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Grab some spray carb cleaner, start it, tip it on its side to the point when it starts to die and with the narrow plastic straw fitted to the nozzle on the can, quickly give it a little spray in one of the cooling holes in the starter housing....towards the front, as far away from the carb intake as you can.....if the revs momentarily increase then its the crank seal failed. Quick and easy way to check

Likewise, as you cannot ask for a sellers address or telephone number until youve actually won said auction, you cannot now view an item before bidding. So if you have a rare or expensive bit of kit (or both) and you want to check the condition before you bid, you can now no longer view it. On expensive, collection items i always used to put in the description, viewing before bidding is welcome (always reassures a potential bidder i have nothing to hide) can no longer do that, so bidders are buying blind...particularly on iffy listing pics and descriptions. I know why they did it, as obviously people were settling a deal in person and auctions were being cancelled, but i always found it reassuring that a seller was happy for someone to come and view

There did, but its been withdrawn if you havent already got the buyers details via the sale transaction page you get when you sell something. It was stopped due to data protection laws. For the last near ten years you havent been able to exchange details via ebay messages unless its after the auction has finished and it is between buyer and seller. Don;t care what people have said about trying to be clever and try and circumnavigate this by putting numbers in words or spaces or hyphens or whatever between numbers (written or otherwise) it wont work and you will get a terse message from ebay giving you a slap on the wrist. Only way around it would be to add a photo to your listing with your contact details in, but you then run the risk of being reported by someone who knows what you are up to. Its clear in the listing rules you cant do that....and ebay now have software that can recognise contact info in photographs.....its now free to list and zero sellers fees on most categories on ebay now...if you are a private seller, so now no reason to buck the system quite so much

Which is what I said isn't it? Even then it may well get picked up on their software. It's happened to me.

No you cant ....unless you are very inventive and you try to circumvent 'normal' communication...and even then it is very difficult. If you think you can simply message someone with your contact details then im afraid you are incorrect

You cant do that effectively as you cannot communicate addresses emails tel numbers etc in normal messages prior to the sale. So if you did end an auction, then both you and the seller wont have contact info so rendering ending the auction for an off ebay sale impossible

The code on collection system has been in place for sometime. Most of what i sell on the bay is too big for postage so pretty much all is collection. I always ask for payment on collection.....simply because before someone pays me, I want to demonstrate it to them so they are happy before parting with their money....to me, it shows honesty on my part and is reassuring for the buyer, plus its less messier than trying to do a paypal refund should someone in the unlikely event they arent happy. My phone isnt an android, so the code system doesnt work on it any way. It never used to bother me or the buyer that i couldnt put the collection code in. I always mark an item as payment received, and you used to be able to mark it as item collected. I did note on my last collection i went to mark as payment received which i could but the option of item collected has disappeared, so for the last 6 weeks since collection its still showing as 'now send the item' Im not that worried as i have the cash.

I do find this quite amusing. The FS106 was produced from mid 80s to early 90s, so even the youngest around would be over 30 years old. The value is zero, OK, maybe £30 if you're lucky. Try going into your Ford dealer and ask for a part for even a ten year old fiesta worth a grand and the part would still be obsolete. Why in their right mind would a company keep making parts for a machine that is A. at least 30 years old and has outlived it's projected life around 3 times over, and B. No one is going to spend more than it's worth on repairing. Like all 'classic car' people if you want to keep something running then you don't go to the original dealer, you go to a specialist or you re-manufacture yourself.

Picture paints a thousand words IMO

In a domestic use situation or even gardener type application there is nothing wrong with the MS211..........a good reliable saw. Ok, it's not for going out to work for several hours a day, whereby using a chainsaw is near 100% of the tool required, but in a job whereby it can be part of your machinery that gets occasional use, then it is fine......and that's it's intended use. I do agree a 261 in a pro environment, whereby trees are your job, then you can't go far wrong. Horses for courses.

Admittedly a rear roller mower isn't great for mowing lawns all year round- they are more of a finishing mower- just like the old cylinder mowers used to be. Draw back to using a wheeled mower when the ground is damp and spongy at this time of the year is you will get tramlines in the lawn which looks unsightly and adds ridges to the surface. If you have worm casts, then yes using a roller mower may be messy, but the roller is doing its job by flattening them down...which is a benefit.

Landfill.....

Well , when I started I had hair and a six pack. I now don't have hair where I need it and loads where I don't and the only six pack is in the fridge.

Either been run for sometime previously on an oil rich mix and the muffler is partially clogged so not getting hot enough to burn the excess oil off, or you are currently running a very rich mix and that is the excess oil in the vapour. And when you say you have torched the muffler, did that entail actually removing it and getting it red hot all round? Whilst you had it off did you check/clean or remove the spark arrestor (if fitted)