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What Synthetic oil should i buy.

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  1. Fanatical1

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    I use stihl ultra also, but would like to find a lower cost full synthetic to try..... I usually buy a gallon
    at a time. Ultra was $61.00 last time I bought it.

    With the big backpack blowers, string trimmer and saw, I use a little more than 20 gal./year.
     
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  2. clemsonfor

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    If I could of bought a qt of royal purpal 2 stroke local id be running it. I kind am with the guy saying that its all probably my from just one or two distributors.
     
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  3. clemsonfor

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    Ouch!! They like it!
     
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    Amazon has royal purple hp 2 stroke for about $17 shipped..its a quart..
     
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    Rocky Mountain atv is where I usually get mine. I'll buy a gallon or split an order with someone local to get free shipping. I probably used 30-35 gallons of mix last year and maybe 10 so far this year. When I get home in a few weeks I'll be going through 5 gallons or so finishing milling the cherry I have.
     
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    Why don't you just order some Bel-Ray off of the Bay? Easy peasy?
     
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    Cause I can get some am soil delivered even one qt cheaper than belray. Gonna get some amsoil
     
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    I didn't know if you would end up doing that? It's well worth it, IMO.
     
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    Didnt someone say klotz is noxious/ smells bad.
     
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    If you dont like race gas scent, this is not for you................................
     
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    I got my 660 from Mdavlee, that's what he ran it, I believe. I love the smell of it. It's finely losing that smell. It was a sweet smell...
     
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    I got sick from it once holding a 066 head high and in high 90 heat.
     
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    The original didn't bother me. R50 is a little annoying milling with no breeze. Stihl ultra I can run for 15 minutes and have a headache for hours.
     
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    Well I do plenty of cutting g when its over 90f!!! Just not head high. But most times in the woods with little breeze
     
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    I bought a small jug (12.8 oz) of Husqvarna XP oil. It says it's synthetic, and I imagine it's fine. $6.38 plus tax
     
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    I think its semi syn?
     
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    I have the same oil And read semi syn on the bottle. If I remember right I read a post where Randy "mastermind" and Terry Landrum said that oil was one of the worse ones that caused carbon deposits. I ran out exclusively for years at 40:1 and do not see carbon issues but I did not idle lots and ran it cutting wood and also used maybe 4 gallons a year in my saw max back then.
     
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  20. cory@owen

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    Anybody try motul (800 I think)? My buddy runs it. Doesn't smell bad to me.
     
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