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I see you've edited you're error, so I didn't get it wrong😁 ...although it will look like that now.

Ok , thought you'd got vids on you tube, guess I read it wrong

Put a link then 🙃

You're not wrong there, it's worth remembering that the Chinese were an advanced culture with their metal working, architecture, medicine etc a couple of thousand years ago when we were running around naked covered in blue paint The idea that civilisations are cyclical and go back much much further than we are led to believe is something that's being recognised and increasingly accepted by a small but growing school of thinking who are able to accept a bigger picture than that which we've traditionally been taught....oops, wrong thread... Anyway, just bought a 1/2" AF King Dick spanner, made in Birmingham since 1856 to go with the ' made in China ' bolt on magnetic plate recently acquired for my Alaskan from the good old US of A.... how totally global am I without even leaving my chair ? 😁

You've heard wrong....Vanishes exponentially like everything else.

Always done the same, there was a massive buy British campaign when I was young...back then with many things it was still possible to do and get quality with the opposition being ' made in Taiwan or japan ' pre China.... but frankly even then Japan was leaving us for dead. Today, when I need buy anything and look for it to be actually ' made in Britain ' and not just branded as such, based on my old fashioned loyalty / patriotism I'm usually unable to find what I'm looking for.. albeit, sometimes in certain specialist areas we are still on par with those that lead the world. Many of the tools I use every day have lasted my whole life so far, and many of these were s/h to me and previously had a whole another life with someone else which only increases there value to me.... So I'm more disappointed than anything else that GB's world leading engineering heritage has been thrown out by successive mindless and self destructive political regimes which have stripped the innovative life and spirit out of this country's heritage in favour of easy and dishonest greed, and have long since sold out our children's future..

Jeez, I knew there were differences but I never realised there were so many👍

I first bought a cheap Chinese battery saw 12" bar 3/8 chain [ Greenworks ] £110 ish maybe 5 or 6 years ago out of curiosity.. low chain speed but pulled relentlessly and felled / blocked many tons of firewood quite slowly and quietly... benefited greatly from a Stihl full chiz chain, had to be real careful with the poor quality of the adjustable bits but still as useable a toy today as when I bought it. A couple of years ago I bought The Stihl msa 200....didn't like the picco micro chain and converted it to 220 spec 3/8 full chiz... bloody great, 24 ms, for anything small or any garden job it's my go to saw 👍 With a 14" bar it also bores better than you might expect and on the odd occasion that I get to drop a large tree with an audience, I have to admit that I kinda revel in doing it with the little battery Stihl pushed to it's limits, when before I might have made a show of a big noisy brute... it's funny to see the disbelief in their faces when the tree drops with a total lack of bluster, and hopefully you can go on to sned it as much as possible before the battery dies.. always got a 'real' saw warmed up as a backup obviously. So don't be shy of buying the best you can afford and although these saws are really garden / firewood tools you won't regret it if that's what you do imo. cheers.

No brainer for you if you've already got the batteries and your only doing a little firewood, a mate of mines got the 36v Makita and it's fine for your purposes. cheers.

Nice pair of trousers there mate😄

Yep, on very small items and particularly pot metal like carb material much care is needed not to melt the item your trying to repair.. previous experience of welding / brazing / soldering with oxy acetylene is definitely a big help even although for most of these small repairs you can get away with using a plumbers blowtorch. Filling a hole like the problem the OP has is possibly the easiest application of this stuff but it's worth saying that the melted in material from the HTS rod is quite a bit harder than the original alloy so extra care is needed when drilling and tapping small repairs to avoid unexpected tool breakages. I think that the main reason for lack of flow when doing any alloy weld / solder operations is a combination of surface contamination with oils, ie not even a fingerprint... oxidisation and minute ferrous particles hence the SS wire brush, cheers.

It is easy Kriss, next time you need to repair something non ferrous give it a go.. all you need is a few basic tools a blowtorch and a stainless wire brush 👍

Good old JB weld would be perfect if This route was taken

Hi, If this is into Mag alloy it could be a perfect candidate for a HTS 2000 repair without taking the engine apart. I know this method has been rubbished on here before but totally wrongly imo, since finding this method a good few years ago I've managed to save many things that would have previously been unrepairable and scrap... it for sure works on magnesium alloy castings And to the OP... it's readily available on ebay and if you thought it worth a go... cleanliness and following the instructions to the T is the key to a possible easy fix, any questions, just ask. cheers.

Ok, I can see how that might work for homeowner advice questions if there are definitive answers, but it might get very confusing if there are multiple opinions or the correct answer is unpopular.....but that never happens😁

I also didn't have a clue wot that's all about... who decides what's most applicable, is it the number of votes up or down that determines the credibility of the answer then?

Me too, I've often wondered what some of the overgrown garden ' Cedar-ish ' type trees actually are, often got strong contrasting colours when split and had grown into monsters planted in the totally wrong place.... likely sold in garden centres as ' dwarf '

Yep I'm sure that's what it is, thanks.

When the trees were standing that was my guess and when I milled it and saw the colour I thought the same but it's just that other cedar I've milled in the area smelled more like aftershave. I've got some other stuff to mill that if I only touch with the saw I get the strong smell of Cedar even although it's been lying so long that the sapwood's mush. But as you pointed out WRC is really a Cypress I guess maybe that explains the difference in smell....I just find the ID of these type of trees difficult as there seem to be so many variations on a theme. Thanks.

Yep, looking at my pics again I don't think it's Leylandii, too reddish.... can anyone suggest a more likely ID, cheers. It had / has an unpleasant acrid smell if that helps.

I milled two of them recently, or at least that's what I thought it was most likely to be, I'm not good at identifying the various types of these trees.... They had been stand alone trees in a garden and they'd had lower branches removed as they'd grown to give a view from the house, they were headed for the firewood pile but I managed to rescue them and was pleasantly surprised with the colour and figuring and got some very nice boards, so it will probably end up as garden furniture as it's fairly durable.

If you can view it from a distance and it has some space to the side, simply take a stick, stand a distance away from the tree, whilst looking at the tree hold the stick in your field of vision till it matches the height of the tree then tip the stick over as if the tree was being felled, note the point on the ground where the top of the stick ends up and pace it out 👍 no idea about apps if that's what you need, sorry.

Thanks, by some miracle I've long since seasoned my main hardwood firewood reserve stack in three rows 4 ft deep, 4 ft high in a space 24 ft long for which I had a 1 off top tarp made specially for. So exactly 3 cords of tightly stacked 12 /14% ish mc mixed hardwood for the proverbial rainy day..... I'd always wondered exactly what a ' cord ' was but it would seem that I knew all along 😄

Could've done you a threesome last year, my neighbour trapped a big male and 2 females [ live ] that were at his hens... there's no shortage of them up here 👍

There's an antique dealer by the name of Robin B'astard