openspaceman
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@Stephen Arb Association may not have seen this but as he has responded elsewhere...
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No sign of any bare wires, are there any resistance or continuity checks that can be done on the coil while it is out? I have a bit of hedge cutting to do today but will get back on it this evening. Parts are showing as on back order so if I need a new coil it will take a while In the meanwhile I have a Mk1 coil which can go cheap, never fired up, as the owner says it was his mistake so will not ask for a refund and also out of time.
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Thanks @spudulike I did think there was a reason the plug lead was a bit short. The part number of the blue coil is 518723602 so mk1 will refit the old coil as you say and report back
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Way too modern for me with lots of electrickery I don't understand but a chap I used to help out has dropped off this saw which won't run. He did not explain why he decided to put the new coil in, the previous (OEM?) one is just black and marked walbro. I wonder if it is the right coil as the plug lead is a very hard and tight fit. @adw? Spark is weak and the picture is taken with the coil gap at 0.4mm and near enough TDC. It does not fire at all even with the new plug (he did not bring the original plug) or with petrol spray in the intake. I see the heated handles seem to use the power off the coil pick up instead of a separate alternator mounted under the flywheel like the old type?? Any other thoughts? Is this a case of needing to set something up on a diagnostic port?
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I wish I had bought a few more but only got 5ltr and by the time that was used the price was high.
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'Cept it has gone from 15 quid in April 21 to 25 quid now
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I doubt that as the state is very profligate with our money and no reason to believe anyone in government was looking to the future when the effluent from fossil fuels was ignored. We have now seen our dependence on foreign owned resources is becoming an economic disaster, mostly caused by using the american model of share ownership causing the demise of home industries.
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As are all the utilities which is why I do not like them being owned by foreign companies, their privatisation should be regulated with that in mind
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@CESAW has not been here since 2019 but this may wake them up. Else the chairman of the Forestry Contracting association knows something about these winches.
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This is what I did if I wanted to give the hinge more bend but the grain has to be fairly vertical; place your gob top cut, then bore in with a vertical cut to meet it, then make your bottom cut so as to leave a vertical hinge the width of the bar, make your felling cut to meet the top of the vertical.
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Never tried that so it's a new one for me. The extra bend length for that part of the hinge means a high stump is inevitable but as you put the diagonal down cut in first why not keep the saw level when doing the vertical down cut and feel for the meeting with the diagonal cut? A small over cut into the middle of the hinge isn't going to matter any worse than a letterbox.
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Yes it wouldn't have in my favourites at the time but very fond of it now as a reminder of the times and loves lost.
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Good cover, close to Maggie. Another Aussie for whom the carnival is over
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Inflation erodes the buying power of a wage packet and not necessarily fixed assets, they remain priced by supply and demand.
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Yup, just the thought of it brings it to the fore
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I picked a couple and they are not as funky as the OP's but it may still be a variant of scots pine unless there are better suggestions
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I shall have tot ake a walk and look at some green scots pine cones because everything else suggests scots pine.
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It looks like a mixture of frass from a boring insect plus the resin exuded by the tree trying to drown them. If it really is spruce bark beetle ( a little thing with orange hairs which I haven't yet seen) then the tree will not be healthy for long. In fact boring insects generally are better at spotting a vulnerable tree than we are and normally start with that, once the population explodes then all the trees in the monoculture are at risk.
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Yes and that trait is what meant our ancestors survived but we have never got beyond that economic competitiveness to progress any further than a cell of yeast pickling in its own excrement. In fact it only needs us 2 billion wealthiest to perish as we are behind 90% of the pollution. Even so there would still need to be some intervention to help nature out and rapidly reduce CO2 because all that coal we burned was produced at a time many organisms that decayed vegetation had not evolved.
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£70 million in fines for pharma firms that overcharged NHS - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK After reassessing part of the case, the CMA has found that Pfizer and Flynn abused their dominant positions to... a bit earlier than today but this is the firm that provided much of the covid vaccines and all?? the boosters so those figures are yet to come That's a big export of dosh no wonder the pound is reaching parity with the dollar
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Yes I forgot about that telltale. I also once made the mistake of sending a machine off a remote job to a non GM machinery dealer who did have the correct grinder. They swapped out the blunt but never been sharpened discs and replaced with some that had been sharpened undersized and poorly balanced. The lads complained bitterly that the machine was throwing out slivers.The reason for having to use a dealer to change the blades was that none of our lads on the job had been shown how and I had witnessed the results of someone changing blades without the competence to do so.
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Willow tree in clay near property
openspaceman replied to Swaity's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
This isn't likely to be tree related and I am no structural engineer nor expert anything but my guess is there is differential movement between the original building and the extension, as the extension has piled foundations they are probably better than a 1930s strip foundation and hence probably move less as the soil moisture changes. -
Yes but note GM specify a minimum weight and diameter they can be ground to.
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local wildlife (fur,feathers and beasties)
openspaceman replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Picture Forum
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Round here they seem to inject human waste rather than spread, not seen any pig farms locally for a long time.
