fixerupper
Well-known Member
I have seen this mentioned before on this forum so I am being a bit redundant here. This spring when you grab that can of carb cleaner to help get your lawn mower or old tractor going for the first time after the long winter nap, read the label on the can. Yesterday the carb cleaner wasn't making the mower engine fire. Finally I looked at the can and it was labeled non flammable. Duh. Went back to the shop and grabbed some electrical contact cleaner that was labeled highly flammable and it did the trick. The mower chugged and smoked like crazy till it had cleared it's throat of the non-flammable stuff but it did take off and run. I used a whiff of ether on this mower one time. It knocked like crazy so that was the last time it got ether.