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If you buy a typical cheap ebay 'aftermarket' copy carb, then buy two or three while you're doing so, as sure as eggis is eggs, the first two will be shite...unless you are lucky.

Trumps apparently worth $7bn. He could have donated that himself still had $750m, which he's unlikely to spend as he's going to die soon, plus he has his golf clubs and his free jet, and that all important ballroom. He's not a hero or a leader, he's a conman. Not unlike Farage.

Unfortunately it’s the nanny state not allowing some platforms, obviously adult content etc. YouTube will be no problem 👍

Looking for an after market carb to fit my trusty old saw and there lies the problem. It's a Zama c1q s119B. From my research it would seem that there was not an after market carb produced for this one. I don't want to pay £100 for an oem carb for an old saw. someone recommended Rowena motors, but they were unable to help. I'm thinking that there must be another after market carb which will fit my saw. There seem to be some that look exactly the same as mine. I'm no expert so don't want to take a punt on one. I've had lots of help on here in the past from spudulike and others which have helped me to keep my saw running well so i'm hoping someone might have an idea how to solve this problem. A little information which suggests to me it might be a carb issue. It will start and idle one day, but the next day it might start but then stall at idle after a few seconds or perhaps a minute. I can keep it running with some throttle, but then it will cut out if I take my finger off the throttle. Adjusting the L screw in or out does not cure the problem, neither does turning the idle screw in to increase the idling revs. If I turn the idle screw all the way in the chain does not run on the bar as I would have expected it to. It's also producing a fair amount of white smoke on starting up and it's burning through fuel very quickly. On a day when it does start and run, there is no issue with bogging on acceleration. Any help would be gratefully received.

Hi. I am certainly NOT 'landed gentry' - just very lucky ! 20 years ago I bought an old mill house in central France and Hornbeam was a necessity for the mill. We still have the mill gear but sadly no millstream ! When it was working, one of the gears on the mechanism is made of cast iron whilst the teeth on the corresponding cog were made of Hornbeam (as above - it's very hard). That way if for any reason there was a jam all the wooden teeth broke (rather than cast against cast). Replace all the teeth and it was up and running again in about 1/2 an hour with very little effort - genius eh? Very common round these parts. I can put some pictures up if you want ?

11 officers ffs 🤦 are you joking

Says who ?? The SNP have pulled off some proper ludicrous senseless bans up here including with wood burners as you know, they baled out of that after realising that the creature Harvey who pushed it was potentially gonna cost them dearly at the ballot box in rural areas. On a serious note why anyone is still burning imported coal on an open fire in this day and age is beyond me. There are loads of good multi fuel stoves that are far more efficient than an open fire, you are unfortunately not gonna get away from the fact that the emissions from domestic coal burning are not something that’s gonna rub in 2025. In the new property im moving to the first task will be to remove the existing multi fuel fire ( I absolutely refuse to buy imported coal) and fit a new Morso 6843 the same stove we’ve had for the last 14 years in our current property, brilliant bit of kit and once hot you get virtually zero smoke. I don’t give a damn about a couple of grand, that will soon be recouped burning free milling waste or wind blown sourced logs.

Bit strange that her attacker hasn't seemilngly been charged with anything. Court system is stuffed, though. Plus, howay? The Daily Hate Mail isn't a good source for news.

I get it and completely understand , then I read it through again, and whopper choppa was referring to for being sold to.flip flops . Im referring to log splitters cooking themselves. See you've answered yourself decent size oil reservoir, most sub ten ton diggers and log splitters dont have that, so all the machinery ive brought has oil coolers fitted from factory standard

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/simular-releases-mac-os-ai-agent-raises-21-5m-from-felicis-with-windows-coming-soon Looks like anyone in an admin role is stuffed. It also looks like the capacity to create bogus user accounts on forums is stronger than ever.

