Re: Mobil 1 in a lawnmower...

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <Pine.OSF.3.95.990329124225.7068N-100000@sylvia.hlo.dec.com> "G. Benedikt Rochow" writes:

> It occurred to me recently that I've badly neglected oil changes
> on our ~5-year-old lawnmower; I don't have its manual anymore,
> nor a clue as to the weight of oil one would use. Considering
> the low cost of the small amount of oil it would use, what
> exact variety of Mobil 1 did you use?

0W30.  It's not going to go into any of my _real_ engines, so the
lawnmower got it.  I think the instructions require a much heavier oil,
but the lawnmower cost me nothing and ha almost zero oil in when I got
it, so things are better now than then.

> (What sort of engine does it have - Briggs&Stratton, like
> 90% of the mowers in Western Europe and the US? :)

Yeah.  Instruction book's in Flemish - not one of my strengths.

Damned awkward starter - pulls horizontally.  Couldn't they afford
to put an idler roller in?

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