spudulike
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Seems topical at the moment........
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The 1/4 inch is much smoother with no grab. Used a 2511 recently on 3/8, first time for quite a while and it was very grabby with lots of vibration!
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But Castrol R smells glorious though. Should bottle it and sell it to manly men!!!
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You are probably getting diesel on the spark plug. Take the plug out, turn the saw upside down, pull it over hard a few times to clear any flooding. Prime the carb, assuming it is the NE silverside version. Heat the plug up hot with a plumbers lamp, fit it, hold the saws throttle open and pull the saw over fast with no decomp, it should fire after a few pulls. Obviously this is a bit dangerous but it is often the only way of sparking up a machine that has had this happen. Expect clouds of kerosene flavoured white smoke once it gets going! Hold the rear handle very firmly whilst doing this!!
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Solid in construction, a bridge between the MS460 and the AT MS 462, a good solid choice and will last!
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As Wyk days, you can tell pretty much what the compression and piston/ cylinder are like by slowly pulling the engine over. Some saws have a slightly larger or smaller recoil pulley that can mislead you but generally you can tell. I find with my tester that s brisk first pull will give a reading of 1/2 your final reading after 5-6 pulls. I stuck a presta valve in my Gunson gauge as it kept destroying Schrader valves on modified saws.
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You can fit a larger self tapper. I think the one from the very top of the recoil cover from a BG85 is shorter and fatter and fits nicely. It is the one nearest the middle of the top handle.
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Silver birch, loads of stupid seeds at this time of year, getting in to all parts of your car and house and the firewood from them goes mushy very quickly!
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AM annular buffers or AV mounts as the rest of the world call them, are crap and they fail very quickly, use the OEM parts. New OEM top end should be circa 180psi + as a deleted gasket one will pull 200-220psi. Glad it is sorted, I had assumed you knew how to tune a carb with the rest of the work done but there you go....a lesson learnt and hopefully a reliable saw now!
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Did you connect the impulse line up correctly? Sounds like lack of fuel, you could try opening the H&L screws up a bit more and see if anything changes. Did you give it a new fuel line and filter? Is the fuel tank breather OK? If you have changed all the parts that need changing, it should run fine. Did you lightly hone the bore when fitting the new piston? Did you reset the coil to flywheel gap?
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Build up of oil from the fuel mix around the rings and bore...got to be and bet now it has run up and burnt the oil off, it is easier to pull over! Glad you got there in the end though!
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Well that's all OK then isn't it, justifies the comments fully, doesn't it?
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Just man up and give it a damn good tug and when you have finished, try to start the saw?
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Yup, you are correct, either the moderators have kicked in which is unlikely or Andy has deleted his comments that I commented on and found to be pretty offensive even by my very broad standards!
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So you are saying a member on here is a hat wearing twat and has urges towards young kids now???? Really, haven't heard stuff like that since primary school!!
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And that doesn't mean anyone is right or wrong.....just saying? Empty pitchers.........
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Nice.......wonder why it wasn't spinning the chain, muffler was also held on by just the lower support bracket screws....no inner ones!
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Usually the bigger the house, the tighter the residents are!
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Best way, fit it and see what it does, if it doesn't work, hand it over to someone who can take it to the next stage.
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Only issue is that if you gave her a new one, she would want it fitted, then there is mental trauma, loss of earnings and yah de da de dah.....you know the type! Some people are the pits....thats life, move on!
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Big CC Chainsaws a thing of the past or will new models come out soon?
spudulike replied to Jamie Jones's topic in Chainsaws
Yup, it knackers me lifting those big fecking saws on to my bench? -
Big CC Chainsaws a thing of the past or will new models come out soon?
spudulike replied to Jamie Jones's topic in Chainsaws
I gave my advice free of charge and with experience of fixing quite a few 880s with heat seize failures typically from fuel being left in the tank for a long period before being used again. Using Aspen will work as well but the point is, the saws cost a fortune, supply is in constraint and if you want to generate more business for your repair guy, CARRY ON DOING WHAT YOU DO.......I can't be arsed to argue!! I was going to mention the oil pumps on 880s but think I will keep it to myself as the advice.....that I also like to give my paying customers as well, seems to be causing angst on the site!!! -
Just fit a new one and if it isn't that, you have only done £20! The issue was the first ones got very fine chip in them so they bought out a new one and it comes with a much finer fuel filter so change that as well!
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Big CC Chainsaws a thing of the past or will new models come out soon?
spudulike replied to Jamie Jones's topic in Chainsaws
For anyone running large saws that don't get used often.....drain the fuel after use, old fuel is one of the main reason that big saws get seized. Guys finish the job, it goes back on the shelf for months and then......it comes out and there is half a tank of old fuel, enough for the job and pop, the oil has been degraded by the petrol and the saw seizes - pretty common! -
Well I hope we get somewhere with this one. There are too many good guys doing a good job having their trade trashed by a few hrse aoles who are happy to take £3k from a 80 year old pensioner for a £400 job and leave when they have trashed the job. My old dad got some "good blokes" to do a mornings job a long while ago, took down his phone line, took him to his bank for payment...a few hundred £££ and then buggered off in to the distance - I was bloody livid but what can you do, a neighbour binned them off and then they did a door knock and bingo, my old boy got done over.
