Mik the Miller

But the costs aren't the same, the costs vary depending upon location and volumetric weight/length. Proportional, it cost me more to send that you you, so you pay more. In reality I bet the majority are in the lower charge bracket and the postage charge only makes up the variance on a median number not taken from the whole but from a range. If it costs £2 to send to location A and £10 to location B and you send 100 items to location A and only 1 item to B then you only have to increase your postage to £2.08 (ie by 8p) to break even. In response to your sending a long bar to the USA via UPS, the answer is simple .... "Sorry we don't sell into the USA, thanks for asking".

"A fullfiment center" ... as in you don't handle your goods at all, they sit on someone elses shelf and their staff pick, pack and dispatch to your customers, on your request and charge you for the privilege ? So basically you have just added a layer of cost which you then profitise and forward on to your customers ? I bet you've outsourced your accounts as well ? Your 'accountant' does your bookeeping, VAT returns and staff wages ? There's comment here that Amazon 'can't be beat'. Amazon operate as a fullfilment center as well as a marketing center. eBay is still a marketing center. The advantage of both of these (from a consumers and resellers point of view) is they offer a huge array of goods to a massive number of people. Up to a point they are good for the reseller too as because they have such a wide outreach, they do force resellers to reduce pricing as competitior pricing is very highly visible. If your 'sprocket' is £9 and mine is £8, i'll sell more. Amazon want you to send them your 'sprockets' and they dish them out as and when they are sold, they hold your money, deduct commission and send you what's left after the fact, and insist you send them replacement stock, for free.. . eBay have have adopted the 'holding on to your money rule' and simply take 12.5% off the top. Unfortunately there are a number of scammers out there, the "it never arrived" or" it was damaged" brigade that I personally think should be shot. These idiots don't win anything, they just put the price up for the rest of us. However, back to the point. £4.95 is too much for the sprocket buyers and not enough for the 36" bar and 2 chain buyers. It's too high for the occasional user/hobbyist/wood gatherer. Commercially it's a different kettle. I guess my point is that if it's obvious that the seller is layering profit on profit then they can Foxtrot Oscar.

2 caniballs eating a clown ... One says to the other ...... "Does this taste funny to you ?" What’s a cannibals favourite takeaway shop The orphanage Cannibal (n.) Someone who is fed up with people.

@Rob D It's about being proportionate IMO. Charging a flat rate (say £5) for a filler cap or a rim sprocket v a 36" bar and chain, the fuel cap/sprocket guy will be pissed off (or is it just me ?) and go elsewhere. My solenoid went on my winch the other day and 1 company wanted £55 + £15 shipping + vat I paid another supplier £70 all in (with next day TNT) and I could have bought the same item on eBay for £59 all in, but had to wait for the 3 to 5 day inclusive shipping. As it was the item took 2 days to come rather than the 'next-day' but the £10, up to 2kgs next-day shipping I felt was worth it. In reality the eBay seller sold for £48 inc vat (less 12.5% fees and £4.50 shipping) so in reality less than 1/2 the price of the other 'sellers'. Back too the fuel cap, I just bought a genuine Stihl cap, off eBay, which arrived in 2 days with a 2nd large stamp and almost 33% less than a well known supplier/retailer. My question (in these examples) is how can they (eBay sellers) do that ? All I can think of is that the resellers are demanding significantly higher profit ? Do that to me once or twice and i'm not coming back, if it's an obvious rip (item £2.60 shipping £8)... then it's a 'No' before the starting pistol has fired. If it's a 16" bar and chain (£42) and £8 shipping or some other largeish (up to 5kgs) items, then thats fine. If it's over 10/15kgs or longer than 1M then the shipping will be £10 to £12, that fine too. Shetland costs more, so do other remote locations, the islanders know that. If you're going to charge me more than the retail cost of a 2nd class stamp to sent me a rim sprocket then i'll get my replacement chains and bars from A N Other. I agree with @GarethM too, "I hate companies that only add the postage at the very end", postage prices up front rather than after we've opened an account, been sent a 'code' to our phone and put in what colour socks we wear on a tuesday ...

