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Best get the breather cleaned or replaced as the saw will have a risk of under fuelling if there is a vacuum in the fuel tank and the potential to seize. It is a relatively simple thing to repair or clean and not sure why any repairer wouldn't do so.

It very much depends on the time you are traveling, morning or evening rush hour will be murder, after 9.30 until 3.30 will be fine. Fridays are generally lighter traffic but are murder after 2.30. I did that section of the M25 regularly and it is M25 and A3...just pick your times!!

Yup, clean your crack with brake cleaner...wipes are for wimps!

Saw Rocket Ron racing in a British GP at Donnington, led on the first lap and lost laps through the race.☹️

Yup, had it on a 009....quite a shock and needed lots of grease and tweezers to rebuild it.

Nice...bit of a rare one. I use a bicycle pump on my old gauge for big leaks as per you have found out, some leaks need a lot of air to diagnose where they are coming from.

I used to hold low value...under £15 spares that I knew I would use...MS200T parts and MS 201Ts especially as I had good churn on them and I would use them regularly. Other parts, especially the more expensive ones were purchased as I needed them. I regularly got calls promising the saw in yesterday and ended up with parts ordered in and the saw never materialized. I use L&S for most parts as they hold good stock and the parts they don't have, they get in PDQ and advise regularly on big issue items so you know they are doing their best. No need to get excited, just be a regular buyer and build up a two way relationship with the supplier and all will be good.....you can't expect suppliers to have many slower moving parts on the shelf as it costs the business on the bottom line.

Fetch the comfy chair!!

That is good!

My brother purchased one and think it had a 16" 1.6mm chain and it was super boggy and slow......you needed a calendar to time a cut! 1.3mm and preferably semi chisel 14" bar would be my choice and don't know what they come fitted with but this is my opinion on cutting gear.

As above, pretty light, do the job, relatively simple and good spares coverage....and good residual prices if he needs to sell again. Make sure it has a 1.3mm gauge chain on a 12-14" bar as on a 1.6mm chain or longer bar 16 - 18", it will be gutless.

I think you have hit the nail on the head, I started on bikes albeit 40 years ago and it stays with you even after years of just driving cars.....the "whats round the corner", "hitting the apex", the..."driver is lost and is likely to", the..."life saver looking over the right shoulder".....basically seeing what is going to happen rather than reacting to it happening. A dodgy driver when on two wheels can be death rather than a bent wing or panel so you have a sixth sense and see these things. Oh....my wife's hairdresser had a client who had a BMW crashing through a garden wall, ending up in her front garden....copper drove past looking and just carried on...the bloke got out of his car, said he had been off the booze for 8 months, said he had a blow out, got back in the car and drove off.....he did get in touch later...I guess when he was sober! You couldn't make it up....what exactly do the local constabulary do now

Sorry, you are two years too late, I had one but fixed it with a Hiway pot and piston.....same issue as yours, leaking seals!

I did think this as well, not funny the second time round either!!

You just remove the black plastic handle part that sits around the greasing point. Remove the insert with the small locking screw and fit the new part as per the included instructions. I don't think you need much more stripping than that. Make sure you fit the washers in the correct manner and don't over torque any of the parts.

The MK1 was prone to the impulse line coming off. This is under the air box and in between it and where the recoil rope comes out of the cover. Other than that, the metering diaphragm can bag out but check the pump diaphragm and gauze strainer as well . It sounds like lack of fuel and that points to the gauze strainer. If it is plugged, flush the fuel tank as well.

They were a band...great riffs, Phil Lynott was a big loss!!

Sounds like fuel starvation. Fit a new fuel line and fuel filter if not done in the last few years, strip the carb, check the gauze strainer for blockage. Reset the screws H and L to one turn out from fully in and see how it goes. Pulling off the exhaust and checking out the piston is a good idea.

He means "tired", the spelling on this forum isn't one of its strong points and Stubby is one of the better ones!! Your position is a common one and you must pull the saw over pretty sharpish to get a spark on some models. On some older machines, a really slow pull is fine and on some like the MS461 and MS660 need an enthusiastic pull. Sometimes you can overcome weak magnets by closing up the coil to magnet gap by using A4 paper rather than a business card....this will advance the spark by a degree or two as well which you probably won't notice.

Its only a flesh wound!

As above. They can fail in a number of ways..... Sometimes the heat in the coil after 20 mins use will just kill the spark and then it will come back after a bit of time just to happen again. Sometimes the machine just dies with no spark or sometimes they emit a spark at the very first pull and not after. Sometimes they spark in free air but not under compression. And I also have had a couple that will idle perfectly but the high speed spark advance has failed and the engine just dies exactly like a bad carb and did exactly as above...two rebuilds later, I fitted a new carb and exactly the same thing, swapped the coil...bingo, absolutely perfect. I have had one or two with bad HT connections as well, in fact, if the HT circuit shorts or arcs, that can cause coil failure. If your machine was in and it wouldn't idle, I would fit a new solenoid pretty much before anything else bar a quick inspection...plug etc.

Strange one, you do need to view the spark in subdued light, pull it over pretty fast and also make sure the plug is earthed on the top of the cylinder. If you are still not getting a spark, did the new coil come with a new HT lead or was it the old one? How did you gap the coil to the flywheel? a business card is generally a good method. If all this has failed, the magnet has failed in the flywheel. This is pretty rare and only seen one before - a MS461 that has a nylon flywheel and the magnets are not the size of the ones on your machine. Generally magnets only fail through age...possibly 20 years+ or through impact with the coil of loose screw etc. Other than that, check the engine is earthed to the coil with a continuity meter.

Well when they do....don't park your car under them. I retrieved half a bucket of shyte from my cars two front wings after removing the expanded rubber inserts....all leaves and seeds and have only had it around 5 years. 400.....masochist!!

Just picked up on this thread.....better than a soap opera and similar to the Two Ronnies.....I need some "O"s.... It looks like this tree needs a bit if audience participation from both tenants or the landlord/agent to get off his arse, give the new growth a good dose of glyphosate and drill and plug the stump with a suitable kill and rot chemical or just glyphosate it. An ideal time would be during a long and hot dry season when any tree is under a lot of stress but never mind. I have learn't in life that bitching about something isn't going to do anything....get your landlord to get a suitably licensed gardener to spray all the new growth and plug the stump otherwise this will be a new thread about felling a tree in 15 years time!!!

It looks like a bigger version of my £45 24 litre one. It has been pretty much faultless in the 5 years I have had it, run it daily for most of that time. The only thing that failed was a thick rubber diaphragm which was some sort of pressure cut off and got a spare for £10 as it is a generic..."slap your company name on me" type. Better than the £120 screwfix one I had before. It is a bit noisy but....£45.....you can easily do that on a meal for two! I still don't know why it was so cheap as it went up to double my price a few days later....probably a mistake....and they delivered it for free