Do you know of any tricks to stop fuel drying out.

There is a bleed screw at the bottom of the carby. If you are not going to use the genny for a while, then undo screw and drain the carby.this stops the fuel from gumming up the works.

Either put fuel stabiliser in the unleaded or do what the manual says and drain the fuel between extended uses. I do that and leave the genet on the compression stroke to seal the bore. Never have a problem one year to the next

If you run your outboard out of fuel, as do I, why not just do the same for your genny? I siphon as much as I can from the fuel tank to use in the mower, chainsaw or whatever and then just let it run the rest right out until it stops. I did read somewhere that doing that under load is a no no for some reason, but mine has conked out under load because it has run out of fuel with no after effects.
As a matter of fact I do that with all my petrol powered stuff, outboard, genny, mower, whipper snipper etc. I think this is particularly important with 2 stroke as the petrol will evaporate leaving the oil and gum from the residue of the fuel.

Cheers
Pop

I just drain the tank, run the genny till it quits, then open the drain screw on the bottom of the carby to drain the last teaspoon or so of fuel.

Then I put it on the compression stroke as someone else wrote.

I have been using a fuel stabilizer in all my small motors for many years & have not had one fuel related issue since.
Sta-bil is the brand name I use.
I fill the tanks of my motors to full after I use them with the correct concentration of Stabilizer & unleaded. All my gear is then redy to go when I need it & sometimes its 12 months between starts but never been an issue since I started using this.
It works fine with 2 or 4 stroke motors.

Hi pothole, havnt run a jenny for a while myself, but as per all other answers to drain and use up fuel. try giving the guts of the carby a good squirt of 'carby clean' ( any auto store). remove jets ( note how far screw in/out!) or any other bit you wish for same squirt.

on restart-we used to also put a few drops of upper cylinder lube or xtra refined oil (can be via spark plug hole) into engine that wasn't run for a long time, then crank 1-2 times - prior to starting up again, reduces dry running damage due to 'oil up' delay on start. maybe this isnt needed with more modern engines? could even run it up with a small amount of 2 stroke to start, same effect. then change to full strength.

experience with outboards was that they like a regular run and dont like stale fuel, so try just running it monthly for 5 min or so and use up a cup of fuel, put prop into a big bin of fresh water or use hose "earmuffs" -we used to always do this to flush salty water out of system after a days fishing.. this would be similar to what your doing to run it out of fuel..
MG.