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  1. 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.
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    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
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    I thought a mixture of chimney scrubbers on power plants from the early nineties and low sulphur fuels effectively stopped it by 2010.
  4. 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.
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    Timeserts have a flange that the plug can seat on but I haven't used them.
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    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.
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    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?
  8. 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.
  9. openspaceman
    @Jase hutch will know but it looks like an alternator problem and the stress control depends on the alternator to measure the rpm.
  10. openspaceman
    That's logical, heavier saw needs more counterbalance
  11. openspaceman
    Are you sure?
  12. 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
  13. openspaceman
    Did he stop and sharpen it or just carry on?
  14. 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.
  15. openspaceman
    How on earth do they get to that? Grid is 3 phases 120 degrees between each phase
  16. openspaceman
    Must be why I'm miserable
  17. 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.
  18. openspaceman
    Bloody cheek
  19. openspaceman
    8mm, 9.5mm or 10mm? Why double fishermans over a figure of eight or bowline?
  20. openspaceman
    What rope and length does one need for trying these different knots out on a modern climbing rope?
  21. openspaceman
    I have had this and it has been since I was prescribed statins following an incident.
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. openspaceman
    Mahle developed nikasil for car engines in the 70s, do you know when it was first used on saws?
  25. openspaceman
    That makes us two old fogeys then

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