What's on your bench today?

[Rich2484]

What's an 080 rich?

 

 

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Stupid iPad...08s....

[Eddy_t]

Stupid iPad...08s....

 

Fair enough, the old tillotson carbs are easy to work on

 

 

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[Stubby]

Partner saws piston:

Exhaust side [ATTACH]144807[/ATTACH]

Intake side [ATTACH]144808[/ATTACH]

Cylinder

[ATTACH]144809[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]144810[/ATTACH]

So after the repair it's going on aspen!

 

 

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More stripes than a deck chair !

[Eddy_t]

More stripes than a deck chair !

 

I know! It's terrible, even spud can't work magic on that

 

 

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[GardenKit]

My bench is still pristine clean, I checked it this morning, not even any dust!

 

That will change when I go back in on Thursday though, PAT testing is first priority, BORING.

 

Spent most of the holiday with sander and paintbrush at home, and was getting pretty fed up with seeing brilliant white so went down the road to check on our new 'investment' property only to find some of the fencing panels at the back had blown down and disintegrated (why could we not have had a storm before we exchanged contracts?)

 

Easy I thought, just need to get 3 panels, replace 4 broken posts, surely thats only 1/2 a day.

Ah, but maybe I should just take down those four small trees (about 6" at base and 15ft high at most) that had self seeded behind the fence and were obstructing a footpath, only take 1/2 an hour to cut them down without the fence panels I thought.

 

Which was right, they only took 1/2 hour to drop, but another 4 hours and two van trips to dispose of the arisings which included some of the longest and thickest brambles I have ever seen.

 

Then I found the 4 broken posts had each been bedded in around 100kg of concrete.

 

Oh well, happy days. Give me spanners and grease any day.

[Rich2484]

My bench is still pristine clean, I checked it this morning, not even any dust!

 

That will change when I go back in on Thursday though, PAT testing is first priority, BORING.

 

Spent most of the holiday with sander and paintbrush at home, and was getting pretty fed up with seeing brilliant white so went down the road to check on our new 'investment' property only to find some of the fencing panels at the back had blown down and disintegrated (why could we not have had a storm before we exchanged contracts?)

 

Easy I thought, just need to get 3 panels, replace 4 broken posts, surely thats only 1/2 a day.

Ah, but maybe I should just take down those four small trees (about 6" at base and 15ft high at most) that had self seeded behind the fence and were obstructing a footpath, only take 1/2 an hour to cut them down without the fence panels I thought.

 

Which was right, they only took 1/2 hour to drop, but another 4 hours and two van trips to dispose of the arisings which included some of the longest and thickest brambles I have ever seen.

 

Then I found the 4 broken posts had each been bedded in around 100kg of concrete.

 

Oh well, happy days. Give me spanners and grease any day.

 

Could have just brought the same size posts and removed all the old ones from the concrete, then just drop the new ones in. Add a bit of water and the posts will swell to fit the old holes. Easy.

 

Of course postcrete is the best invention since sliced bread,

[spudulike]

Could have just brought the same size posts and removed all the old ones from the concrete, then just drop the new ones in. Add a bit of water and the posts will swell to fit the old holes. Easy.

 

Of course postcrete is the best invention since sliced bread,

 

Or whang a met post in the hole, the one with the 1/2 angle foot long spur - thats what I have done to our fence on a regular basis:thumbup:

[spudulike]

Been porting a 390XP, if came in with a Golf piston that was badly scored so had some history of a repair gone wrong.

 

New Meteor piston fitted, widened inlet and exhaust ports, modified transfers, lowered the squish and a muffler mod - it is going to be loud and has some decent compression now.

 

Like a prat, I forgot to push the diaphragm on to the metering arm and wondered why I was getting an after Christmas workout trying to start it:001_rolleyes:

 

Fired up first time after having the carb apart, loud but good:thumbup:

[Charles Hey Arborist]

Been porting a 390XP, if came in with a Golf piston that was badly scored so had some history of a repair gone wrong.

 

New Meteor piston fitted, widened inlet and exhaust ports, modified transfers, lowered the squish and a muffler mod - it is going to be loud and has some decent compression now.

 

Like a prat, I forgot to push the diaphragm on to the metering arm and wondered why I was getting an after Christmas workout trying to start it:001_rolleyes:

 

Fired up first time after having the carb apart, loud but good:thumbup:

 

You never ported that395xp of mine did you? Mate keeps wanting me to ask as it cuts so much better now!

 

I have a 576xpg (non auto tune I think) that keeps cutting out at the end of cuts, as soon as you let off the throttle. Does it more often when using half throttle. Really really annoying! Any ideas?

It runs fine starts fine, idles fine. Dies immediately at the end of a cut, not die slowly. 5-6 pulls and it starts again.

 

Know where I can get any big saws spud, 3120xp, 880 etc?

[burrell_]

That 576 is a nice saw its just a wind up it keeps cutting out

 

He only wants a bigger saw because he had a play with the 076 lol