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Yessireebob. (Sorry) This is a new one to me but a superb song. I love the line ‘You big talking’ man’

Correct! It has a torx end but I didn't see a purpose, I haven't stripped it down fully yet as it didn't show a replacement shaft on the parts diagram. What I was looking at doing was to bore the plastic starter piece (number 23) down by 5mm or so and machine a new groove in the shaft for the clip. Next job is to see if the shaft can be removed or is moulded into the cover.! Thanks for the offer on the machining.

Do you like Johnny Cash?

I don’t listen to music in the sense you do, it’s just ambient when I drive or watch telly. I like country for a couple of reasons, 1: in the 70s when I was growing up and you had little choice what radio stations you listened to, country was mainstream, Dolly, Kenny Rodgers, Dr Hook and others were in the charts and on tv all the time. 2: I enjoy the storytelling aspect of it, it has a beginning a middle and an end plus often a moral lesson. rather than just a nursery rhyme type jingle on repeat. It’s not all I listen to, but it’s certainly a part of it. Heres Kenny handing out some life lessons.

I think the BMS has disconnected the battery, the small voltage you see is an ephemera of the bms connections. If so nothing will happen. If the battery was just flat the sudden rush of current would probably melt the wires you jumped the two batteries with, after all the 40V is 3 times what a car battery will zap if you touch the terminals together and a lithium ion battery has much lower internal resistance. I've had similar on a cheap ( but useful) Ferrex 40V grinder battery. It was one cell out of the 10 that had failed. I made the mistake of not de soldering the BMS to get at it and struggled to pull the bad cell out from the nickel strips it was spot welded to. Knowing what I do now I would take it to our repair cafe with a new cell with solder tags ( about 6 quid) and get one of the electronics experts fit it. If I am right the other 19 cells will be good. I recycle them by taping 4 together, adding a usb charger with type C charge port and protected usb output as little power packs.

So the broken part is no 14 in this diagram, the cover with the fixed shaft. 22 and 23 are the spinny bits and are retained by 24/25 that sit in the broken circlip groove. The shaft has a torx end but looks like its only for assembly purposes? Does the shaft remove from the plastic cover? I might be able to repair that easily, or turn a new one on lathe. Another option, if you measure and draw the part up in a CAD program, you could get a new one machined quite cheapily with https://jlccnc.com/ I've not used them myself but I know of somone who was prototyping a climbing device and he got them to make the parts.

The door in that scene makes me laugh. Fck off great locking mechanism and then swings open like it's made of cardboard.

I would fully expect such a move would bring out the worse kind of reaction,, and almost certainly result in a chaos that would be uncontainable.

I used to listen to Bob Harris Country ('folk, roots and Americana') driving home from Bury Smallbore in my fabulous little Vitara. I can still remember a song about a crofter dismayed at Londoners buying them up for leisure. Searched and searched. Never found it again. Think about it often.

Not in the way that describes. If your going to try connecting the battery to anything to "jump start" it, it should not be another battery or high current device, it needs to be done with a current limit. This sort of thing, but it will need power from an 18v battery or similar https://www.amazon.co.uk/POFET-Buck-Boost-Programmable-Adjustable-Automatic/dp/B0D93WBZ7F There are more expensive ones that power themselves but for a one off use... https://www.amazon.co.uk/adjustable-switching-precision-charging-interface/dp/B09C8MT4KM You need to have it on constant current mode, 100mA. After 5 seconds, measure if the battery has taken any charge. Once its up to 20v, try it on the stihl charger. Fully charged is 42v.

I’m sorry I had a fight in the middle of your black panther party.

Don’t start me on that bitch!

Mark. The part number i supplied earlier on for the op, for the non soft start flywheel is also the non mtronic one....but yes, they need to be careful if buying used parts

The 391, right? Right? RIGHT??? Peter!!!??.!!,! 🥹

If my house blew down, at least my MS391 will still be there when I return to pick through my remaining possessions. It’s even too heavy for looters to nick! 😀

Open another bottle and stick Forrest Gump on. The soundtrack's decent and you can come back in a couple of hours and vent to us about what a bastard Jenny is.

Of course not, I’m bored not insane. I moved the cursor forward, it all seemed awful.

Another favourite.

It gets better (less worse) as you go on. You listened to all 18 minutes, right?

If you played that to laboratory rats they’d eat their own young. Here’s what I have actually been listening to on Spotify country classics.

Thanks Mark, I was hoping you had some insight into these Stihl battery thingies!

I will have another look over the next few days. It looks quite difficult to get to each end of each battery. Kram / openspaceman What do you think about this : https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+bring+a+cordless+battery+back+to+life&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB899GB899&oq=How+to+wake+up+a+cordless+battery&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDQgEEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjINCAQQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAUQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAYQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAcQABiGAxiABBiKBTIKCAgQABiABBiiBDIKCAkQABiABBiiBNIBCTI2MzU5ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:271e8dc7,vid:aoumXaIhuNI,st:0

If you do convert it make sure you get a flywheel from a non mtronic as they are different to the mtronic ones.

I've only just seen this thread as I'm not as active on here as I should be. TBH I cant offer any advice repairing the battery as unfortunately they are throw away items once they fail. There are no workshop manuals on how to repair them and no spare parts apart from a few stickers and replacement cases on the Husky batteries. I've done a few tests on batteries across the stihl, husky and echo range of batteries but that's only been to satisfy a warranty claim. There will be companies that can repair these batteries but I don't know of any. Sorry I couldn't be of any further help but messing about with lithium batteries when you don't know what your doing can end up fairly messy from some of the videos I've seen!

Mick and I regularly exchange media through a derelict but still-encrypted grindr server. I keep him supplied with his favourite type of Northern Irish pornography (fcking Brexit). He was recently kind enough to send this back, which he's been listening to on repeat apparently.