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i got the 800 this year, just for the same reason. only tested it on 1 tank of fuel, but it started ok and was quite quiet. not that i would like it running at night. but it worked well so its sat in the shed on the off chance i might do more than 2 days wild camping.

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Are these things 2 strokes? If so, make sure that you drain out the tank; don't leave them full of fuel (just for emergancies...)

You want to run them with the fuel trained off so that the carb is empty. If you don't, you'll find that they tend to "lacquer" up and will refuse to start until you have taken the whole lot to bits and cleaned everything thoroughly.

All fuels go "stale" or "off".  There are chemicals that you can add to fuel to prolong its shelf life and the stuff is used by the Military and Survivalists. It's almost as if the most volatile part of the fuel has disappeared. ready mixed 2 stroke fuel is the greatest offender on this one

If your unit was hard to start then it's reasonable to assume that the fuel had gone off. Drain it off and next time you have a fairly good tankful in your car, use it in there

This bit of advice goes for chain-saws, brush-cutters, in fact, for all small engines. The amount of money that lawn mower service people make every Spring is usually down to this factor. I have had it happen to me... I watched the guy drain out the old fuel, stick in some new and Vroom! away it went - I felt pretty stupid because I knew what I should have done.

I still think that the best way to stop these things, be they Gennie's, chainsaws, outboard motors is to stop the fuel supply. So that there is nothing in the carb. This is just a personal opinion and not necessarily recommended by the manufacturers

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If you run the machine out of fuel then you won't have to worry

Carb cleaner might work: Personally, I'd strip the machine down and do the job properly