peatff
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Everything posted by peatff
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First thing to do would be to check the H & L screw by screwing them in till they seat gently then turn them out 1 full turn each then try to get the tick-over fairly even when you have warmed up the saw.
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Is that like a Tillotson ? I reckon it's worth £40 just to teach you a lesson, they are old technology, points and condenser and 20:1 oil ratio plus they weigh 8.5 kilos.
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You can eat the fresh tips off the knotweed apparently it tastes like rhubarb. You have to cook and eat them on site though as it is an offence to move it.
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I sometimes burn pallets and you get one of those under each corner and in the middle so I sometimes get 9 cubes for free. I didn't realise how much a cube cost these days with scrounging arb arisings.
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But the oil in the ground has taken millions of years to form and the plants will grow again next year and every year after that won't they ? As with everything else production costs will drop as new techniques are developed and new improved sources are found. Some way of turning plastic waste back into fuel would be a good start.
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MS460 bought on Gumtree as a do upper needing work and plastics. Thought it might be a project but looked at the piston through the exhaust and it's pretty good, compression is good now the decomp button is freed up. Cleaned the carb out and generally cleaned the saw and it fired up 3rd pull. The security caps on the carb are chewed up so I'll look at removing them to adjust the carb and get some plastics ordered next week.
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Any I have had to remove the handle cover there is usually a self tapper at the bottom end of the handle and you need to turn it over to see it. When it does come off watch out for the operator presence lever spring and make a note of where it came from.
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You should be taking this up with trading standards, you are eligible for repairs under the consumer rights act or the sale of goods act.
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Is it that you can see his lips move ?
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How is it rattling? Are you putting it in a box and shaking it?
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You could be digging down to 2 metres and an area up to 7 metres bigger than the original patch though, knotted is not easy to eradicate organically.
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If you don't got none just say so, right ?
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I used to help a mate who did tv aerials and it was always the older customers (of which I am now one :D) who had the money out when you got there and tea and biscuits ready to hand. He fitted an aerial system to a local moguls house, he had his own landing strip and Cessna plane and had to be taken to court to get enough money to cover what it cost to do the job. You do get a feel for the lie of the land eventually so get to trust some people.
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I bought some 18650 batteries for a torch, they are the cells inside drill batteries and some of the Chinese ones claim high mAh figures like 9000 but they are nothing like in reality seldom going over 3500mAh. Take the figures on replacements with a pinch of salt. The batteries still charge and light my torch and were half the price of Samsung ones so I don't mind so much.
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AT adjusts for the ambient air temperature flowing through the carb not the saw temperature. Different fuel types are alkylate or pump fuel for saws. I use Aspen2 in my saws even the ones that say 25:1 mix and have no problems. Carry on Echo I'm sure you'll find a saw that suits you one day from a dealer who really cares about you I'll come back and have a look in a few weeks, good luck with your quest.
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How will autotune compensate for a bad fuel mix ? It will only cope with conditions like filter blocking or damp, hot and cold temps and your altitude change.
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I would not err on the safe side if it caused me as much angst as it is obviously causing you. To run an emission test yearly for saws would mean they have to be registered and regulated like vehicles setting up a government body to do it and testing stations and relying on users being conscientious enough to bother following the rules, I can't see where the money would be in that. Just buy a saw and use it, once it is run in with a few tanks of fuel through it then worry about it.
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Volkswagen seemed to know a few workarounds The rules for chainsaws are for manufacturers, we can take them to bits and do whatever we like to them, they don't go in for a yearly MOT or whatever your equivalent is in Eire so how will they find out ? Do the Garda know what model saw you are using and that it should have a cat in the exhaust and do they have any test equipment to test your emissions ?
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There is no law saying chainsaws have to have a cat fitted or that it is illegal to remove it, unless you are in California I would stop worrying, buy a spare exhaust and get it decatted then if it fails put your original back on and send it back. Stop procrastinating or you will never buy a saw.
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Has it got piston rings in it ?
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That's the opposite of what CATs do, they get hot to burn the stuff that usually gets thrown out into atmosphere. The problem was with the heat melting the brake lever due to bad design on some saws. Are you just a natural pessimist or have you really had so much trouble with different makes that you can't make a decision which to buy ? Your Echo with altitude problems had me laughing out loud it would have to be retuned if you went up a hill round here or climbed a tall tree
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Sugihara and Tsumura are a bit out of my league for back yard firewood cutting. I bought a 20" Wartec with two chains for my 044 and I hit some metal damaging a couple of teeth on a chain and caused a tight spot in the bar. A bit of prising with a flat screwdriver and some work with a riffler file soon had it freed up and back in action.
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Drain the fuel by emptying the tank and running the saw till it stops if you are leaving it for any length of time and you will not have to do it again hopefully.
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Clean the aluminium transfer off it with some acid before you say it's rough, that should clean up a lot better with some 240 and light oil after the transfer is dissolved.
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I thought there was only the one Stubby, are the others in alternate realities ?
