HUSQVARNA FUEL CANS,.

[Joe Newton]

14 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

You should have searched arbtalk first, husky one is well known for being crap, the Stihl one is good had mine for years. If you're too tight to buy the Stihl can it's the same thread on the Oregon can do fits straight on.

Similar to Dan, I've had an oregon can with stihl spouts. Don't need the spanner holders that fall out when you fill your saw. 

 

Bloody thing must be a decade old, replaced the fuel filler once. 

[AHPP]

After doing a fairly happy and nondescript decade without one, a mate recently gave me a Stihl can. I bought the Stihl spouts for it. Thirty quid!

 

[AHPP]

It won't make me any money will it.

[Oldfeller]

I found this, so I got it apart, the o rings look fine, and it's exactly the problem shown in the video, I'll modify it tomorrow and see how it goes.

 

[Stubby]

11 hours ago, Oldfeller said:

agreed, in fact I have been gifted a few saws that were stored with, and without fuel in them and all have been affected to a degree, some older ones badly.

a thorough service and replacement with "viton" parts if possible can be very beneficial to operational longevity.

An old mate of mine had his original  "Triton" [Norton Featherbed frame, and Triumph T120 bonneville motor] it had a fibreglass fuel and oil tank combined, whole thing turned to mush on modern fuel, fortunately before the engine had "ingested any of it, he has replaced it with a perfect copy in stainless steel, at considerable cost I might add.

 

I seem to remember some very expensive Ducati bikes had to change from fiberglass tanks to steel or aluminum because of that . The " wide line " featherbed frame was very popular in my day for housing Triumph and BSA engines . Thing is there was not much wrong with the Norton Atlas engine I thought.  

[Oldfeller]

3 hours ago, Stubby said:

I seem to remember some very expensive Ducati bikes had to change from fiberglass tanks to steel or aluminum because of that . The " wide line " featherbed frame was very popular in my day for housing Triumph and BSA engines . Thing is there was not much wrong with the Norton Atlas engine I thought.  

The Atlas 650 -750 motor was indeed a good motor, but suffered from bad vibrations at higher revs, The Triumphs were a smoother running motor,but their single downtube frame was much inferior to Nortons featherbed, I never owed either, but I had a tuned  Tiger 110 in a BSA frame that would beat many of them. great days.

[Stubby]

52 minutes ago, Oldfeller said:

The Atlas 650 -750 motor was indeed a good motor, but suffered from bad vibrations at higher revs, The Triumphs were a smoother running motor,but their single downtube frame was much inferior to Nortons featherbed, I never owed either, but I had a tuned  Tiger 110 in a BSA frame that would beat many of them. great days.

My last British bike was a Royal Enfield Constelation 700 twin . I longed for the much more reliable Interceptor 750 but alas could not afford one . 

[openspaceman]

5 hours ago, Stubby said:

The " wide line " featherbed frame was very popular in my day for housing Triumph and BSA engines

This arose because the manx norton engine was used by formula 3 racing cars so the only way to get one was to buy the bike and sell the rest on.

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[Stubby]

58 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

This arose because the manx norton engine was used by formula racing cars so the only way to get one was to buy the bike and sell the rest on.

The Cooper Norton . 

[openspaceman]

17 minutes ago, Stubby said:

The Cooper Norton . 

Yeah, I had a Dinky one in british racing green, I used to oil the axles to make it go faster.