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Throttle cable stretch


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When milling Yew logs a couple of days ago, when the throttle handle was fully depressed the blade would stop at various times thru the cut.

I thought this may have been down to the toughness of the yew , I had never milled Yew before.

At some stages , I couldn't move forward at all, but I could retract the blade and then it would start moving again.

I even started insertin wedges which shouldn't be needed.

Only when I manually pressed the throttle arm in as far as it would go( the little arm just under the fuel tank)I would get slightly more revs which powered the blade thru the log.

I'm guessing the lack of power is due to the throttle cable stretching, am I right in saying this, and did other users have the same issue ?

The mill has only had about 20 hrs use.

Do I just adjust the cable to take any slack out, although it doesn't feel like it's over slack.

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To me that sounds like you need to tighten the drive belt. Certainly double check if it's tight enough. I haven't heard of the cable stretching- certainly not in 20 hrs use. But, you do want to mill on full revs so it's worth adjusting the throttle cable to take slack out so that when the handle is depressed it's revving fully. 

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