I've only been a home owner for three years now, so I havn't had my own power equipment for that long, but every year I have just added stabil (the red stuff) to my equipment at the end of the season, run it for about 5mins. and that's it. Haven't had any issues yet. However, I also run some sea foam in my gas all year round, and a splash of outboard 2stroke oil as well, so that may be helping too. I've always been afraid to run the carb dry, thinking that your never going to get every drop of gas out of the carb, and any air that gets in there over the winter might help accelerate the varnish process. And unfortunately, the closest gas station with non-ethanol gas is about 30mins. from my house, so it doesn't pay to run that stuff either.
Draining the Carb for Storage
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