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  1. openspaceman
    Timeserts have a flange that the plug can seat on but I haven't used them.
  2. 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.
  3. 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?
  4. 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.
  5. openspaceman
    @Jase hutch will know but it looks like an alternator problem and the stress control depends on the alternator to measure the rpm.
  6. openspaceman
    That's logical, heavier saw needs more counterbalance
  7. openspaceman
    Are you sure?
  8. 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
  9. openspaceman
    Did he stop and sharpen it or just carry on?
  10. 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.
  11. openspaceman
    How on earth do they get to that? Grid is 3 phases 120 degrees between each phase
  12. openspaceman
    Must be why I'm miserable
  13. openspaceman
    Having drawn a state pension for 5 years and supplementing it with part time working I'd say the biggest contribution to comfortable living is not having to pay rent, so look on buying a home as part of the plan. I actually only started drawing half of my private pension at 70, and that makes me an income tax payer again. My biggest single unavoidable expense taking up over a quarter of the state pension is rates.
  14. openspaceman
    Bloody cheek
  15. openspaceman
    8mm, 9.5mm or 10mm? Why double fishermans over a figure of eight or bowline?
  16. openspaceman
    What rope and length does one need for trying these different knots out on a modern climbing rope?
  17. openspaceman
    I have had this and it has been since I was prescribed statins following an incident.
  18. openspaceman
    Yes chrome plated aluminium cylinders were common on bikes and I assume saws in the 70s, I just wondered when nikasil bores became common
  19. openspaceman
    Me too, I'm all up for replacing a piston and recovering the bore on an antique but once you have to delve into the crankcase... BTW I have never split a chainsaw crankcase other than to see what's inside.
  20. openspaceman
    Mahle developed nikasil for car engines in the 70s, do you know when it was first used on saws?
  21. openspaceman
    That makes us two old fogeys then
  22. openspaceman
    My tractors got changed to historic vehicles without my requesting it, I wonder if they will catch me, last time I got pulled on one was 1980 in Chiselhurst.
  23. openspaceman
    I have searched for a number on mine but can only find the body type (C1M) and not the model number but suspect it's C1m-fr1 from googling . I would get parts from L&S or Rowena motors, hugo is very helpful there.
  24. openspaceman
    Zama carb kits are expensive so when I had problems with a Still HL75 long reach hedge cutter I bought a non genuine carb for it from L&S. It looks like you need part number 541-60430-03 but it might be worth asking if they have a non genuine carb. BTW my venerable Makita back pack blower is amongst my most reliable bits of kit. Carburetor Assembly for Makita PB500R Leaf Blower | L&S Engineers WWW.LSENGINEERS.CO.UK Carburetor Assembly for Makita PB500R Leaf Blowers. Genuine and Non Genuine parts Available.
  25. openspaceman
    Was, is and always will be as well as a religious bigot and war criminal.

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