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It only came to me this morning, while in the shower - this seems a good place for clear thinking.

Yesturday, i filled up my 10 litre jerry can with 98 octane BP ultimate to go mow the weeds front and back where im staying.

The advertised price was $1.65 a litre.

I filled the can till the nozzle automaticly cut out, ie FULL.

the bill came to $23... I paid and walked on, not thinking about it.

$23 / 10 litres = $2.30 a litre OR the pump is sevearly miscalebrated (probably on purpose) I'd hate to think what the error in their favour would of been if a w116 was filled there.

PB,
the fact you use 98 in your lawn mower is hilarious (i too am guilty!)

The fact of the matter is, on crappy, small engines such as lawn mowers and the like, the ignition timing is fixed, does not even advance or retard and is factory set for rubbishy regular unleaded. So in actual fact, absolutly no benifit is gained from using ultimate in such engines, other than perhaps it running cooler.

Does that stop me ? Hell no.

I used to run my old lawn mower off a BBQ cylinder (lpg) a 9kg cylinder would keep the lawns mowed for about a year.

98 Octane stores for longer before it goes "stale" so there is good logic for fuel that is not used quickly - mind you I think 95 is almost as good.

Either the pump is severely in need of calibration or your container has swelled - was it a plastic jerry-can?

Bill

Pat, did the receipt say how many litres was pumped?

On the grounds of what WGB said, 10L would be less than full, especially on plastic jerry's.

Hang on - "I used to run my old lawn mower off a BBQ cylinder (lpg) a 9kg cylinder would keep the lawns mowed for about a year."  ya what!!!  How?

The can is indeed plastic, but thats a serious amount of swelling to make it take that much more, Ill have to check it out.

Re the LPG lawn mower, it's dead easy - you have no throttle control though, i ran the cylinder with a regulator and a flow control valve, removed the fuel tank and plumbed the lpg into the fuel intake line. dialed in precisely enough flow for what would be required at full throttle and went on my way. 99% of the time it started intantly and always ran perfectly. What killed it in the end was the starter cord ripping and i got fed up starting it with a drill.

The reason for the lpg was that the carby was stuffed/needed a rebuild. it was internaly leaking and never sucked the petrol though so it was the only way i could get it working. (without spending money on it, which i refuse to do on something chinese)

hahaha...man i have tears rolling down here. that is too funny.
anyway my half a dollars worth of inflationary 2 cents is to take the said jerry can and go back and refill and if its not right take it up with owner and tell the papers and all and sundry and create a big hulaballo