Chapter 1 Safety Rules - Honda GX160 Operational Manual

Chapter 1 Safety rules

Make sure fully understand all the safety tips as follows:
If used in accordance with this manual, it will be run
safely and reliably. Please read carefully and
understand all of them before operation, or it may
cause body damage or machine damage.
*Please read carefully before operation.
· Before starting, do inspect before operation(details please see Page) in case of causing
property loss or body damage.
· In order to avoid fire & assure good ventilation, the engine shall be at least 1.0 meters
away from building and other equipment during operation.
· The children and animals shall be far away from the area of operation, in order to avoid
burning by spare parts of engine or harmed by the engine.
· Learn how to shut off the engine and all the controlling components quickly. Only the
trained person can operate the engine.
· Keep the flammable material away from the running engine, like gasoline, firewood.
· Do refuel after stopping the engine in a good ventilation. The fuel oil is quite easy to flame
up, even cause explosion.
· Do not overfill the fuel tank. The place around fuel tank mouse shall be clean, not with
fuel.
· Make sure the fuel tank cap tighten up.
· If fuel is spilt, wipe it away carefully and wait until the fuel has dried before starting the
engine.
· Make sure there is not smoking, fire or spark around the place for refueling the engine or
stocking the fuel oil.
· To avoid sucking the poisonous carbon monoxide exhausting from the engine, never use
the engine indoors or in a poorly ventilated area.
· The engine should be operated on a table level surface. If the engine is tilted from surface
above 20 degree, fuel spillage may result.
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