2 stroke trouble starting

I was reading about thoughts on the MANTIS soil tilth machine and i noticed a few people saying they had trouble trying to start their verious machines after storing them up for any length of time!

If you want to have any 2 stroke to start quickly then ensure you drain all the fuel out of the fuel tank and run the engine until the fuel in the carb has all been used, (Then store it away)
the hard to start problem with 2 stroke engines is the oil/mix in the fuel seperates and the fuel becomes weak,
you will cause carb problems by leaving this fuel in the carbs all winter, your jets will block and you'll build up a scale on the carb inside case & needle.

For the sake of the price of new clean fuel/oil mix "is it" worth all the pulling on the cord , the damaged carb and bad fuel going through the system?

Its now this time of the year you should be servicing and cleaning your engine tools, you cant do a lot outside but you can clean the machines sparking plugs, filters, grease the moving parts, WD 40 the frame work and when you next put fuel in apart from a few pulls to get the fuel through the carp "you'll find the machine starts without dirty blue smelling smoke pouring out of it.

 

It's not just 2 stroke mix!

Unleaded petrol also goes 'off' by itself and makes my 4 stroke machinery impossible to re-start in Spring unless I siphon off the fuel and replace with fresh stuff. I've just emptied my cans, etc. into Mrs Scrungee's car (cars don't seem so fussy) and got some fresh petrol. A couple of these devices only cost me £1 from a cheapo shop.

 

I've been using this fuel additive for a few years now.

http://www.briggsandstratton.com/sh...s/Fresh Start Fuel Stabilizer Plus 100002WEB/

It really does keep petrol fresh through the winter, I normally have no problem starting the mower again in the spring.

 

This product show's that the problem is leaving fuel in the tank of 2 strokes isn't the right thing to do,
Ive verious garden machines and i make it part of the garden program to give them all a good service every year and i dont need to add another chemicle,
briggs/stratten found out years ago this was a problem and thats why they're selling another money maker,
the fuel we use these days isn(t even the same petrol as 10 years ago this is why its been found that the classic motor cycle tanks have been rotting away very quick and again you can now buy a product to add to your tank to line the metal/fiber glass tanks to stop this problem;
If your machine was worth buying in the first place!!!! it's worth taking a bit of advice and service it on a regular program,

But its your (the non starter/problem starter brigades) problem,
the answer's are all given to you here the rest is up to you.