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What happens if you tighten the side cover lightly so the bar can still be moved around but lightly clamped and then leave the chain a little loose and then tighten the cover fully? Does the chain tension up but still turn?

After running normally, does it start and run normally? If so I suggest a celebration, perhaps with alcohol, some nibbles and perhaps cheese. If it doesn't, perhaps do the alcohol and then when sober, double check the gauze strainer in the carb or replace it, check/replace the fuel filter, check the fuel line, remove the H&L screws and get a bit of cleaner down them and go from there. Make sure you note how many clockwise turns the H&L screw take to bed before removing them so you can reset them correctly. You may also find that if you undo the H&L screws by 1/2 turn, it may resolve your issues.

Most people do. I got by with 4Mbs for years, then got up to 100Mbs and didn't really notice much difference and now have 21Mbs - enough for HD catchup, Youtube, surfing etc. The same goes for people purchasing the latest quad core super duper PC for £600 and then run a Word Processor, the odd spread sheet on it and surf a bit where an old banger of a laptop will do...especially if you stick an SSD in it...like a turbo!

I can't be 100% but the 395XP clutch parts may fit as some sellers on eBay are selling aftermarket clutch parts for the 185, 285, 394 & 395. ADW will confirm..... if he can pull himself away from the Downton Abbey Movie he got on DVD for Christmas

Yup, I took a look at some of the spares prices for MS200Ts after offering to help someone out a few weeks back and bloody hell, the difference 18 months makes....the rises are mad. Same on building materials as well....we are not alone!

9000rpm is where the saw makes peak power, 12-13k sounds about right without knowing the exact figure.

Cheeky sod, I started on DOS, that makes me over 90 then

My brother had similar with Virgin. They did some sort of merge update and his email was mistakenly merged with some other random bloke in Australia I believe . He couldn't get anywhere with Virgin who seemed powerless/reluctant to resolve the issue so closed the account, went with BT and halved his bill by not having Virgin supply his TV...it was no more than Freeview anyway so purchased a Humax PVR so Virgin can jog on!! My advice to him was to use Gmail as his phone uses Android and once you have tied your Lappy/Tablet and phone together on android, it works pretty well. I used gmail for my business and it worked pretty well with no issues, emails can be picked up on a mobile or computer/tablet and anywhere you may go. As Rich said, if you have a mobile or any form of internet connection (yours or others), Gmail will work. One good thing is you can change your internet supplier every day and your Gmail account will still work as it isn't reliant on your ISP.

The rim floats in and out on the sprocket, this is normal and you just need care when fitting a chain on to the sprocket. It is very possible to get the chain down between the sprocket and rim or rim and crankcase on most rim drive machines unless care is taken.

Usually a bent con rod on hydro lock and I am not sure most people know where the engine is on their car let alone the parts that make them work or what they actually look like or do!

I went to my local bank branch and TBH, the bank was like a counselling session. One elderly lady being comforted in one of the side offices being assured that she wasn't about to lose all her money and there was no need to move all her money and one lady at the counter where the staff were trying to stop her transferring £3k to some bloke allegedly on a North Sea Oil rig that needed the money to get off the rig. It was less of a bank and more citizens advice on that day and probably most days.

It may be worth getting one of those lazer temperature guns. I did that and found I had one half of the stove cooler than the other and found the baffle was around 1 inch over to one side. They are a good way to look at the heat distribution of the stove and sorted out the mystery of one stove fan kicking in faster than the other.

But, technically this blower is four stroke as it has valves/camshaft and four strokes to make up a complete cycle. What you stick in the fuel tank doesn't denote what type of engine it is. Many customers of mine incorrectly think that Stihl 4T machines are two stroke just because you stick 2T fuel in them irrespective of the blat blat noise they make. Unfortunately, the OP saw "Four Stroke" and didn't contemplate the lack of oil filler etc. He just needs a few pointers as to what he does now.

