I got lucky a few years back and found a Honda 2000i nearby on CL. The plastic case was a bit scarred, but it started up and ran great. I got it for $400. I always run it dry before storage and do regular oil changes with synthetic.
I use it for camping to charge up the coach batteries when there's not enough sun for the solar power. The onboard 3.6KW LP fired Onan uses too much fuel for that purpose. Luckily we have not been without power at home for more than brief interruptions, so haven't needed the Honda at the house. They're not cheap, but an excellent unit. Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond via Mercedes Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 11:21 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Curt Raymond Subject: Re: [MBZ] Generators I've thought about one of those for camp, we've got lots of wood... Last week I used my little 2 stroke China generator to top up (read as bring back from the brink of disaster) the batteries on the camp a couple times. I bought it back in 2008 after we had an ice storm. When I bought it it ran great, started on about the third pull. I've run it maybe 3 times since then and it started easy each time. This trip the little b@$tard started out by breaking the fuel petcock right off in the tank... Fortunately Car Quest had a petcock that would work but it doesn't fit exactly right and the fuel line is stretched, which reminds me I need to replace it. I finally had to resort to starting fluid to get it to fire up and it ran like garbage for an hour or two. This is with fresh fuel mind you, all the old stuff fell out when the fuel petcock failed... It ran better after a couple hours but its still rough. I need to put some more Seafoam in the gas and run it a couple more hours before I'll call it acceptable.The nice thing about the little 2 stroke is it'll run like 2 hours on a quart of fuel. The 3k 4 stroke at camp uses twice that or more. I was also pleased that it doesn't smoke appreciably once its warmed up. -Curt From: Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Generators You need one of those hot tubs with a wood stove in it, or an Okie hot tub -- an old bathtub sitting over an open fire. --R On 11/19/15 11:47 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: > Washington St., particularly the Eastern part, got whacked with high > winds Tuesday night. Massive power outages. My rope-pull gennys have > not been behaving well, and Big Bertha was in need of minor service. > Tonight I put another used starting battery on it (it takes two---24V) > and replaced the heater hose vapor fuel line with a proper armored > line. > > I hit the switch, and it cranked. I turned on the fuel, and it fired > right up. We've bathed, are running laundry, and are watching House > of Cards on the boob tube. Very comfortable. > > The hour meter was 3.6 hours when I started it. We've already run out > 1/2 forklift tank of fuel, and it's chewing rapidly on the other one, > which was full. _Very_ expensive showers... > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
