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Join the wires by whatever means, twisting, soldering, thin screw etc. It does not matter how as long as they are joined. This stuff will insulate them nicely. It will stick anything to anything, will repair fuel tanks and oil tanks, will 'cap' damaged rubber plug gaps and will rebuild the rubber insulation of HT leads. It is brilliant, and IMO an essential workshop item. The downside is that you never use it all up before it goes hard in the tube, but the hardness starts from nozzle end so my tubes all end up being stabbed with a screwdriver to get the stuff out. Even so a tube usually lasts me about 8 weeks of small repairs. Its around a fiver a tube, I buy a case at a time from Cable Ties Direct

But once in a while they do not 'just fall off'. Then they are pigs to get off, Be careful about pulling it using the main body, you will just pull the clutch apart. Try instead to lever it down from the pulley above, using levers between the pulley and the chassis. It should not need to move far to free up.

You think like me too, except I would use 'mower repair sidmouth' but that does not matter as long as my site content uses those 3 words somewhere, and often. Better still to have them all together, but thats bad grammar.

Better luck later if the plucking has not worn him out:001_rolleyes:

The tune of a machine running Aspen will be very similar to that of one running on E10 petrol. If following E5 petrol with Aspen it could be that the L screw would need richening very slightly, but this should be no more than 1/8 of a turn out. If following ethanol free petrol then the L screw may need to be richened just a touch more, but no more than 1/4 turn. After the amount of work you have done to your saw I strongly suspect that the cause of your problem is related to the work rather than the fuel. If you suspect that Aspen is the problem (which I doubt it will be) then put some petrol in and give that a try. Reckon you need to check your work, particularly in relation to pressure/vac testing, compression, and impulse line integrity.

But with 'strimmer repair budleigh salterton' we do not appear due to the reason mentioned earlier. I have now rewritten page content to address that situation, but google takes a while to recognise the changes. Correction, I have just googled it and the changes have been picked up!

Haha, yes Steve, you did choose the wrong day as I remember:biggrin: As regards ebay, papers, leaflet drops etc. Have dropped all of these adverts now and only rely on word of mouth and the website. The old website is getting a little dated so I have just commissioned the design of a brand new 'responsive' website with full CMS. Its a lot of money in one shot, but only half of what I used to spend annually on other media.

Haha, not me! With 'mower repair exeter' I do not even get on first page, but 'garden tractor repair exeter' gets us to position 2 on page one. (website begins with G) I have spent the last two hours searching things like 'mower repair' followed by the town and village names within about 6 miles and am pleasantly surprised to find we are normally on page one near the top. I will work on the wording in the lower ranking searches to bring them up google listing I have not actively sought to achieve ranking in Exeter as it is on the edge of my 'patch', but was quite surprised how high some searches come.

Congratulations on your new job Paul. Make sure to get a week off for the 'Tuckerfest' this year, and dont forget, you still owe us a visit!

Thanks Richard. To be honest its very easy for us to rank well with the search you used. The word 'lawnmower' can be found time and time again in the text of the site, as can 'Sidmouth' because, after all, Sidmouth is part of our postal address. Exmouth is just as close to us but its more difficult to rank highly there simply because it takes more thought to include the word 'Exmouth' in the site text. I am spending many hours writing the text, and rewriting it. And doing searches to see how the site performs. I found we were doing poorly in anything related to 'strimmer', simply because I always refer to them as 'brushcutters' when I write content. Some people may search for 'grass cutter repairs' in which case our site will never appear because I have never thought to include those terms.

Agreed, but QR codes have been around a while now but do not seem to have really caught on. But they are brilliant to use and do much easier than tapping in a long URL. I am going to put some on the van soon.

Cool, is there any way of telling on the analytics if anyone is visiting your site via QR?

Cheers Bob, you think like me. I had the Yell.com lady on the phone today with the line " your website is not being found". She carried on to say that most people use Google to find Yell.com, then search for whoever they want in Yell. I just do not believe that! I am pretty sure we don't do too bad, but I have let the SEO slip a bit, so am spending hours rewriting the content. But the trouble is that I write it to suit the way that I think, so its good to get other views.

How many of you are using QR code graphics. Do they work for you?

Have any of you put QR code stickers for you web address on you van. If so, do you find anyone actually uses them?

cheers Goaty To be honest 80% of my business is generated within about 6 miles of Sidmouth, so its that area I want to attract. If you have the time, look on a map, choose your location within 6 miles of Sidmouth, then search and see who you find. Let me know what words you use.

I guess we all search in slightly different ways, i.e different search engines and different words or phrases. I am currently rewriting my website content in readiness for our new website in order to get the best SEO. If you lived somewhere between Exeter and Lyme Regis and needed your mower mended which Search Engine would you use, and which words would you type in? Then, who do you find? Barrie

Never had that happen to me either:blushing: but the first time it never happened was the last time I kept my petrol can on the bench:001_rolleyes:

Its good to read such a positive post TGB:001_smile: There have been many posts concerning the relatively high cost of Aspen. You are obviously happy to pay the price because you have come to value the benefits. Has the extra cost made noticeable difference on your bottom line, or have the benefits compensated?

This is the result of storing a 2 stroke dry. The diaphragms dry out and harden in the absence of petrol. Of course keeping petrol in is bad too as it deforms the diaphragms as it ages.

Rodents!!!

The gearboxes of the big Honda mowers are very similar to those in the Kaaz machines. (Kaaz manufacture the Lawnflite pro, Shanks,Sarp, Kubota, Cobra, etc) There have been many reports of gearbox failure, but many, many users have had no issues. The gearbox is extremely well engineered which is what makes it so expensive to replace, but gearbox failure as such is rare. What is more common is that the engagement clutch plates wear, firstly causing a sort of clicking when taking up drive and eventually no drive at all. The wear is caused by the high initial torque supplied to the clutch plates. The box is shaft driven, so there is no 'give' and the mower is heavy so it takes a bit of effort to get it moving. The clutch slips and wears a little more every time. This wear can be substantially reduced by giving the mower a bit of a shove and engaging the drive after the mower is moving. Some of the operator books even state this as the correct method (It helps to extend the life of any self propelled mower) To overcome this problem the newer model Kaaz machines have a torque limiter built into the drive shaft which slips first therefore taking the torque off the clutch plates. I do not know if Honda have taken this up. So do not be put off buying the Kaaz, which is in my opinion the best heavy duty mower on the market. Just use it properly.

But, with respect, you need to meet the man in order to judge him. Paul knows exactly where he is, and where he wants to be.

Good to see you on the up again Paul. Something like that chest infection can knock you for six. I hope that this year finds you the elusive dream job you are searching for, but the risk in that is that you may then settle down and this thread may become dull reading! In the meantime, keep enjoying (and sharing) your adventures, they give the rest of us an insight into the way others work and live. Heck, we even get to see their wives and inside their houses, as well as their culinary skills. And, after all, how many of us have met a mermaid? (although I do believe they carry MTD (mermaid transmitted diseases), probably caught your chest infection from her. You are the true rolling stone, far better to have had the adventures you have over the past couple of years than to have sat at home gathering moss and moaning about your lot as many others do.

Reckon I am more "Pre School"