Unfortunately, you won't be able to see the piston through the exhaust port as it is a four-stroke...sorry Openspace...... Also, if it is anything like the BR600 and most other Stihl 4T machines, they have built in decomp systems so the engine will feel pretty lacking of compression on the handle and in my experience, they only feel high on compression when the valve tappets need adjusting as the decomp system lifts the valves slightly on starting so the engine is easy to turn over and excessive tappet clearance messes this up. You could open up the tappet clearances and see if the compression feels strong or If you have two machines, a compression gauge could be used to measure the compression on both. Stihl 4T machines are sort of four stroke machines but they use 2 stroke mix to lubricate the moving parts usually lubricated by a wet sump (as in your car) or forced fed lubrication systems with oil coolers like you may find on some race engines. Running the machine on Aspen 4 may have damaged the main bearings, big end, small end, piston and any other bearing, bearing surface etc. It is almost impossible to say what has happened to this machine but the only positive is that the machine ran OK on Aspen 2 for 10 mins before failing so perhaps it isn't too serious so....all you need to do is check the machine has spark, fuel and compression. If it has and the spark is happening at the right time (ignition timing correct) it should run.

It will be a scam. I don't like the "HTTPS:/./.CMS" address I would think this should be more typically... HTTPS://www.cms............ so it may look convincing but don't believe that this will connect to any government dept. I don't think HMRC would be asking for your bank details like this, being self employed, you would have already set up your bank details with them so....if you want to lose your £££ then log on and give your bank details to some thieving scum. As someone else said, they just need one per thousand people and then take each for £1500 to be well in profit and doing very nicely.

As ADW said. In my experience, older machines like yours often suffer loss of compression so the feel of the compression on the starter handle is first thing to gauge. If poor then check out the piston, rings bore....probably a new piston will bring it back if it is bad but make sure the bore is in good shape. If you haven't got the CST then treat the saw like a normal non AT machine and you may well find the issue. On the carb...check the gauze strainer, the pump diaphragm and also check the metering diaphragm isn't bagged out of shape.

Sorry to hear that Duncan, hope you get it back in workable order.

If it looks deep, engage something called "reverse gear," turn around and find another route. A few years ago I blasted passed a flood sign saying to the wife "How bad can it be"....it was fecking bad as I hit what looked like the English Channel at 50mph and got it in to reverse PDQ before the water came in.

Yes, de-stress the main bearings before running it up but whomever fits them should do this.

With a lit stove, you can usually hear the roar of the air entering it when the dampers are opened so when the flue damper/dampers are closed, you should hear a big reduction in the induction noise. Is this happening on the stove?

Is this a new install or an existing one that has changed its burning characteristics? Logically, burning needs air and if you have plugged all the know air inputs, it must either be manufactured with a certain amount of air input outside of the controllable ones for "eco" reasons or the stove has a fault causing air to enter the stove where it shouldn't.

Good luck with it and thanks for the thanks.

I have just replaced the handle on my neighbours Ewell axe. It is a job that takes a reasonable amount of time but isn't too difficult if you are handy. The art is in making the part that fits in to the axe head as tight as it can be before splaying the end with a wedge to fix it in. I made a template of the axe head entrance out of card and then kept going until it snugly fitted up the complete formed end I was making. Anyway, it was a tight fit as I had to clump the head on with a 2lb lump hammer!! Have a go, I used a £15 handle off Amazon.

I did an Einhell hedge trimmer once, the gearbox had locked up. Turned the gears over backwards and it all freed up so handed it back fast and legged it. Great quality

Just looked at the carb pics again and, unless I am wrong, that check valve supplies the fuel to the high and low circuits from the look of it as there are no other jets present so blocking it would stop the machine running. Is it definitely a check valve? It does look like the type you get in a typical plastic purge bulb housing but not seen one like this but have spent the last 10 years avoiding them Do you think someone stuck a pin in it thinking it was a jet and fooked it?