Thanks for sharing that. I wonder when we will see that for more small engines like lawn mowers, etc.
Your welcome.
Lehr apparantly makes/made propane weed whackers and leaf blowers that ran on the Coleman bottles too. Some were sold under the Craftsman/Sears label. But from what I’ve read they had reliability issues. The outboards had teething issues as well when first introduced (2012), but they seem to have those under control for the 2013 and 2014 production years. LOT of sailboaters on the East Coast have them now.
The biggest downside, now anyways, is the total cost of the Coleman bottles. You pay a heck of a lot more for the bottle than the propane thats inside them (Walmart has them for a little less that $3 per, for $0.50-.60 of propane). But I already had a number of bottles from camping and picked up an adapter to refill them myself from a grill tank. I’ve since added to my small bottle inventory by grabbing empties that other campers have thrown away ...