spudulike
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Everything posted by spudulike
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The only kits i would use on a primary saw for professional use are Meteor and OEM.
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Damn temptation.....got another one of these McCulloch brutes. This one is a 595, a 103cc banger. Tried starting it and reckon the carb needs a bit of TLC as it isn't pulling fuel up but it has a good spark and arm breaking compression:thumbup:
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You cant get much for £60 so worth it if you can fix it without having to get too many spares.
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If the above doesn't work out, I have a real nice one that I spent some time rebuilding, the paint is remarkably good and with the original stickers. I was going to bung it on ebay but if you want it, PM me!
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Buy both and try them out. In my experience, if you want a saw to have oodles of torque, you go for a smaller rim, if you use short bars and like the saw to do the work on smaller stuff, you fit a larger rim!
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I can see both sides, one where the business owner treats this as another constraint and expense that the Government put on private business but the other being that the average person on the street is a complete cock who would rather bugger off to Spain for a week than make a contribution to their pension. The only way to force the average person on the street to have a pension is to make sure it is part of being employed. The BIG issue is that if people don't change their attitudes, in a few years, people will be facing retirement with NOTHING to pay for it. The days of people looking after their old age are unfortunately broken through lack of funds, ignorance and living for today! I understand where you are - worked 65hr weeks 7 days a week when I was late teens and through the my 20s.....whilst my colleagues buggered off home!!
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God bless the EU, I believe they are contemplating fitting catalytic convertors to cows bum holes:001_rolleyes:......sod it, it isn't April 1st yet:blushing:
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Don't think we have sorted the OPs pension question and also think that in discussing pensions, most people are going from working straight in to an old peoples home. Well....hopefully it doesn't work like that! Pensions are also there so that you can: - 1) Stop working before your retirement age 2) Enjoy the period from when you leave work and the period where bits fall off and you loose your marbles! The bigger the pension pot, the longer you can enjoy that bit between being relatively fit and healthy to going in to one of those dreaded homes and eating slop! The biggest issues are house prices, job market and low wages. Things have changed in this country and it isn't like it was when I started work (dark ages:001_rolleyes:), Kids can just about afford a house leaving little for a pension - it is a time bomb!!!
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From the irritating adverts I hear on the radio and the idiotic TV advert, if you employ anyone, you have to offer them a workplace pension. I haven't read any detail but believe you have to initially, as an employer, have to pay 1% which rises year on year. "NEST" is mentioned as is stakeholder! Personally - I fully understand the need to do this, most people make no provision for their old age until they hit middle age and by then it is too late to put together a sensible sum. And for the record, A £100,000 pension pot = £5,000 Annual income whilst still keeping up with the rate of inflation and pensions are taxable after the initial tax allowance. And lastly - the government give tax relief on pension payments so if you pay in £10k after tax, they give you £2k based on the typical 20% rate of tax or simply don't tax you on payments in to your pension depending on how you do it.
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The only Mtronic one I have had in the workshop had a direct hit by a falling limb - new handle etc! I am sure I could wring a bit more out of one though!
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Be careful, this part may be the original one like you already have and not the new modified one! The one you have should be OK for a good while and if the thing exhibits the same fault, you know where to check. The autotune richens the mix up significantly if the impulse fails and saves the machine. We hear a lot of bad rep on auto-tune but this is one area where a standard machine would seize but the latest generation keep working and protecting the engine:thumbup:
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No on the IPL, just got the top handle and Mtronic one. The one I had would barely pull a 12" let alone a 28" but it livened up a bit once I fettled it a bit:thumbup:
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not being funny but why don't you look and see what is connected to the other end:confused1: Only ever had one of these rare beasts across the workshop but it looks like the centre wire from a AV spring to stop excessive stretching and cant remember if it had a cable throttle cable or not!
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Mmmmm......damn you, it is £6 a bottle here:thumbdown:
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Sounds like a good call, you can access it by removing the recoil cover and looking at it just to one side of the air injector manifold at the top. I have seen some with the brass union that has popped out!
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Not a problem, glad it helped!
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I think in many ways, it would have made more sense to let the thieving bankers go to the wall than live with austerity for 20 years after the Government bailed them out! This is yet another sign of the services we have paid tax for, being degraded down to the lowest common denominator!
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Not a problem, thanks for your interest!
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Not seen that one before!
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UK, north Hertfordshire. Guessing that shipping from the US makes it not worthwhile or worth it especially with shipping costs and tax:thumbdown:
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Thanks for the useful replies:sneaky2:
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And anyone who has swung by knows my rates are pretty reasonable:sneaky2:
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I don't believe it, all the issues in the early days and no one has thrown one out of a tree and demolished the bendy snappy bits leaving just a sound crank:001_rolleyes: Bugger, think it may be the end of the road for this one!
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Brushcutter blues
spudulike replied to the village idiot's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Pretty simple to keep the revs down - just turn the H screw anticlockwise until the thing doesn't scream and it would be pretty difficult to seize one then if the mix was OK. The 545 may be salvageable depending on the state of the cylinder and it may have failed through an air leak or bad mix. I have seen saws where the carb has limiters over-rev even with the H screw turned fully anti clockwise to the limit so you really need to find the maximum permissible revs, take off 1000 - 1500rpm and set the carb to this with a tach - limited coils make this a bit more difficult but still possible.
