Bruce,

This came from a lawn mowing contractor, the other 2 stroke tools
i bought from him were fine. There was 2 stroke fuel in the tank
when i bought it.
There was a lot of dirt inside the air intake in the carby, which can only get there by getting past the air filter. I prefer the
nylon flock air filters rather than the foam ones.
But this is a low end hardware shop blower so poor quality is to
be expected.

Gmax