethanol petrol will wear them out about 3x as fast as without. I am a small engines mechanic so I have seen these affects 1st hand on tools gardeners use when they put in cheap fuel.
Jack Ferguson Agree 100% - Ethanol is a killer. I never use it. Luckily here in Australia it is not widely available. They tried to push ethanol fuel (10% only) a few years back, and you can still buy it, but there was a bit of a backlash from consumers, so few people actually used it and a lot of gas stations stopped selling it. The ones that tried to sell it exclusively quickly went back to standard petrol supply. Definitely keep ethanol petrol out of your garden tools. If you MUST use it, be sure to add a fuel stabiliser and only buy enough to use within a week, otherwise it attracts too much water, which is what does a lot of the damage to engines, and exhausts on cars.
Thanks it's very helpful from New Zealand