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Only with milk and two sugars, Steve:biggrin:

Not quite sure why you taught him to fish Steve, all he wanted to do was sharpen his saw:confused1: And never underestimate 'The Aspenator":lol:

Before geting too concerned, just try richening the L screw a little, probably no more than a 1/8 turn anti clockwise should do it. This can't harm the saw and its possible that the problem is due to slight wear in the carb. If this does the trick you should be OK, but should really get the H setting checked by someone who knows what they are doing, as it might be that the L adjustment has weakened due to an air leak which will also effect the H. If this is the case it could result in expensive failure if not rectified.

Here we go:lol:

And just another bit of wisdom. I guess your saws are running and useable at the moment and you just want to make sure they are on peak performance. If this is the case then you will be looking at very small adjustments, probably only a few degrees of rotation. Mark your adjustment tool with some tipex and relate that to something on the saw before you move it, so you know where to go back to if needed. (or make a card disc with degrees marked and push your tool through the centre)

An oil soaked trouser leg and one shiny boot! I have not done it either!!

I would never ask for advice, or have anything fitted there. I knew someone who got a job there and had to fit a radio on his first day, with NO training! I do buy some tools and oils from them. I have a trade card and it makes some of their prices pretty good.

Training as a mechanic is a good start, I am a qualified Agricultural Engineer, and thats what I did well for 20yrs, great on tractors, combines, land rovers etc, but......USELESS on two 2 strokes. I used to fiddle the screws this way and that, bend metering arms and fit diaphragms, all with NO knowledge of what I was doing. I lost count of how many saws I ruined through my ignorance. When I started in the garden machinery trade I was good on 4 stroke engines but had to learn fast on two strokes, and found that they were actually quite simple. I read books and web articles, and with plenty of practice soon became good with them. But I wish Arbtalk had been around then as there is more info available on here than anywhere else I have found. If you study Spuds thread from the beginning you should be able to learn enough to tune your saws. If in doubt, ask!

I turn my back for a while and look what happens,

Bills method worked for him. The stihl part number 9134 381 1230 is a grub screw. Apparenty you just screw it into the hole with a little loctite on the thread, it taps its own thread in the plastic. Leave about 1.5mm stuck out, then you know its not gone too deep. So it seems that all you have to do is block the hole, which is only there as part of manufacturing and blocked with the little orange bung which sometimes falls out, but is not available as a spare part.

Something like this came up before, worth a look? http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/chainsaws/49159-stihl-025-a.html

I'm almost afraid to say this, but I'm off to bed. Goodnight.

There would have been pop up pistons, and loads of squish around

At my age it would maybe have been a bit slower

I heard that! What happens in Spuds shed,stays in spuds shed.

No scrap saws in lately, but this 24" Atco came in today. It does start, and has been in regular use, but has no grass box. It has been "maintained" by its elderly owner who recently died. his widow sent it in for service so the gardener could use it, but it needs a lot spent on it to do it properly, so today she bought a new JD JS63 rotary mower from me which is frankly, much more suited to her present garden. She was very pleased that this might receive a donation to The Childrens Charity, to make use of it "for spares or repairs" rather than be scrapped, and thought that £30 would be a good figure. So if anyone wants to offer, on this thread, to donate £30 to the trust, they can come and collect the mower from me.

Loved that, first good laugh of 2013:thumbup:

Might be as well to google driftwood. There is something I recall about toxic fumes from driftwood, due to the salt its soaked up. May be nothing, but worth checking.

Thats sad news, but its been repaired in the past and I guess it will be repaired again. They will probably still claim its 3000yrs old! It reminded me of another quite comical disaster that occurred there about 15yrs ago. A friend of mine was a rep for a well known ATV firm. He was demonstrating his top of the range diesel machine to a local farmer one winters day. The demo went well until the farmer says " will it go across the river beside the Steps? my old Honda will. If it will I'll ave it." Always one to rise to a challenge, my old mate drove into the ford, and promptly sunk his ATV. He waded back to the bank and said angrily " you said your Honda goes through" The old farmer boy said " Arr, it do, but only in the summer":lol: '

I have been googling the newish craze of adding 2 stroke oil to your diesel fuel in your car, van etc. It is widely claimed that adding mineral 2T oil to your diesel at around 200:1 results in more MPG, quieter engine and longer injection equipment life. Has any member tried this, or have expert knowledge on the subject?

I'm with Spud on this. I have no experience of this guy on ebay, so I am not knocking his skill, but... I am pretty good on carbs myself, but would not want to send one to a customer with the promise it would work unless I had fitted it to a saw and tested it first. I have sometimes overhauled carbs several times and they still don't work. This guy may indeed work for a lot less than me, but i can't see how anyone can properly overhaul a carb (which has to have a new carb kit) and fit it to a saw for testing, then remove it, pack it and post it, for £25.00 I would be wary,but this could be unfair, so I am also interested to hear from any forum member who has used this service.

Whilst having Aspen on B&Q shelves would without doubt make it better known and available locally to more people I have my doubts it would work. B&Q are known to be very expensive on all their essential items, people just buy from them for convenience. Sure, they advertise certain products at cheap prices to get people through the door, but all the 'add ons' are not cheap. For instance they have cheap chainsaws, but the 2 stroke oil to go with them is a massive £9.98 per litre ( I sell Rock 2 stroke for £5.00 per litre) I am making margin at £5.00 for this premium product, you can bet there cost price is much, much less than mine, certainly less than £2.00 so they are on around 400% markup. If they wanted the same markup on Aspen ( and considering the extra storage precautions, they are bound to) they would probably want to sell it at over £20 per litre! Added to that, Aspen, even at £3.50 ish per litre, does not sell itself. This is why so many dealers say that it does not sell. In order to get Aspen to move off the shelves the dealer has to 'sell' it to each and every customer in the first instance. This takes time and effort, an effort that pays off quite well as I have proved. B&Q rely on shelf displays to sell, so it will just sit and gather dust. The best way forward for any member of this forum who wants to use Aspen but does not have a local dealer, is for them to ask their dealer to stock it. Make him aware that there is a market for it. If any of your dealers are interested but sceptical, I am quite happy to talk to them. Just PM me and I will let you have my number to pass on. For those of you who don't know, I do not represent Aspen, but am a dealer with a great respect for the product and a large turnover.

Normally machines convert to Aspen with no retuning. Dont be put off by the bad reports, they are the minority.

The Australians are a bit more to the point than us. This is graphic and may upset. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8]TAC Campaign - 20 year Anniversary retrospective montage "Everybody Hurts" music by REM TV ad - YouTube[/ame]

You are dead right zeroluke, there is nowhere near enough awareness of Aspen, but the problem for AAoil is where to advertise. I sell a huge amount of Aspen, but about 75% goes to Jo Public, who only knows about it because I have told him. Where would we advertise to such a person, he probably reads no trade journals. The members of this forum are probably the most aware group of people in the UK, but sadly are a fairly small number of people in comparison to the potential customer base. On the subject of recycling. There is no reason why the recycling facilities should not take the cans. They are made of exactly the same material as milk bottles and carry the same marks. Just remove the sleeves. They cannot be refilled at UK outlets because Aspen is not stored in bulk in the UK.