They are quite low power. Less dangerous than a micrwave. To be safe i'd stay around 4 to 6 feet away. You should put tin foil down your underpants too and line your safety helmet. To be really, really. really safe don't lick them 😎 There is a personal safety meter, I use one when working on RF transmitters etc. and there are quidelines for HSE and risk assesments. It's a minefield. I have difficulty getting my meter to 'sound off' when walking past a GSM antenna. https://www.tklink.co.uk/products/railway-specific-products/gauge/nardalert-s3-personal-monitor-s3/

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smieop peicreat humute baxboms, that amazing, I feel so lucky now. I didn't know it would understand Cravonichkian.

Difficult to tell if they have gone but thier accounts for 2021 show a loss of £771K, and debts of £2.5Mill £1.75Mill they owe to themselves *FR Jones and Son (Holdings) Limited, who also posted a loss of £82K. Their accounts for year ending Dec 2022 are due until Sept 2023. They could have gone 'poof' which is why ChainsawBars is advertising like a cat on a hot tin roof ... ? They could be just 'restructuring'. They may rise from the ashes as 'JR and E Jones Limited' ?

Pistons in back to front ...

Probably, it is a Husqvarna 😁

Not English as a first language that's for sure.

I have a sneaky feeling it takes a bit more than an extra hole or two in the exhaust and a wee twiddle of the mixture screws to get more power from a 121cc stroker

Yes, best not to die with more than £325,000.00 in assets and cash. You can give away £3000 a year to anyone you choose in the 7 years before you die ... tax free You can give away/gift any amount 7 years before your death ... tax free Keep records... I am not a tax lawyer but have recently suffered from parents death.

Then you need to go and live in a bankrupt country. Sudan perhaps, any of the middle or Western Africa nations. Perhaps somewhere less dangerous like Argentina, Lebanon maybe, i'm sure that paying no tax will bring you great personal joy and benefit 😁

16" is max IMO

It's weird being the same age as old people.

Newspaper, twigs, sticks and 2" square logs (affectionatly called number two's) with a couple of logs on top. Lit with a match. Open primary and secondary air, shut the door and get a cuppa. 20 mins later close it down to a simmer. I worries me putting combustable hydrocarbon in a closed box ...

@Ontario Firewood Resource there is a lot said about Tesla in your video that isn't correct. He didn't figure out/invent AC, he studied it at school.... Alternating current was developed in principle by Michael Faraday and in practice by Hippolyte Pixii in the early 19th century. Practical devices employing AC in the medical world were developed before Tesla was even born. Contemporaries of Tesla working for George Westinghouse developed practical methods of distributing AC power from power plants before Tesla came to work for Westinghouse. Tesla himself actually studied the use of AC in college When working for Westinghouse he led a partnership with GM to install the AC generators @ Niagra Falls, creating the first modern power station.

Excellent solution... i'd have gone for a thicker plate, if you run the stove at full chat the chequer plate may not last more than 1 season. Well done HOP Engineering ...

Is this the M-Tronic version ? If it is, apply choke and chain brake start the saw and leave it running (brake on) for around 30 seconds, don't touch the throttle, then take off the brake, squeeze the trigger (to full throttle) and hold it running flat out for another 30 seconds (you will hear the saw change note a couple of times), when the engine speed drops noticeably, release the throttle and wait for the engine speed to get back to a normal idle. Switch off the saw and it's done. This causes the 'electonics' to reset.

My new (eco Stovax) stove is the same. I went from a cast iron box with a grate to a large glass doored, brick lined, designed steel box with secondary airwash and tertiary air thats much more efficient and fills the room with smoke and ash at every oppertunity. I think these new stoves are designed by bright young university graduates with no experience or real clue on the practticality of how a fire actually works. I've had two seasons and i'm just getting used to it now but compared to the old stove it's a bitch to light and (like yours) smokes. My issue is not only is there a small gap for the smoke to evacuate but also the door goes to within 15mm of the top, so you open the door and the room fills with fine particles of ash. Topping up is a no-no, you basically have to wait until all the fuel has been used before adding more. The old stove had a good 75mm 'lip' above the doors with air baffles at the top and below the grate, you could also leave the door slightly ajar to get the stove roaring, this new design may be more efficient but in practical usage it's crap.

Brilliant ....