Excellent.....good to know. Tall timbers marina , like most marinas, carrys ethanol free gas but it's a real pita to them to go all the way out to the pumps just to fill a couple gas cans so I only do that when I'm filling the boat too.
ISO Information Ethanol free gas??
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Excellent.....good to know. Tall timbers marina , like most marinas, carrys ethanol free gas but it's a real pita to them to go all the way out to the pumps just to fill a couple gas cans so I only do that when I'm filling the boat too.
Dead Eye
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I tested Sun 94 yesterday at Cooks . It was very little ethanol in it. To test get a clear glass bottle 1/3 filled with water and mark the water line exactly, now add 1/3 gasoline be sure to leave about 1/3 free space. Roll don't shake ( reparatory funnel technique ). The ethanol will have migrated into the water and be above the mark now. The gas on top is now ethanol free. This process is called washing. Anywho the fuel tested only changed the mark just a hair above so it was about 1% . I suspect Sun puts only the minimum amount of ethanol legally required to meet specs. into there 94. Its a easy test
Goldenhawk
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Interesting discussion here about "washing" gas.
http://www.accessnorton.com/make-your-own-ethanol-free-gasoline-t14970.html
http://www.accessnorton.com/make-your-own-ethanol-free-gasoline-t14970.html
Midnightrider
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That's actually the opposite of the law/regulation. Pumps must say if they contain enthanol.
In general Citgo does not use ethanol in their fuel unless required by the locality. It will say on the pumps if there is ethanol. The Citgos I have been to in St Mary's do not have ethanol in their gas.
DEEKAYPEE8569
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The last time I bought ethanol-free gas, I went to St. Mary's Airport. It's a few $$ more, but it worked.
zar
Theist
Stoneys Clarke's landing restaurant has it in Hollywood md
The folks at Guy Brothers say that they have changed the diaphragms in the small equipment to help stand up to E10. However, they are thinner and dry out and crack if you store motor for a long time without gas. They suggest premix or non-ethanol.
Goldenhawk
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That's true - but different diaphragms will do nothing to avoid the injectors and bottom of the tank getting coated with syrup-thick orange goop that the gas becomes after a couple months. Ethanol gas is evil.
1stGenSMIB
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Drury's Marina in Ridge has ethanol free too..but you have to schlep the jerry cans down their long pier.
Discovered Ridgell's this summer (thanks to whomever already mentioned it, and they are a full service station!)
Have been using Clarke's Landing as a source as well (that pier is about 1/3rd the length of Drury's.)
One more I found by chance, the RaceWay at the Coleman Bridge on Rt 17 (Yorktown, VA) has ethanol free pumps if you are ever down that way (made a few work trips to Norfolk recently.)
I have an old sailboat with an Atomic4 gas motor, and had nothing but problems with E-10.
Great link Ken King...thanks!
Discovered Ridgell's this summer (thanks to whomever already mentioned it, and they are a full service station!)
Have been using Clarke's Landing as a source as well (that pier is about 1/3rd the length of Drury's.)
One more I found by chance, the RaceWay at the Coleman Bridge on Rt 17 (Yorktown, VA) has ethanol free pumps if you are ever down that way (made a few work trips to Norfolk recently.)
I have an old sailboat with an Atomic4 gas motor, and had nothing but problems with E-10.
Great link Ken King...thanks!
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Welp..that was a bust. We stopped in there last week with a bunch of cans...couldn't find any pumps marked as ethanol free. Went in and asked the attendant about it..got nothing but puzzled looks and "no man..all our gas has the ethanol in it".
;-( We are talking about the same place right?..the one that initially opened as a Wa Wa ?
DEEKAYPEE8569
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St. Mary's Airport has ethanol-free gas. It's 100 octane, and will cost you a few more bucks than a chain gas station, like $5-$6/Gal. (+-).....but it's ethanol-free.....
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Midnightrider
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From reading info in this thread, I thought that pumps that had ethanol were required to be labeled with the "contains ethanol" placards. the pumps at this station do not have those labels. Can anyone shed info on this? Who would one call to verify that this station was in compliance with the law. At its face value, the lack of labels would suggest that the pumps do not have ethanol. As far as the clerks go..........
Goldenhawk
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As far as I know, yes, they should be labeled. You can do your own test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbDAw4a6Ck0 (and many other similar examples)
Fifteen states don’t require stations to tell you if the gasoline contains ethanol: (alphabetically) California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Ohio.