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I'm getting to the point where I avoid most of these threads because of the controversy they seem to generate. I'll just tell you this: In the 30 years since I left home and got on my own, I have owned 3 chainsaws, exactly 2 LawnBoy mowers, and 4 or 5 weedeaters. I sold one of the saws because it was too big (056 Stihl) and still own the other two, an 028 and a 017. Never, ever, has there been an engine failure with any of my 2 cycle tools...EVER! My first lawnboy mower suffered the ravages of a teenage son and the deck/frame were trashed....the engine ran fine when I junked it about 15 years ago. I still have the Lawnboy I bought to replace the first one. The weedeaters I have bought all ran fine.....everything else falls apart. My outboard is a 1950-52 Goodyear 5 horsepower, made by Evinrude....it runs like a new one. I use a 40:1 mix in everything and have bought every brand of oil you can imagine...mostly quarts of 'outboard' oil. Sure as h*ll can't prove it by me that any harm has been done. I always figured if the oil was fit to run in an $8,000 outboard, it was good enough for my $79 weedeater. I have never read anything about the LawnBoy/Evinrude Oil Refinery (both were made by Outboard Marine Corp..OMC). Nor have I ever heard of of the Stihl Oil Refinery. Fact is, these branded oils are made by some major producer and squirted into their little green or orange cans. Go ahead and tell me it's all made to every makers secret formula and that is the key. Okay, key to what? Based on my 30 years of experience, all of the brands and TYPES have worked equally well. The stuff I have now...don't even know the brand (or care) is a bottle of red colored oil in one of those squeezy bottles and was bought at Lowe's. I just happened to be there shopping and needed some 2 cycle oil. I've mixed 3 or 4 gallons with it and no gremlins have crawled out the can yet and the mower and weedeater run like always. Go figure. I just wonder why if everybody is so uptight about buying branded 2 cycle oil.....why the h*ll don't don't they buy 'Oldsmobile Oil' or 'Buick Oil' or Toyota Oil, or Lincoln Oil or whatever brand vehicle they drive? Oh, that's different! Yeah, right...LOL!
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