I wouldn't haul it around because they are often heavy and usually clumsy. You won't hurt anything but fuel or oil sloshing around. If there is a chance rain or snow could end up on it I'd sure drape a tarp over it. And as a matter of prevention, it won't hurt to spray your favorite brand of lubricant around any linkage. When the linkage gets rust on it, things don't work like they should...
If you haven't already, you can build a sort of cart for it. I have mine on 4 wheels because I got tired of having to move it. Without wheels, I could never pick a good place to leave it. Now I don't have to worry. I can't say about air movement, thus exhaust. But fire it up with the cords through the opening and see what you notice. I've had carbon monoxide poisoning a couple times before. It's nothing to mess with. Run the engine and if you are able to smell fumes in the house, you'll have to try something else. Don't worry, you'll smell the exhaust way before you'll be poisoned. But once you smell the exhaust, don't wait for the other... ----- Original Message ----- From: William Stephan To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 5:40 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] A Generator Storage Question Bob, thanks. I haven't owned or work with one of these in many years, so I'm interested in why you wouldn't haul the thing around much. Is moving it around likely to cause the fuel to slop around a lot, or the generator or engine oil to slop? I think I've got enough ventilation, but here's the configuration. The foyer is right outside a fairly tight door, I'm not real sure what it's made from. There is, as I said, a cat door in this door which would be open enough to accommodate a couple extension cords. If you were to open the door from the basement and turn left, you'd be facing a flight of stairs with no cover or anything. To your left would be a solid wall, part of the exterior of the house. On your right would be a solid concrete wall about six or seven feet high opening onto the yard itself. To the rear would be a similar wall. The foyer itself is maybe three feet square, and air seems to flow down into it pretty well. Would it be good to put a tarp on the generator when not in use, or might that cause buildup of fuums? Thanks for any help with this it's more of a problem than I thought it was going to be. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Kennedy Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 15:45 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] A Generator Storage Question I don't think I'd haul it around a lot. You can leave it where it is as long as it is out of the weather. If you are using stabilizer you shouldn't have to start it often. But if you can run it once a month for 5 or 10 minutes that won't be a bad thing. This storage area does have a way to vent the exhaust? Right? Otherwise you'll have a real problem when you run it... If you have any concerns about the exhaust, you can remove the muffler and make up an extension pipe to put the muffler outside. Typically, if you are at 10 HP or above, you'll use a piece of 3/4 pipe which can thread right into the block. I've had to make these extensions up for people that wanted a generator in their motor homes. ----- Original Message ----- From: William Stephan To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 4:35 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] A Generator Storage Question So, I finally got the 10 gauge extension cord, the oil, the gas, the gas stabilizer etc. for my 3.5KW generator from Aldis. I tested it yesterday and things worked fine, it runs off an engine with a cast iron block, so it's not nearly as noisy as I expected. Our house has a set of steap concrete stairs leading from the backyard down to a foyer with a door into the basement. This foyer is sheltered, and there's actually a sort of awning or canapee that prevents water from running down into it. There happens to be a cat door in the connecting door, so my plan is to run the generator in that outdoor foyer, run the cables through the cat door and inhabit the basement if things get dicey. So, my question is this: Can I store a generator like this over the long term in the kind of sheltered foyer I've described? I could conceivably, easily enough wheel the thing on a hand truck and keep it in the basement proper and move it when I need to, but I'm superstitious about having four or so gallons of gas stored right under the living room. Would you guys suggest running this every month or so? Thanks for any ideas on this one. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
