I've never noticed a performance difference using different oils.

 

The best you'll ever get is more complete and cleaner combustion, possibly less smoke. Also you would expect less carbon fouling of the plug, less need to clean the exhaust piping and spark arrester and the like. NOT more power right out of the gate. You may find the power doesn't degrade as fast, as it is less likely to plug the exhaust as quickly, it isn't something you'll notice on its own.

BTW, I bought some too, haven't needed it yet, still have a gallon or so with the Stihl stuff in it.

 

The only difference is the smell between them red armor is more smelly possibly from the amount of detergents in it.

 

I've never noticed any smell from either or any smoke. Exhaust is always clean, no gummy oil residue.

BTW, I run WOT the majority of the time, cutting overgrown grass and weeds.

 

You going to notice a lot less gunk out the ports so better performance if you run light on the throttle mostly.

If all you doing is running WOT then no difference.

I run Red Armor on all my trimmers cause they usually run easy on the throttle. The bp blowers still run cheapest possible oil as they all run WOT mostly

 

I run the cheap stuff and have no problems at all. I run this trimmer between light throttle and wide open so i see no need in expensive boutique oils.

 

Since I started using red armor everything smells better and I have had no carb build
up in my handhelds.

 

Same here!

 

I've never really noticed a difference except the red armor looks cooler imho

 

I believe what Red Armor oil offers is more "stiction" than their standard oil. That would be, how good the oil sticks to the surfaces on the inside of the engine. Thats one thing that I remember someone mentioning on a chainsaw forum. If you did a tear down on an engine that used red armor, there would be a red film on the internal parts. Someone correct me if im wrong. Ive heard of some people not liking red armor or having issues, but those issues might be the cause of other problems and the operator just thinks that red armor is the cause.

 

Red Armor all the way.

 

I run Red Armor on all my trimmers cause they usually run easy on the throttle. The bp blowers still run cheapest possible oil as they all run WOT mostly

1 set of blowers for summer, one for fall cleanups.

1 type of mixed gas for trimmers, another for blowers.

You certainly enjoy making life complicated.

Unless you're just trolling.

 

Am I correct in saying Red Armor is also a gas stabilizer that would allow you to leave non ethanol gas and Red Armor mixture in trimmer over winter when not in use.

I normally drain all fuel from trimmer during winter, but maybe it's not necessary.

Is it better to drain or leave mixture during non use?

 

Is it better to drain or leave mixture during non use?

Better leave gas in it over winter. When the fuel lines and pulse pumps dry out, they tend to leak when wetted again. Better off not letting the fuel system dry out. I have never emptied my handhelds over winter. Usually start up fine come spring. If not, I dump the tank and put in fresh then.

 

Echo's is, this should be also...I believe stihl's is too, not much of one but they do have additives

 

This video answered my question..

 

Key word "fights", not "eliminates".