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    How to get rid of old petrol?

    It’s all in the title - I have around 60 litres of VERY stale petrol I need to dispose of, but can’t work out how to. My local waste
    disposal place won’t take flammable liquids so not sure what to do.

    Any ideas?

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    maybe your local rural fire brigade, we used to mix diesel and petrol for our fire lighters for backburns
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    Your lawnmower won’t care or blend slowly in a petrol car. It will happily burn
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    Blend it with fresh fuel and run it in any of your Land Rovers, they're not fussy and were designed to tolerate poorer quality fuel than that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    Blend it with fresh fuel and run it in any of your Land Rovers, they're not fussy and were designed to tolerate poorer quality fuel than that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    Blend it with fresh fuel and run it in any of your Land Rovers, they're not fussy and were designed to tolerate poorer quality fuel than that.

    same with a chainsaw?
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    How to get rid of old petrol?

    Quote Originally Posted by PerthDisco View Post
    Your lawnmower won’t care or blend slowly in a petrol car. It will happily burn
    I have used a bit in the mower but I only used 3 litres for the entire year in it so that’s going to take a while. How to get rid of old petrol?

    Most of my place is garden beds - only one small patch of grass and when this mower dies (it was the cheapest Chinese mower I could find about 5 years ago) I will be replacing it with an electric unit.

    My petrol cars are the problem to begin with - they are all pretty full and I don’t drive them often - in fact none of them have left the driveway in over a year - which is why I have this problem although the car I need to drain has fuel pushing 10 years old.

    If anyone wants some to use in their own cars and live in Melbourne - bring jerry cans and it’s yours.
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