The secret to getting power equipment to start on the first pull isn't hauling it in for $50 to $90 tune-ups. It's all about the gas, which begins to degrade as soon as you pump it. After a couple of months (never mind a whole winter), it will gum up the carburetor, and you could shred a rotator cuff trying to start your mower. There's a simple solution: a few drops of fuel stabilizer. One $6 bottle of Sta-bil has kept my tools purring like lions for two years and counting.
-Josh Garskof (clipped from the article on mowing from the magazine Money)
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