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From my point of view there is no place in todays world for this left / right nonsensical and deliberate imo dividing of people around often the most petty of issues in order to distract us en masse from the criminal undertakings of them who would like to own our souls. The covid crime { which may never be over } undoubtedly created massive divisions in society paving the way for even more intrusive deeds to be enacted upon the inhabitants of this world.. 'the climate emergency' alarmist noise being by far the largest threat to all that breath air that's ever been attempted. As I see it, we need to use the experience of the last 3 years to recognise just what's being deliberately done to us as a species physically and psychologically and use this knowledge to allow us to come together, work for the common good throwing our petty differences aside. Do I think this will happen... not a feckin chance👎.

How things have changed in such a short time... for the better? I'm not so sure about that. I am/was proud of our industrial past and all that we achieved, but as they say 'pride goes before a fall' which has never been more apparent than right now, cheers.

I like the way you separated the two questions with great distance... In order to address the cleaning of engine parts to be reassembled.. as an apprentice engineer we used and blew about Trichloro ethylene on a daily basis until it was banned.. now I'm not for 1 minute suggesting that this was wrong. But.. there is no doubt that solvents used safely simply work where the alternative HO2 based products, for the most part, simply don't... So I still use solvents to clean engine parts prior to assembly, blown clean outside to avoid explosive possibilities, and I have no guilt👍 Regarding your first question.. it's thankfully been more than 10 years since I last used tobacco🙄

You're not wrong, I mentioned Gunk to remove @difflock's gunk as a comedic tongue in cheek suggestion based on the original post, it was a fairly decent water soluble degreaser back in the 70's, but I've no doubt that it no longer bears any resemblance to the original formula. Personally I've always used neat petrol and compressed air for cleaning engine parts prior to re-assembly since my early teens and I see no reason to change from a degreasing point of view, although I strongly suspect that petrol is probably far more toxic than it used to be due to the interference of ' science '.

If you use the over size tool with a small circle of plastic builders bag or a wee bit of t shirt to take up the space you might get enough friction to get it to work... not ideal, but I have done this. Once removed the L & H screws can be given a tiny 1/2mm slot using a Dremel avoiding the problem every time you need to adjust, I've done this many times on cheaper Chinky machines that weren't under warranty. They're always going to need tuned after a bit of running from new and occasionally from time to time.

Seems to be a similar product to CT1 at half the price from the same supplier... it's very easy to get stuck in the past and turn a blind eye to innovation only years later finding out that you've missed a trick. I don't know if you've looked at 'Multi solve' another novel ish product cheaply available from the same outlet that also has invaluable properties...cheers.

Looks like a Birch tree to me, and if you don't go any closer it'll be fine.

Well if you've already got stuff on your shelf, a wee dawb on a prepared crack is a no brainer, there are so many innovative newish products out there that many are unaware of, CT1 is completely different to what's gone before... and another great product for a job like this is UV activated plastic repair glue. These things and others should be part of every practical persons tool kit these days, up to date innovations certainly provide a whole plethora of solutions enabling effective repairs in situations that were previously not generally considered possible or worthwhile trying.

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My neighbour has one of these... it runs but sounds rough, doesn't really rev out, has a poor tick over and gasps and bogs in use... it makes me smile when I hear him cursing it.. just what he deserves🤣 When I hear him cutting firewood I like to stop what I'm doing and remind him what a real saw sounds like😈

' unknown ' was written this way to denote sarcasm, 👍

Aye, you're not alone there I've spent half my life working in the wee buggers and enduring that true pestilence certainly pushed me over the edge on many occasions, and while they have been gradually on the decline over the last decades, as in for example compared to as it used to be, walking out of a door into a miserable thickness of them to go to work or do some gardening or sit round the barbie.. they are nowhere near as bad as 30 or 40 years ago.... BUT, even just a few can spoil any outdoor activity !! The thing is that in recent times I've occasionally found myself out gardening in a damp breathless summer evening wearing only shorts and a vest with no need for midgie ointment... previously unheard of, so you have to ask wtf's going on with nature. In the west highlands if the midge disappears by the billion surely that must be akin to plankton vanishing from the sea in terms of ' our fluid environments ' Certainly the midge may be the most noticeable reduction but there are very few moths and other flying bugs compared to yesteryear and of course there are the hundreds of other species that most folk don't notice at all so wouldn't notice a decline. So if the very bottom of the food chain is becoming endangered due to somethings ' unknown ' it should not be unexpected if other species populations start to crash in an exponential fashion.... will anyone notice or care ? Are other folk noticing similar in different areas ? that would be interesting to know, although you'd probably need to be of a certain age at least to be able to judge changes over the decades. Cheers.

I was going to ask the same question as @Stere I've always wondered why so many Cherry trees are grafts and what the reason is particularly as most don't seem to produce any fruit, cheers.

Yep, it's interesting that it's only as you get older and you have a longer overview of the decades gone past that it becomes easy to notice stuff that's going wrong in nature while the younger generations just take today's situation to be ' normal '... which I suppose for them it is. Although it probably varies from place to place the decline over the last 30 years or so of all forms of wildlife in the parts of Scotland that I frequent is simply massive ... whether insects, birds mammals or fish, they're all vanishing... not to mention all the different species of tree that seem to be in trouble.👎

Hi, I haven't had any issue with failing decompressors apart from cleaning them if I have an engine in bits, I have them on a few saws and stonecutters. I'd say for sure that they act as a cord saver and a wrist / finger saver particularly on big saws when a casual attitude to starting can end up with yet another unwelcome strain when the toggle gets ripped out of your hand when you least expect it.

HI, it's unlikely to be dry rot with exposed timbers like that, dry rot requires poorly ventilated highly humid conditions, that looks more like staining from a leaky roof either past or present. Stick a knife into the suspect timber to see if it's soft in any way.

I have 48" Alaskan, a 54" bar would let you use the full width of the mill losing about 6" in mounting the saw, so yes 54" would be the right bar to max out a 48" mill. In practice I've only got got an ms650 for milling atm and the biggest bar for that is 42" Oregon 3/8" which lets me get around a 36" cut or a couple of inches more with the dogs off. When I get an 881🙃 I reckon I'll go 54" / 404. cheers.

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I'm also happy to remove a garden tree here and there locally, they get daylight and I get firewood.. no cash changes hands and everyone's happy. They nearly always drag the brash off for burning and by the time I'm done I'll get a beer at the bonfire. I don't usually get much of a size worth milling but last November I took down a fairly decent Birch about about 18" dbh which produced some nicely figured boards. I think the mentality of folk that do small time opportunist milling is that when we see a tree we see products or building materials as well as firewood and are happy to do a bit of graft to get them free ... as the other thread said it's great to use your own stuff to make fings wiff 👍 Nowhere near Norfolk tho🙂

Yeah I've seen that, but hopefully it will work against them .. they seem to be in some trouble😂

I think most of them are😬

Here ye are, you were right 👍

You may have seen this already as a couple of months ago, I wonder how many of the slimy traitors from both / all parties have the same allegiance ? 👎👎

At least your not trans-sawual😁

They don't hang about, badly bashed ? Was always told that if you don't come off a dirt bike from time to time you're not trying hard enough 🙄 not that that's any consolation ..I have distant memories of a similar kneecap, hope you heal quick👍