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To an extent yes but a car that is post 1975 manufacture has to pass a visual smoke test. In fact it is likely the burning of wood will be made more expensive. We already see that the cost of a chimney lining is often more expensive than the stove, add to that a mandatory, annual chimney clean and inspection by a HETAS approved chimney sweep (and just like at an MOT he will refuse to sweep a stove-chimney combo that doesn't have certification). Next will be the requirement to fit an electrostatic filter, just like cars having catalytic converters, for a couple of thousand pounds. This will add to the electricity bill like an old incandescent light left on permanently. Apart from the cost I would have one. Then it could be illegal to sell a house with non compliant chimneys or stoves, already the case in Denmark, cheaper to dump the stove and remove the chimney. I expect HETAS requirements have already caused people to get out of selling firewood. The thing is before the internet air pollution in towns only measured SO2, NO2 and CO, then about 5 years later particulates came into the frame and were measured by how much they greyed filter paper, then came the laser particulates counters and PM10 were first mentioned but it was realised the hairs in nostrils trapped the bigger bits so it was PM2.5 that were targeted. Now we have the situation where the advertising standards agency have (rightly) banned advertisements by stove manufacturers saying that modern stoves emit less particulates if burning dry wood, true but they didn't provide proof.

I built a power pack a few years ago to run log splitters, it has a 60litre tank and runs 15/30 suto. I was worried oil getting hot so I fitted a cheap hot water pipe thermostat and cable tied it to ram to keep an eye on it runs at around 40-50 deg c depends how hot day is.

With the paint peeling and all that rust it could be in the same class as a Land Rover😳

Can't ban open fires unless you are willing to spend, lets say £2k in every house that has one to remove it and the chimney (to prevent it being opened up again after), and redecorate (also to include those with wood burners fitted to prevent them being taken out and an open fire being used instead). Easier to control the sale of new burner... though they could of course encourage installing a more efficient stove instead of an open fire somehow. The logic kind of applies to cars - not banning older less efficient vehicles but any new ones have to meet mre stringent minimum standards

You must be landed gentry to own 50 hornbeam pollards that big or have a very long driveway? 😐 Can you re-pollard them to reduce the chance of them falling over?

As you wish. Yes oil does get hot and may require oil coolers but the way it gets hot is as I explained. My tractor based grapple loader ran from 1983 to present with no oil cooler because the duty cycle coupled with a well sized reservoir meant the oil never got above blood temperature.

There is something political going on as technically all this "ban wood burners" doesn't make sense. Why would you not control open fires but you would ban older but cleaner wood burners? Why rather than trying to ban anything would you not look at reducing the particulate emissions? It is not like there are no products out there that do that. A very brief google get you: The ePURO, filter for wood burning stoves - Schiedel Chimney Systems Ltd. SHOP.SCHIEDEL.COM The ePURO, filter for wood burning stoves - The fine dust filter for wood-burning appliances. Electrostatic fine dust separator for effectively reducing flue gas particles in wood-burning... If you applied the same logic the diesel and petrol engine would have been banned may years ago rather than improving their design to reduce emissions!

Lots of people are making lots of things out of Mycelium now. Furniture seems to be a favourite. I can understand that. Making electronics from mushrooms is a bit more of a stretch. Growing Mycelium - Materials Assemble MATERIALSASSEMBLE.COM Discover the world of mycelium design with Materials Assemble. Explore sustainable cultivation, natural interior panels, and... ‘Nature’s original engineers’: scientists explore the amazing potential of fungi | Fungi | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Unique properties of fungi have led to groundbreaking innovations in recent years, from nappies to electronics

That's a bit of a different argument, personally I would agree as my boiler is 3 times more expensive. But with a world of fwits, DEFRA regulations are realistically the only way you'll stop idiots or at the very least financially forcing them to fit a certified fire as a starting point, firewood education has achieved nothing other than a busted flush. Maybe change the regs to say, if the nearest two neighbour is more than 50m of you it's fine to use whatever you want.

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??????? let's leave it here fella, you totally misunderstand me, I would rip up the all stove regs if I had my way.

Mostly disagreeing with you. Because you want everyone else to be mandated to be efficient, clean burning and ecological by wasting money on more pointless R&D to achieve something that's not possible, yet your happy to not be efficient, pollute and stay warm. The fire is about as efficient as it'll ever be, there will never be much more to gain and you have to design for the absolute dumbest person running a glorified pressure cooker. Backboilers aren't going to meet DEFRA regs