spudulike
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Everything posted by spudulike
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Damn, I want pizza and garlic bread now
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Most of my local customers are on HS82/HS86 units. Bit more of the same in your case!
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Then the manufacturer has a coherent focus on customer satisfaction, their dealers will sort out warranty returns. In the real world, they have set times to do a repair for a given fault, these tend to be screwed down to the point that it won't support the appointed dealers business meaning that they lose money on a bit of kit they haven't sold making it difficult for the owner to get any solution to his issue which turns him against the brand. That's life in the real commercial world.
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Yes, well awake now Sometimes easier to look at buying saws as being like cars. You buy your Ford from your local dealer and ....move to a different area, who do you take it to....your local dealer where you moved to obviously. Shouldn't be an issue if the manufacturer is as they should be, customer focused!
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Huh, what...did someone mention my name
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His "blade" seemed sharp when I watched a few of these films a few years ago, sliced off heads pretty effectively. He may have had help though from his backup team, think they were using Vallorbe files!
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I think some Bosch plugs have the solid end electrode and NGK are generally threaded for caps of different type. It is an aluminium connector and has no resistive element - that will be within the plug itself!
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No problem but not sure what it has to do with this issue.
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It is a vampire film series staring Wesley Snipes as a vampire killer I believe
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The cutters being shorter on one side could be down to the bar guides being splayed, worn, cutters been damaged in the past or just down to poor sharpening technique. The cutters should all be relatively even on a decent set up and the depth gauges/rakers should be set correctly otherwise the chain will not cut as it should or vibrate more than it should. Angle, depth gauge height and no hook are common issues on the chains I see on customers saws.
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£350 - may go £400 absolute tops, be surprised if it goes for less than £330. It must be an old one as the muffler is the one that sounds like a dirt bike!!
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And there are the two ends of the scale!!! My day - fixed my own lawnmower - Qualcast 17" cylinder, the choice of gentleman New bottom blade, sorted a sloppy bearing retainer and a sharpen to true up the cylinder. Went on to the customers kit, FS410, grenaded big end, really bad condition and written off, one newish looking blower, someone had been messing and eventually found the coil was shot but it would idle fine just not rev out so had had the carb off three times. The other blower, bits missing all over the place - just hate it when someone has pissed about with kit, especially when they swap bits that fit but aren't correct to the machine - coils are like that! Not too bad but this customers kit is always near death!
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Crap, they usually haven't a clue, the ones I love are the ones that tell you how to do the job or work to a miniscule budget on a saw that hasn't been cleaned since new....got to just love those!
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Nope, I normally get in the stuff ready for the grave with the owners thinking porting will remove 20 years of abuse....and fix all the running issues!
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I think it is time for a belt of semtex around the trunk, and they say ported saws are loud
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Pressure or vacuum (it is all air) ......not too often and depends on the saw. 346XPs leak often, MS200s a bit on the seals, many others are rare. Funny enough I had one where fresh fuel would have worked - some ijut filled a saw with diesel.....got to love my customers - bloody smoky when it fired!
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Yup, done a few 044s, a fair bit can be done including the ignition advance Wyk mentioned, had some good results. Solid saws, few issues with them tbh.
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They only kicked him out recently with a big legal wrangle but guess they have had many line ups over the years.
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Ah, now there is the question, I fix them, make them go faster, make them Sccrrreeeaaaammmmmm but others use them! I rarely use my creations as I only cut wood for my burner and do a very small amount of emergency clearance in the village if people want it - last one was a big old hung bough from a cedar, gave me the willies, a real cut and leg it job, fell bang on as I wanted it If it had fallen on me, I was appropriately, in the local graveyard so officially on Gods work who must have been smiling on me that day I have done a few of each, all are still running, even the 461 that smashed its piston so I popped a cheapo in it and it is still working well. Did one for a forestry guy (461) and it is his fave now....I think the 460 is possibly easier to work on but is marginal.
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I lived in Kent in my youth and it was a common name for a caravan dweller of gypsy orientation and not seen as too detrimental in the 70s. When I moved to Hertfordshire, the term was less used or understood but over the last 15 years seems to have grown in use and understood by more people. I guess Kent was the garden of England and many picked crops etc in that age.
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And they have kicked out Lindsey Buckingham
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Saw The Cure at Wembley Arena, bloke next to us shouted "Fat Bastard" at Robert Smith all night.....fortunately the band were pretty loud. Just like Heaven....one of my faves, lovely riff through it.
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No experience of the 462 and 500....yet but the MS461...for the record has a conventional piston and cylinder with a few strange quirks like a strange raised yoke that goes inside the piston at the bottom of the stroke and is some sort of strato system. The lower transfers are at the front of the saw so benefit from the rotation of the crank and a slimmer cylinder. The saw follows much from the design of the 460 and if looked after, will last 10 years + and has the benefit of a conventional carb and normal adjusters. It also shares the crank from the 460! The saw is also pokey and relatively easy to work on. I have repaired a few and ported another few - seemed well received. It just depends what sort of person you are, some of my customers still covet their 044 and 046s. Try to borrow a 462 for the day and see if it lives up to expectations!
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Briggs & Stratton pumping oil out of the exhaust
spudulike replied to MrNick's topic in Maintenance help
I don't know the engine but typical faults causing oil burning are piston/ring/bore wear that cause blue smoke all the time, lack of power and excessive oil consumption. Oil leaking from a gallery/oil feed cavity due to a gasket failure can cause oil to enter in to the combustion chamber. Oil leaking down the valve guides usually gives a good old puff on start up and will clear but get bad if an engine is left running slowly for a period then revved again. A crack in the top end casting can cause issues with oil. If it is mostly on start up and the engine isn't using oil excessively, suspect worn guides or valves. Learnt from Japanese rice burner bikes in my teens -
Oh...and good luck with that diving, get on a plane to Gozo, believe it is supposed to be good.
