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Rick Beato I'd guess? For me Ernie Ball all the way, 9's on the strat, 10's on the tele and acoustically always EB's heavy bottom light top 10 / 52 with a plain 17 G. 👍

I've no idea, but if iirc it sold for 40K ish 35 years ago.. it was absolutely beautiful and great to ride. Really only worked on 2 Vinnies as in building the engines, that and a Comet. The bottom ends were probably the most beefy, bullet proof but simple that I ever saw.... although a lot of the gubbins was on the outside which I didn't really mind as it was accessible so serviceable. I also thought similar about the only Jota that I had in bits { but to a lesser extent } the quality of the engineering was cheaper as what went with the era, but still muckle compared to the 70's / 80's British equivalent... imo of course.... which I suppose would have been a delicate Norman Hyde Trident.

I did that in my teens, the 2T was a big performance boost but scary with bantam brakes.. First bikes at 14, Two 1949 C11g's for £6 10 shillings, a fortune back then😁 built one out of the two and used it to go to school well before being legal, parents didn't know and nobody ever asked. Best bike of that era was a 1976 Rickman chassis kit with a tuned t140v engine. Most fun 81' 440 Maico enduro. Probably the best / most memorable bike I rebuilt was an Egli Vincent with a Black Shadow engine 👍👍 Seems like someone else's life now, Cheers.

Common sense is extremely rare these days as I'm sure you're very aware of, to me it's very troubling just how stupid most folk are becoming, too stupid to even discuss current affairs with any intellect... Happily ' to some extent ' it would appear that many of the cancelled world's most eminent scientists seem to be being allowed to once again voice their opinion, although it would appear that the the damage is already done, and the latest generation have zero interest in logic, truth or feck all else of any value.

Hi Stubby, also known as a plumbers version of a crows foot spanner, very handy when nothing else gets in there.👍

Or if you were really stuck you could do this, but proper tyre lube makes it easier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWd5vwUeYno

Hi, I can't comment on the hedge trimmer but my experience of Honda 4 stroke garden stuff is with the UMK450 e brushcutter which I'm very unimpressed with. It's heavy, slugish and and uses more fuel than my previous Tanaka and Kawasaki 2T 45cc strimmers... but the main problem with it is that it has zero ability for carb adjustment which any engine needs imo. Don't get me wrong, I have many things that run Honda GX engines but these latest garden machinery engines that can't be adjusted or tweaked are a complete pita and as well as that because of relative rarity there's very little advice or alternative spares available online. I've repaired engines for a living all my life, but " Honda power of dreams " would seem now to be feckin BS when it comes to their 4 stroke garden hand tools. Ok rant over, but as a quick search gives a price of around £650 for the HHH25 while you can get a Stihl HS45 for around £250 which will cut a bit more than 3/8" { I'm imperial 😁 }, why would you even consider it. Just my disappointed opinion, but if it doesn't have H and L adjustment screws on the carb... Don't buy it. Cheers

Got one of these... very nice saw👍

My AP300 batteries overheat and fade quite rapidly if getting used constantly as in blocking up firewood or going through a big trunk and when that happens, they won't charge until they've cooled. They get to a point where the power drops off noticeably and On the other hand, if just doing a garden type job where sporadic use never lets the batteries get hot they definitely last much longer ' in terms of how much cutting for 1 charge '. There's no doubt that in any electronic system overheating robs efficiency exponentially, and although I find the battery saw very convenient.... I used my Husky 154 for my last job, what a joy👍😁

Impressive collection .. do they all run?

Thanks, that helps me too, cheers.

Lyme disease is named after the town of Old Lyme in Connecticut USA which has the highest incidence of Lyme disease recorded [ reputedly ] It's the nearest town to Plum Island off the NE coast of America which after WW2 many German biological weapons scientists were relocated to when the war ended [ allegedly ] much like Wernher von Braun and his band of rocket scientists who were given a free pass to the USA. Fairly easy to research for anyone who wants to look, although difficult to deep dive.... Just food for thought.

I've had many ticks over the years as have my dogs, I have a reasonably bad reaction to them, usually a very itchy lump about the size of 1/2 a golf ball which can take around a month to completely subside. Probably more than 10 years ago after a particularly bad reaction to a tick just above my c*ck I went to a busy multiple GP practice in the NW of Glasgow and asked for a Lyme test.... I was surprised to find out that they had never done this before and I knew far more about Lyme than the experienced GP did although this practice is less than 1/2 a mile from a wild park which deer inhabit. When I asked where they would send my blood to be tested The GP didn't know, although I had already done my own research and had found that German labs had the best results as the OP mentioned.. but mine sample was sent to somewhere in Ayrshire and came back negative.. I'm not surprised by any of this as the deeper I dig the more ignorance I discover. I spend most of my time in the NW Highlands where we are inundated with tourists from all around the world, and I've often wondered how many of them go home after a short holiday and a lot of masking of other insects by midgie bites to find that after a while they have an undiagnosed life changing illness where no one can join the dots.

Yep 14", but it's not a big cost to have both.

