GardenKit

Result! Clean the pipe and see if it helps. Hopefully the inside and the port will be clear.

As Spud say, nail varnish is the normal sealer for threads and welch plugs in carburettors. It is actually a cellulose paint and as such is resistant to the solvents in petrol. For the sake of my reputation I make sure I get my daughter to buy mine and make sure that I only have the clear one, rather than pretty pink. I think 'Plastic Tape For Engineers' may be dissolved by the solvents.

Good luck!

If it starts, but just sits and ticks over normally, then check the throttle cable and trigger. It could be just that the throttle butterfly is not moving. If the butterfly is moving and the revs try to increase for a split second before dying back then that could would indicate a fuel starvation. If the tank filter is good and there are no holes or kinks in the pickup hose, then I would suspect the gauze inside the carb. If the revs are increasing but unable to achieve full revs but not dying back then i would suspect that the exhaust system is choked with carbon or oil residues. This could be just the spark arrestor, or the whole inside of the exhaust or the exhaust port in the pot. Remove the exhaust to check the port, if its clear you can run the machine without the exhaust on for a few seconds. If it runs up OK then there is a fair bet the exhaust is blocked (or the spark arrestor) Be careful running without the exhaust, it will be very loud, sparks and flames could come from the port, as well as very hot bits of carbon.

Its a pleasure to donate to this very worthwhile charity, after all, children are our future. Thanks for giving us the banner once again Steve, and I think its great that you put so much of your time into this raffle and to the the forum in general. For those amongst you who do not know us, we are a small family business in Devon serving local customers. We do not sell on line but are happy to help out arbtalkers with advice or parts if we can. Arbtalk is a great forum, with fantastic members. I have learnt a lot from this forum, either directly from others, or from researching others problems in order to offer advice. Arbtalkers are also a compassionate bunch as we have recently seen when we all dug deep into our pockets for little Fred, and to have raised £27000 in 6 years for the Children's Trust is just outstanding. Happy Christmas one and all, and good luck in the draw.

Gardencare is one of the better chinese products, but is, at around £230 for a 40cc machine, only of domestic quality. ( If I hired out machines I would certainly not use cheap machines such as this) It will quite happily run @ 50:1 on stihl oil. I am not surprised though, that the plug oiled up at 25;1.

The camera man is to blame, he knew it was slippery but did not warn the guy!! SUE, SUE, SUE...

I would have to dust off my 11/16 AF spanner:biggrin:

They do not use ladders round here anymore, just two miles of yellow hose and a long wobbly brush:biggrin: Yours does sound a bit suss though, might be worth informing the local boys in blue.

I grew out of playing with tractors.

Noises!! A few months ago a local guy could not start his 440, so he brought it in, desperate to start it to use on a job. It was one of those cases where I actually started it on the 4th pull, just luck I suppose. (well, possibly a bit of incredible skill too) But it sounded awful, rattling and clanking away. I said he should not use it, but he said "always sounds like that, s'okay" It came back today as the starter spring and pawls had parted company, so I checked out the clanking, the clutch segments were completely loose, no springs and no clips, yet it had been in regular use. Amazing.

Good for you mate!

:blushing:I tend to copy and paste things like that (cmd+C, cmd+V on the mac keyboard) without reading. Steve wrote it that way, so it got copied that way! Feel a bit stupid now:blushing:

:blushing:I knew that:blushing: E mail on its way!

hahah thanks Steve just trying to send an email but my email programme does not like your address admin at arbtalk.co.uk as on your first post, is it correct?

So they are not so sticky then, I missed out on that raffle notice.

I only ever view "todays posts" and no sticky's show up there. So I have just looked at "forums" to see if any show up there, and, indeed , they do. But the first "sticky" I looked at concerns the christmas raffle, and its the first I have seen about it this year. I was thinking it was bit conspicuous by its absence and was thinking Steve was leaving it a bit late. It seems by viewing only "todays posts" I am missing out on the more serious things on the forum. Is it only me that does it this way, or does something need changing? Barrie

Aah, thanks Steve. You are right, it does not need to be a sticky then, keep them for important things!

i know I am a few links short of a chain, but i have not quite sussed out what a 'sticky' is?

I do not think you have been snubbed Morten, and that comment is a bit of an over reaction to a simple opposite opinion.

I agree that it is difficult to trawl through a thread such as Spud's, as we do tend to drift on and off topic. But it is the ability to have a bit of good humoured banter between the serious (and for some, boring) subject matter that makes the forum what it is. It is, after all, a forum rather than a reference library, so I tend to agree that it is fine as it is. It may however be that members with specific questions should post a fresh thread within the chainsaw forum rather than ask within an existing thread as is happening in the 'bench' thread. In this way, as long as the thread title is descriptive, it would be easy to 'search' a specific subject.

Do you have a larger workshop now then Rich?

The issues I have had with the 201 have not been associated with the idle. I have got them to run seemingly perfectly, taching out OK, idling OK, picking up OK,even cutting small stuff OK, just bogging down in a heavy cut.

There are two things you need to make this work. Communication and Tolerance

I have done 100's of tonnes of firewood the same way, back in the 80's and working miles from anywhere on my own too. (no mobile phones either) I suspect that many others have done, and still do. I wonder what the percentage of accidents is compared with the percentage of accidents in trained operators?