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Where I am coming from is spending £170 on a crank for a machine which will be some 17years old at best and then adding labour (I know the OP is doing it himself) and that is likely to be £200-250+ so you now have circa £400 on a saw that has done 17 years.....! 0.1mm is a big lump of tolerance on a critical part but I am torn between doing the professional long term fix and the taking a punt on the fix would last the rest of the machines life.....always a difficult one.

I would have used Loctite bearing retainer fluid and a new bearing. Spending that much on a crank for an old saw The other option would be a bit of JB weld if the bearing is really that loose on the shaft as it will fill larger cavities better. Some of these epoxies and locking fluids are amazingly strong if the surfaces are clean.

I really wouldn't worry, the logs are drying and the mould is just part of this and once they are dry, the mould will die and then will burn. The only issue will be if your garage is timber framed and the spores or worm then transfer to your house but probably unlikely in my experience.

I would burn them, that should sort out the mould problem!

It needs heat to soften the plastic if it is still plastic/rubber like and then scrape it off then scotch bright/ wire wool when cool to get rid of the rest. If the residue is hard and plastic then perhaps a wood chisel to carve it off then wire wool. All I can say is Darwin is alive and kicking

Sounds about right, seen a few like this.

In my past life I did sales, these dicks would phone on a Friday and make out they had a "Government Project", I would say "great, which of our products are you interested in"? They would be a bit evasive and eventually tell me that they had a publication and would advertise our services that would reach XX% of all people in Government giving us a great chance on these large scale projects. Same old shyte, £4-6k for an advert in a magazine that would be used to level a table, throw at an annoying colleague or landfill - take your pick!

I wish the Chinese had made a crap virus. Unfortunately, this one seems pretty dodgy to me - easily passed on and has potential to kill.....wish it would fall apart like most Chinese tat!

This is the original seller - Forestry Trailers and Cranes - Contact Us WWW.USED-TRACTOR.CO.UK

Here we go - palms+8+tonne - Google Search WWW.GOOGLE.CO.UK That is where the real one is or was, Edenbridge Kent, funny as I lived there for 18 years! The scum has just nicked this guys pics! Get wise!!!

Ask the fella if you can pick it up with cash on pickup. He will probably decline judging by his lack of feedback.

Just had a look around and CPUs are now commonly 6 and 8 core. My lappy is X4 and is pretty sprightly on all the normal stuff that you....and I do. When booting, mine used to take 3-5 minutes after a few years abuse. I used to turn it on and make a cuppa before using it. I reckon it is around 15 seconds now due to a SSD I fitted a while ago and that is with the same drive image being used and cost around £40. I have upgraded memory to 1GB and both are pretty easy mods. It has stayed that way and did the wifes desktop a year ago, same issues and bingo...super fast boot up time, no turning it on 30 mins before use! I just checked and mine is 10 years old and that is sooooooo long in computing terms but, it really shows that if you don't need games or are doing highly intensive graphics rendering or the like, all you need is an old banger with a bit of extra zip from memory and SSD. You could buy a decent 5 year old laptop making sure the processor is at least X4 core and then put around £60-80 of bits in it and bingo...it will blow you away! Lots of companies do refurb laptops for a couple of hundred £, just don't start thinking that you are going to use any more than 20% of the performance of a modern laptop surfing the net so why pay a fortune for it?

Are the sides leather? It looks like a cloth backing and wonder if only the tops are leather, the rest PVC? The only way of strengthening it is from the underside and that would be a sod to do.

Fast boot up times means SSD (solid state hard disk) and is the way to go, I upgraded mine and OMG, as fast as I can sit down, put my password in and go on the internet, the thing is already there. Quad core CPU is good although not sure what the latest incarnation is. I have been using an old Fujitsu 7-8 yrs and it has lasted well albeit upgraded memory and SSD, Lenovos are also good. If you are just surfing and doing a bit of paperwork then you don't need a real high spec - Games are the big user of power and if you are not a big gamer then you don't really need a high end lappy. I would look for the best CPU, memory can always be updated at a later date if necessary. If you do a lot of office work and like the Microsoft experience then go that route, there are other machines running Android and the like available. Try to match the machine to your needs rather than spending ££££££ on things you will never use.

Is the saw revving out to 13-14Krpm, if it is and your fuel/oil is mixed correctly then that is the most logical issue that may cause this problem. You could empty the oil tank, flush it out, remove the bar and chain then fire it up and see if it still smokes. Most two strokes smoke a bit when cold but clean up once warm.

I read Michael Caines Auto biography - Elephant to Hollywood....BTW excellent book - he did one of these war films in some God forsaken country and the whole cast and crew went down with Dysentery....except him and his theory was.... he was swigging a bottle of Vodka a day at the time as he was a bit of a raging alcoholic and his theory was that the voddy made his body a wasteland for bacteria and killed pretty much anything that came near it.....got me thinking

Yup, after a bad day, I thought I would try to fire it up and despite the wife's chastising, it went pretty well. I reckon we should have a day when we fire up our loudest machines to thank the NHS....reckon it may be a glorious day

And £5 on eBay...good to know!

Another pic

The GT85 was to break down the old oil in the bore to make it easier to turn over and hoped when it ignited, it would pull the fuel through rather than breaking my back which it did. Got two of these saws, one is a 1-40 and is 1960s 80cc with a lowered cylinder and a bit of porting. This one is the 595 and is 100cc but haven't done much work to it....yet! Around 1970s in date.

Just a bit of GT85 and old oil burning off, nothing to worry about

Well, I got the old bastard out today, never had it running as it is near impossible to pull over. These old bangers had a screw in the carb where you remove it, take the spark plug out and then pull it over enthusiastically until the fuel pisses out of the top of the carb. once it does this, you replace the screw and pull over the saw enthusiastically which I did and sprayed a bit of GT85 up the carb to make it pop helping the fuel along and bingo, lots of smoke and a running saw. VID_20200422_165510095.mp4

A bit extreme, the beauty of the two stroke is set port timing, very few moving parts and complexity compared to a four stroke engine. But - go ahead and I guess most of us have 6 weeks + of being locked up so plenty of time to fiddle....good luck!

I emailed them today as I couldn't add parts on backorder as I would normally and was told that their suppliers are shutting up shop and they will not be able to supply them until this pandemic is over. I have just tried and it looks like you can still add Husqvarna parts to your basket. With Stihl parts, this doesn't work - unfortunate as 90% of my work is Stihl in my area.

If L&S haven't got the parts in stock, they won't be able to supply as the supply chain is shutting down and it is causing a few issues for me and probably others. I guess all parts suppliers will be similar unless you want aftermarket.