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If you don't take off the methanol before collecting the ethanol you could go blind...that's where experience is important, the cure for methanol poisoning is ethanol or any kind of alcohol spirit administered quickly, I bet that would be some hangover🤪 I remember back in the 70's I think, a group of guys on a North sea rig made some kind of hooch and went blind after drinking it..

Yes and it's caused immeasurable damage and expense. I'm not going to read through this whole thread and apologies in advance if it's already been mentioned but... I find fuel stabilisers work well and I've been keeping my small engines safe using it for around 10 years and also trying to get the message out to others... particularly if they expect me to continue repairing their equipment. Yes, Aspen's great but who could afford to use it in an expensive gas guzzling engine like a bike, an outboard or a car where this fuel causes the same damage. This will treat 300 litres of fuel for £9 B3C Fuel Stabiliser 'Ethanol Shield' 236ml | Fuel Stabiliser Additive | Mower Magic WWW.MOWERMAGIC.CO.UK PREVENT future engine problems with Ethanol Shield. This year round fuel stabiliser is suitable for power equipment...

Hi, not sure what's going on with you but it seems that you got probs trying to find a space.... I'd just like to say that I enjoy you're input, you're insight, you're experience and you're willingness to share.... and I wish you good luck, cheers.

I''ve at TU35, it's a beast when needed... but adding extra leverage enables you to push any mechanism beyond it's design limits👍

Yep , I was doing some landscaping for a client when he called me into the house to watch it as it unfolded... I'm older and very very much has changed since then ! cheers.

Yeah, I'm sure it could be done a few ways but I've no experience of what the difference might be like. If it was something you wanted to try a couple of inches of rail protruding backwards towards the saw would be ideal to mount a 1 off roller alternative, I'd imagine the more the diameter of the wheels the bigger the advantage. But on the other hand I don't see why you couldn't just modify the existing skid by welding on a bush to accept an 8mm bolt giving you a simple bolt on alternative when you feel you need it and at the same time you could / would beef up the Panther skid which looks a bit puny compared to the Alaskan, cheers 👍

Hi, I searched the interweb some years ago for the same profile extrusion as the Alaskan and found nothing out of hundreds of designs to let me to do a cheap length extension... but I notice that the Panther uses a universal common easily available profile which as far as I can see would do for the Alaskan parts in which case technically as the bolt positions wear you could use any of the other 3 slotted sides to extend the life of the rails. Not only that but you could decide to have them any lengthy you like. I agree with you that the ' good old USA ' engineering is a bit rough n ready and when one of my clamps recently snapped I was disappointed to see what looked like a quality alloy casting snapped like a biscuit, easy to fix with a weld and an extra welded brace... but I bought the ' improved ' clamps anyway, which I don't expect to be a problem but they do leave the top of the u bolt very near the oil tank and lose you 1/2" plus in clearance. On putting my mill back together I did some careful measurements and found the increment markings to be pretty accurate but I'd be willing to believe that that may not always be the case. As far as the skids are concerned I remembered that when I bought my mill there was a wheels kit available to take the place of the skids to reduce interference and friction on knarly stuff, don't know if this or the concept of this would help anyone with either mill, cheers. Roller Brackets | Granberg International GRANBERG.COM

Jeez, these have fairly gone up in price since I used to repair bikes... I seem to remember them being a fiver😄

Yes, I figured out that was likely how it worked but I think the pin on mine may be slightly bent ... I didn't want to force it not being 100% sure of it's operation. I'll have another go tomorrow, I've been looking for a longer rope for quite a while and I see from the pdf the standard length was 20m. Tractel seem to do 10, 20 and 30m lengths with the later being over £300 which I couldn't really justify although it would save a lot of repetitive taking up slack, cheers.

Thanks for that 👍

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Yeah Stubby, I know the pain... when I first got mine it was similar, I striped it down found nothing obvious, cleaned and greased it and put it back together and it was improved but why ? I think the most important part of using it is to make sure that the cable doesn't drag in any shit as the cable tolerances are very tight. With green paint, mine is prob ex army and by the look of it 40+ years old with very little use, but as I think it has a second gear for quickly taking up slack which is jammed, I tried to download a manual and to top it all somewhat unbelievably by doing this I got a deeply embedded computer virus which cost me a lot. So does anyone know if an old TU35 has a second gear, cheers.

Hi, I use a TU 35 [ occasionally ] which I have pulled a 5 ton [ estimated ] boulder about 30 yards with the Tractel wire rope, wire rope slings and chains... it was at it's limit, I don't think that the handle was anywhere near long enough and watching your video has given me PTSD😄 I don't think that the Tractel rope stretches hardly at all and if a chain slips it's very undramatic.. but it's also very eye opening just how much even large pp ropes and strops stretch before you get any movement of what your trying to shift. That wee version looks very handy from my point of view .. and for a Tirfor what you need is a cable long enough that you do as few resets as possible or you just wear yourself out taking up slack.... But there's no better tool when needed.

I know some will like this,

Exactly, although I'd change sometimes to often 👍

As a long term user of this stuff I can say that it has definitely helped protect my machinery from the effects of ethanol damage that I see every day in all the other engines that I repair.. in fact the combined costs due to ethanol globally must be truly enormous cancelling any box ticking green agenda piss. Although I'm not so sure about it protecting against E85.... B3C Ethanol Shield Fuel Stabiliser 118ml - Treats up to 150L WEIBANG.UK.COM PREVENT future engine problems with Ethanol ShieldSUITABLE for power equipment with either 2 or...

I don't understand your comment, how else would you cut stone ? it's just a chainsaw with a different cutting tool. Mine gets used every other day and I'm very grateful for it's existence. If I had to guess I'd imagine you get asked to fix endless TS 400's owned and completely fecked by mechanically inept and clueless builders.. in which case I sympathise and totally agree with you. 😁

A band saw Alaskan WTF not.. good stuff, go for it mate, as for your age... I'm jealous 👍

Glad you've got it figured out, cheers.

I guess that's wot I was saying... 👍

Suppose you'd have to buy it to try it..... If you want to get into milling I'd go for the Alaskan or the chinky copy which gets a reasonable crit and is probably cheaper, cheers.

I've found similar and like you put it down to a very hot engine ceasing to be cooled by the flywheel when stopped and the air pressure in the tank being increased by the temp rise forcing oil through...very annoying when it makes a right mess of a previously clean surface 👍 The tank vent seems to let air in but not out so when that happens to fail a lot of oil can be lost out of it when using the saw tilted well over... as you do, and on my ' older ' Stihl models the vent overflows into the same area behind the clutch, drips out under the sprocket and had me flummoxed for a while.

Me too, a capable inbetweener, solid but portable and a good price when I got mine 👍

Yeah, If push comes to shove I'll do a 150 mile trip.. often the cheapest as well 👍

Yep same, can't get any cement up here.