[SeniorSitizen]

- The carb needs rebuilding.

Don't get taken on a generator as i did.



Honda EU2000i bought supposedly new at a discount price.


How does this purchasing a supposedly new generator and getting one that's been used for a previous disaster happen.



Here's part of the story. People are standing in line for generators so out of the warehouse storage facility comes a truck load of generators that have been used in a previous disaster and returned. Why can they be sold as new and get away with it. They were never registered. That's the first question Honda will ask you on warranty requests.






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[SeniorSitizen]

The difference between no back up power and a modest generator is amazing and here in Maine those down times often happen in winter when heat is far more important than our refrigerators.

Bud

That heat you mention is exactly why our house has a propane wall furnace in the basement that takes nothing but a match to fire up and it operates on its own thermopile gen power, and let me tell ya it's come in mighty handy during ice storms.



Some may question why i would spend a thousand bucks for a ( maybe use ) it a dozen times in my life. To me its insurance and I question the same scenario why someone pays possibly a million for home owner's insurance or auto insurance that may never be used.:smile:


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[SeniorSitizen]

I bought my 5000 watt generator from an online yard sale site for $125.

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That's one disadvantage of portable, they can be too portable for sticky fingers and destined for a garage sale.

 

[SeniorSitizen]

I figure the adverse corollary to Murphy's Law applies... if I buy one, I'll never need it

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And did ya know hail storms can be prevented in a similar way. Work ass half off moving stuff so a vehicle can be garaged because of a hail forecast. The next A. M. while having coffee you and brother in-law can boast " we dam sure stopped that hail storm "