What's on your bench today?

[swinny]

Not major saw maintenance, but I found this shocking:

 

Cutting rings of a cony stump with the 460 the other day. On coming through the cut the chain flipped off the bar (likely due to the ring pinching it as the cut closed). The chain catcher did it's job BUT was ripped almost clean in half in the process.

 

Anyone else had a chain catcher shear from stopping a chain?

 

yes they are made thinner nowadays.... also how many chains do you want a £3.00 piece of alluminium to stop? lol

[MattyF]

Surprisingly an easy fix ... The carb just slots straight in its just getting the lines and carb manifold through the new handle and changing the linkage to the new handle that was a pita !

[Joe Newton]

yes they are made thinner nowadays.... also how many chains do you want a £3.00 piece of alluminium to stop? lol

 

Just the one is fine

 

Was just surprised. Flipped a few chains on smaller saws, this was the first time it's happened on a larger saw, and the first time it's taken the chain catcher out!

[GardenKit]

Fitted some new ratchets to a Hayter mower today. Manly things, these Hayters.

[Ryan]

Giving the new husky 350 the once over this evening and all looks good, ready for the oak on saturday. Also on the bench tonight is an old husqvarna 41 chainsaw belonging to my brother in law. It was running erratically, impossible to tune and would keep stalling at idle, even when set high. Pulled it apart there, blocked the exhaust port and the mouth of the carb (kept carb in place) I applied 1 bar pressure into the plug hole and it held pressure for 15 mins without sign of a leak. However when I try to apply vacuum I cant get any at all. I even tried sucking through the pipe and can clearly feel air coming in. However I dont know how to find where its coming in. Obviously with pressure leak soapy water does the job but how do you check where the vacuum leak is?

 

The only thing im dubious about is the end float in the crank shaft. I can move the crank almost 1mm from side to side through the crankcase. No obvious play in bearings.

[spudulike]

Giving the new husky 350 the once over this evening and all looks good, ready for the oak on saturday. Also on the bench tonight is an old husqvarna 41 chainsaw belonging to my brother in law. It was running erratically, impossible to tune and would keep stalling at idle, even when set high. Pulled it apart there, blocked the exhaust port and the mouth of the carb (kept carb in place) I applied 1 bar pressure into the plug hole and it held pressure for 15 mins without sign of a leak. However when I try to apply vacuum I cant get any at all. I even tried sucking through the pipe and can clearly feel air coming in. However I dont know how to find where its coming in. Obviously with pressure leak soapy water does the job but how do you check where the vacuum leak is?

 

The only thing im dubious about is the end float in the crank shaft. I can move the crank almost 1mm from side to side through the crankcase. No obvious play in bearings.

 

Firstly, it is very possible to get a perfect seal on the pressure test and get the vacuum leaking. This often makes the saw hang on to revs when the throttle is let off.

 

The clutch side seal is generally the one that goes and I usually pack a bit of grease aroiund it to see if it slows down the vacuum leak - it should have an effect. Thick oil will also have a similar effect and will be sucked in!

[SteveA]

Treated myself to a Milwaukee M18 FUEL cordless drill less than one month ago.

 

It broke half way through my second job ....the bleedin' chuck wouldn't undo ....so it's off for repair with my 3/8" driver bit stuck in it. Customer support have been very good so far.

 

But apart from that, the drill is superb..... just hoping the same problem doesn't happen again.

 

http://www.milwaukeetool.co.uk/tools/cordless/m18/tools/m18-cpd-(1)/

[GardenKit]

Ah ha, my little gadget worked a treat, glad I spent the 5 minutes now.

 

 

[H-A]

Looks like it does the job.

 

Good tool.

 

H-A

[spudulike]

And you can use it to stir your tea