Yep, being 5 years ago I'd have to guess that the 1st post of part numbers was from researching the possibility online and the 2nd post in December is what I actually bought from my local Stihl dealer, I've just checked the bar and it's 1.3 mm [ 3005 000 4809 ]. If you have one of these saws and your running the shitty wee PM chain I'd guess that you'd be blown away by the difference from swapping out everything, I think from memory about £68. I started with Stihl full chiz 3/8" which I run on most of my saws, and I know you're thinking ' that'll hurt the battery' but it doesn't as it cuts much quicker and may actually do more work per charge. Also with the bigger chain the sprocket is of a larger diameter although with fewer teeth as the bigger chain won't go round such a small radius and the knock on effect of this is a higher chain speed, or gearing up. I know from the Stihl rep who was on here a bit back that the msa 220 has a slightly more powerful motor but that doesn't stop this mod to the msa 200 being a great improvement. Currently I'm using Panther full chiz 3/8" chain from Chainsawbars and I've gotta say that it's on par with Stihl performance wise but much cheaper and from memory about 1.5mm more tooth, so after a year of using I'll give Panther chain 5 stars👍

Jeez, 5 years on.. yep it totally transformed the saw into what you expect👍

While I take your point that it may be diluted as if left in a bucket it will thicken .. it's always going evaporate as that's how it dries, personally I use the stuff pictured and at £200 ish for 20 gallons it is the real stuff ... I recon it's the bollocks compered to everything else that I've found for sale for a long time.. The fact is that it's not super thin , but it's an ideal viscosity for dipping really dry wood and letting soak in, anything really that you want to preserve outside but don't need to touch. I don't use it on a hot day as I did that once 40 years ago, and I don't fancy spraying it one tiny bit.

Yup, as someone who receives a pension I totally agree with that.

While I agree that the other things you mentioned are very bad, the origin of seed oils was 'what to do with' the waste seeds in the cotton industry of the late 1800's to make money, the answer was to get us to eat the waste by making it into the cooking oil Crisco and at the same time demonising animal fats.. a couple of decades later the heart disease epidemic arrived, very easy to research, and there is so much easy to reach info out there on this subject. This 2 minute vid explains the same situation vis a vis Rapeseed or Canola, plus bearing in mind that nearly all the rapeseed grown globally has been genetically modded by arch-criminal Gates.

A quick calc would have it at 1.552 0z per litre which might make it a concentration of 3.72% per litre, which means if you want to treat milled lumber to prevent milled lumber from insect attack, bacterial or fungal infections it's fecking really cheap If you are a legit business with a reason for using it as in preserving milled lumber or dozens of other uses, this is where I bought my last batch.. although back then it was £47 per 25kg, hundreds of times cheaper than diy store watered down pish, imo. Borax Powder Cleaner 25kgs - Multi Functional Product WWW.RYEOIL.CO.UK Rye oil is proud to present, 25KG of pure lab grade Borax Powder (Sodium Tetraborate Decahydrate) for your multipurpose needs.

Borax, Sodium Borate Decahydrate a common salt is the answer, 1kg dissolved into 5 gallons of hot water or any other proportion of the same when painted on or dipped will protect milled lumber from fungal infection and kill boring insects, it's trying to be restricted but has 100's of industrial uses. Borax Powder 0.5 Kg / 500g Multipurpose Household Cleaner Slime Activator 99.99% Pure – Borax Direct WWW.BORAXDIRECT.CO.UK

I might have put this up before, but it's worth another shout for sure.

Yeah, it's really interesting to find out what our ancestors new about the nature of what's all around us before possibly millennia of accumulated knowledge was discarded by those who seek to benefit from patenting everything that would previously been free to all. Another good example of this is the Birch tree, which grows all around the northern hemisphere and has many uses from fire lighting to medicine,...but not tool handles. Without wanting to derail the thread I think some on here might be interested in this vid of Dartington food forest in Devon which may be struggling to survive in the coming years.

I have had this for a number of years although only for personal use since being retired, and as others have said you fill the bag in jig time and you don't want to suck up a stone for sure.. but I've found it to be a useful tool as I hate raking. I've a Beech hedge and when I trim it I like to mulch the leaves for the compost heap, to that end I blow the leaf litter to a pile with no stones and instead of the supplied bag I fit a length of 100mm ? flexible hose to the outflow pipe and stick that into a ton bag with it's lifting loops tied together, it works really well, but i understand the fragility of doing this in many commercial situations. I don't think that buying the blower with it's vac attachments costs much more than without, so I don't see the point of not having this option to hand on the occasions that it might save you physical labour, a quick search shows only a £30-40 difference..... I think I got mine online rather from a main dealer.... just my tuppence worth.👍

Recently bought a very little used 020T for £300, it's a wee cracker. I couldn't resist it even although I'm getting on a bit to be up a tree.. All I can say is " We don't need no stinkin tickets " .... when you've got a bus pass 😁 And with a powerful angle grinder like a dewalt, these 1mm cutting discs can be explosive and need much respect and PPE, I've had many disintegrate when getting caught, so for me safety glasses and a visor particularly in thin plate.