Unknown hedge cutter

[openspaceman]

Does anyone recognise this old hedge cutter? The air cleaner reminds me of a pole saw marketed under the Oregon brand in the 80s and it does have an Oregon branded spark plug. The blades have hardly any wear so I don't think it has had much use.

 

It has a very very weak spark but starts with a shot of ether and then runs okay. I have re gapped the coil to flywheel magnets from 0.5mm to 0.3mm and that has made no difference. It will restart immediately from hot but after 5 minutes it will not fire at all with its own fuel. As a first step I'll change the plug but I suspect a carburation problem exacerbated by the poor spark.

 

I am hesitant about fiddling with the carb yet as I do not recognise the type, it has no H or L screws that I can see.

 

I wonder if the coil is a generic one as it looks like the 32F ones that are fitted to a number of small 2t engines.

Edited March 11 by openspaceman
added picture late

[nepia]

A pic might help... 😊

[Stubby]

Could be tiered magnets on the flywheel . Put a picture up and someone might know ...

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, nepia said:

A pic might help... 😊

Sorry, added now

[openspaceman]

12 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Could be tiered magnets on the flywheel . Put a picture up and someone might know ...

Picture up now; I checked the magnets and they seemed to be strong enough.

I was cutting a boundary overhang in a mate's garden and was wrapping up when he asked me if I could fix it.

 

Initially I could see no spark at all and suspected a poor coil but when I tested the primary at 1.5 Ohms and the secondary at 6k Ohms, which seemed about right, so I had to wait and spin it over in the dark and saw the faint spark.

 

So I resorted to the ether...

[adw]

3 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Does anyone recognise this old hedge cutter? The air cleaner reminds me of a pole saw marketed under the Oregon brand in the 80s and it does have an Oregon branded spark plug. The blades have hardly any wear so I don't think it has had much use.

 

It has a very very weak spark but starts with a shot of ether and then runs okay. I have re gapped the coil to flywheel magnets from 0.5mm to 0.3mm and that has made no difference. It will restart immediately from hot but after 5 minutes it will not fire at all with its own fuel. As a first step I'll change the plug but I suspect a carburation problem exacerbated by the poor spark.

 

I am hesitant about fiddling with the carb yet as I do not recognise the type, it has no H or L screws that I can see.

 

I wonder if the coil is a generic one as it looks like the 32F ones that are fitted to a number of small 2t engines.

It probably has a rotary carb, so there will be a tiny screw down through the top, you will need to dig the anti tamper plug out to get to the screw, this is the top of the  needle so unscrewing will richer the low speed, there will be a similar sealing plug on the side of the carb covering the high speed screw.

[Stere]

Distinctively shaped plastic red top but don't recognize it.

 

Was loads decent  red  brands about yrs ago

 

kawasaki harry zenoah robin efco danarm  mtd  lawnflite etc were/are  red ?

 

Black cover bit has some symbol centre of  it maybe?

[Botty Cough]

Old homelite?

[Stubby]

6 minutes ago, Stere said:

Distinctively shaped plastic red top but don't recognize it.

 

Was loads decent  red  brands about yrs ago

 

kawasaki harry zenoah robin efco danarm  mtd  lawnflite etc were/are  red ?

 

Black cover bit has some symbol centre of  it maybe?

I thought it looked like the old Kwacker engine .

[richyrich]

That's defo got the makings of later Kawasaki models..