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You’d be very surprised lad 🤔👍 There’s not much on here that is able to rile me up, possibly sick buggers like Manco and SP when they stoop to bringing daughters into the argument.

It's more than OK!

Kram, multimeter will be a Christmas gift from the outlaws, rather than a hideous shirt, so everyone is a winner on this thread!

Happy to help Mick, any time. 👍

So tax fraud is OK?

@Steve Bullman Have you added the angry emoji especially for @Johnsond 😂

Thank God! I have closure and can start the long process of rebuilding my life now!

Quick update. Had it all to bits again and it turned out the problem was the contact plate on the switch not making a good enough contact with the crimps on the end of the leads. I pulled them out and reseated them so they were a bit more ‘proud’, and screwed the whole assembly back together tighter than I normally would. Christ they get hot! Too hot for bare hands. Thanks for your input fellas, I understand the system a lot better now.

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Like the shoulder to crayon...

Sloping concrete drive. Big enough for larger skips.

OMG you used the fuuuuuuuucccckkkkiiiinnnggg edit function 😳😳😳😳😳 Your post is pure shite, you were wrong initially about the fuel freeze. Now get back to your spreadsheet you bone idle bugger. No wonder the public sector is a millstone around the next of taxpayers.

I was wondering how SP could read anything else into it apart from what you have just described.

That's true, but... all politicians change their minds yearly, I wouldn't be surprised if they reinstate it next year as a 'isn't the government wonderful to you' gift though. I tend to only count for the coming year because I have no clue what they will change in the next budget. (edit here: With inflation I guess you could say that fuel duty being frozen for the year, not being linked to inflation makes it a drop 'in real terms'... but would be grasping at straws to say that... though I have a vague memory of about 10 years ago a chancellor trying to sell us that line)

I think you have carb issues - the scoring may not be all that bad. When storing a 2 stroke machine for more than 3 months I go over to some rough ground, start the machine, then with it running, open the fuel cap and pour the fuel mix onto the gravel etc, or a jug if you're eco, then rev the guts out of it till it stops. This way you are not left with stale ethanol fuel in the carb to gum up all the bits I know nothing about. BTW I've had mixed results trying to revive carbs with carb kits. Often end up hunting for a chinese copy carb and changing it out, or even a new genuine Stihl carb off ebay if its cheap. By tipping the fuel out after long term storage you still have remains of gakky fuel in the lines and carb. My protocol is for a tightwad who won't pay for alkylate mix. There's usually enough breeze to take the fumes away. And I'd hate to have spent all that money then get prostate cancer

This was a funny way of putting it. What she actually has done is end the fuel duty freeze which has been in place for 16 years (as from next September). But somehow she spun that as a freeze on fuel duty!

Myself and a number of family members and friends have log burners so anything thats free would help in heating thanks

I think it's got to be fuel related, E10 is new and undoes all the years of experience we have in how to look after machines. My thought is ethanol/water in the fuel, causing oil separation else the bores would not score up like that. It's possible the Husqvarna tank vents let more air in and out as temperature goes up and down, hence more water vapour gets in. I realised fuel was taking up too much of my head, thinking about not having it hanging around, tipping it out of big saws, buying additives, extra trips because I only bought 5 litres at a time, etc etc. Thought sod it, 55 litre drum of Motomix in the back shed - no thinking now, just go and top up combi can whenever I want. Have had to buy some rubber parts but touch wood nothing serious.

@doobin

I don't blame you. I can only do this to strimmers that have will definitely be idle between October and May. did you inspected the pistons before? Is it just scoring or have the rings melted, is it just the exhaust side or is there damage to the intake side? post some pics I feel stupid asking, but have you ruled out a mix error? Have you compared the colour of the mix that caused the issue with fresh fuel?

So **************** everyone else I’m all right Jack Cheers easy HMRC

I have been using the art one with the cocoon pulley, it's the muts and has been for all the years I have been using it. I can only recall it getting stuck twice in the last ten years. I think it is the design of it. Only trouble is it is an expensive piece of equipment to be smashing to tarmac from 50ft upon retrieval, I should lower it down but never have. Due to be replaced. I do use srt a bit, particularly for access. When I came to the art pulley saver I could not believe the difference in friction between that and a regular ring to ring one I had been using previously!

Get back to work you lazy bugger. Labour look after the public sector shirkers that’s for sure.