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  1. openspaceman
    My thoughts too, This is old and tatty on an outing yesterday. Pulling WRC off a slope where no thought had been given to extraction and I'm too old to haul winch wire up hill 50 metres.
  2. openspaceman
    and another angle; how much have you spent on electricity this last week, I spent £1.40.
  3. openspaceman
    it would require billions of dollars investment and no one is going to loan that to a government that might renege on the deal
  4. openspaceman
    Belvedere, is it a point house by the sea?
  5. openspaceman
    and it's probably the best overall wood for firewood if it is cut split and seasoned from green so as there is no deterioration, it is dense, dries relatively slowly but has a bright lively flame.
  6. openspaceman
    Last birthday was your 21st then. We share the day of the month then.
  7. openspaceman
    A little update on the MS181C I was having trouble diagnosing a misfire on. I took @bmp01 up on his offer and finally got the saw to him on Friday. By the evening he had sussed out a number of faults, the coil gap way too large, purge bulb pipe not fitting properly and the biggy was the accelerator pump piston. By Saturday it was ready for collection with a modified carburetor and arrived back to me yesterday. Here it is cutting some wood immediately after running it 10 seconds from cold. I have now ordered some parts he suggested should be replaced before taking it back to the lady owner. @bmp01 may explain the detail better. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EHPlbeW3aI717zcwEPn0wq9Gl2T0_Heo/view?usp=sharing DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM
  8. openspaceman
    As @Deafhead says the chain that it "walks" on is missing. Also be aware that the way the wire gets held in the two "S" shaped clamps which interlock with the wire jammed between them means it can get squashed which is not a problem with ordinary barbed or line wire (apart from damaging the galvanising) but can cause a weak spot in higher tensile wires. PS Strange to see @Deafhead being a junior to my senior member status
  9. openspaceman
    Clean all the loose muck off before you take anything apart. Saw has been seized so will need at least a new piston.
  10. openspaceman
    They've gone up a bit, I'm sure I used to buy them from Greenhams at 50p each ten years ago
  11. openspaceman
    As the recent weather had dried out the track I returned today with the 2100, Steve's chain catcher and Stihl bar with adapter. It ran with no problems. Chain brake not functional but I doubt I'll find one and you can see where I smashed the top cover and fuel tank when my axe glanced off a log some 30 years ago.
  12. openspaceman
    The beech has suffered a fairly substantial reduction of the crown recently and mature beech don' react well to that. It looks like it is terminal decline if not dead already
  13. openspaceman
    I thought a mixture of chimney scrubbers on power plants from the early nineties and low sulphur fuels effectively stopped it by 2010.
  14. openspaceman
    Yes to some older physical/mechanical damage but the bark necrosis looks like it's recent (very little sign of wound growth). The lawn also looks very green so I'm thinking root damage exacerbates by fungicide/herbicide/fertiliser. All wild speculation without a wider view.
  15. openspaceman
    Timeserts have a flange that the plug can seat on but I haven't used them.
  16. openspaceman
    I knew the thing Mick was after and it just didn't click. Just down the street I lived a steam train driver used to walk to work with his lunch in one in the late fifties, I can picture him going past with his driver's flat cap and this bag slung over his shoulder.
  17. openspaceman
    Easier to fit a helicoil than to dissolve off aluminium pick up and de glaze a bore with wet and dry. Remind me of your rough location?
  18. openspaceman
    Yes are you sure you only need supplementary heat? With the price of gas going the way it is wood could become the main fuel.
  19. openspaceman
    @Jase hutch will know but it looks like an alternator problem and the stress control depends on the alternator to measure the rpm.
  20. openspaceman
    That's logical, heavier saw needs more counterbalance
  21. openspaceman
    Are you sure?
  22. openspaceman
    When they fitted mine they replaced the 100A one with a 60A I'd better correct that, the fitter said it was 60A but I just went out and looked at the meter and it's rated at 100A
  23. openspaceman
    Did he stop and sharpen it or just carry on?
  24. openspaceman
    15hp on a 240 Volt single phase is only about 50A so easily doable, starting up may need some thinking about. As long as you don't have a smart meter you might even do 30hp if the main fuse will stand 100A.
  25. openspaceman
    How on earth do they get to that? Grid is 3 phases 120 degrees between each phase

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