Rate my oiler

[peds]

Well done that man. 

[AHPP]

Just took it apart, cleaned it and put it back together. You have to clock the oiler so the hole in it, not the slot, lines up with the hole in the plastic saw body. See the notch/slot end opposite it in this picture. 
 

 

You also have to press it in to the correct depth so the aforementioned holes line up. I did some clever measuring and set a nut as a depth stop. 
 

 

Anyway. That didn’t work because I clearly measured something wrongly so I just pushed it the whole way and it works now. 

Edited March 17 by AHPP

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

You have to clock the oiler so the hole in it, not the slot, lines up with the hole in the plastic saw body.

Swot I sed

[AHPP]

What do you want; royalties?

[openspaceman]

Cheeky whippersnappers should take note of their elders if they have asked for advice

[AHPP]

Thanks, Getafix.
 

Anyway. Can you see anywhere you’ve scrumped apples from on this map?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 17 by AHPP

[AHPP]

November 1945. No M25, no Heathrow, no VAT.

Edited March 17 by AHPP

[openspaceman]

17 minutes ago, AHPP said:

November 1945. No M25, no Heathrow, no VAT.

Just a bit before my time but it hadn't changed that much from the map until the 1970s. I can make out the intersection of the road adjacent to this house which had already been here 80 years in 1945. Mind I suspect that this was a re jigged map of the 1931 survey.

[AHPP]

I had to look it up. The M25 was started in 1975. Wikipedia says it was finished in 1986 but that’s not what I saw crawling round it the other week. 

[AHPP]

As an aside, Stihl just called me since I've been haranguing them about sending me a service manual for the past fortnight.

 

The point I made to them was this: On the one hand, Stihl wants to sell saws and make money. They don't want end users to fix their own saws because that might prolong the economic viability of keeping said saws. They want dealers to quote dealer prices so more stuff will be not economically viable to fix and keep. They want old saws in the bin and new saws on the sales ledger. But on the other hand, they have pages and pages of eco guff on their website about sustainability, energy conservation, waste prevention, climate and carbon neutrality et cetera, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. So which is it? Do they want me to put my otherwise perfectly good saw in the bin and buy another or do they want a happy green future for the world? Because it can't be both.

 

I'm shopping for a different saw at the moment. I'll be asking for availability of servicing information before buying and giving brands who don't supply it the same hot ear I just gave Stihl.