Boomyal
Supreme Mariner
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- Aug 16, 2003
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A beautiful warm day here in the PNW, I hauled out the now 16 y/o SRM2300 Echo String edger to spiff up my yard. While doing so I had time to reflect that this tool has never had it's spark plug changed in its' whole life. And here, the first time starting it for the season, I choked it, pulled the starter three times, it fired and off I was off to do the yard.<br /><br />This tool has been used every week during the summer for its' whole life<br /><br />What's the point you say? Well back in the mid 70's some enterprising guy told me about synthetic oil. It sounded too good to be true but I decided to try it out anyway. He'd probably told many people b4 he got one that listened. My string edger has been running on 100:1 synthetic oil for, count em, 16 years on the original spark plug.<br /><br />So LubeDude, keep telling your story. A few will listen and think back fondly of you many years later. The way I see it when the first guy figured out that if he slopped some of that black natural goo on his cart axle, it would last longer and pull easier. Probably many around him thought he was nuts because it wasn't blessed by the medicine man.