Mik the Miller

Thank you for your advice..

New Titanikel HYWAY piston and cylinder arrived today, qlong with new gaskets etc. The supplied exhaust gasket has a smaller hole than the port. Other than that would the new piston/pot need anything doing to improve performance ?

The numbers 1756, MP (in a box) and ITALY on the other side.

There is a 'W 15' on the top (dots) 'B' on the center left and an arrow pointing right with 4 dots above and below the shaft. Yes it's clean as I'd attacked it with a brass brush and it's been in my pocket for a few days. Both circlips were there, they had tangs. One side was bent back on itself. So the bloke who sold it to me lied then .... One quick question, how do I get the decompressor out ? A very thin wall 13mm socket ?

I've bought the Hyway, new gaskets and a gudgeon bearing. I agree, for £35 for a piston/ring/cylinder set, how good is it ? Here's the photo's. It looks like the rings gave way and chewed everything up, no idea why, it's all OEM. I think its a 2007 so I guess thats not bad, doesn't have a hard life, my 880 gets used a lot more and I tend to use it with a smallish blade (20") Needs a bit of polish that ....

My old 660 died that week, wouldn't start, seemed to be low in compression. To be fair it's not been right for a while and I should have looked at it earlier (rather then just when I needed it...). I took the exhaust off and it looks like the rings have given way. The piston and bore is well scored, past repair. What should I buy ? Is there any advantage in getting one of these 'big bore' kits ? The Hyway for example Or a standard 54mm set from Meteor ? The lower cost Nikasil/unbranded versions ?

Thats what I did in the end as I needed to get the heat back on. Still no sign of the 'official' set. I don't get the tertiary air with the set I made up but I won't buy side pieces from Stovax ever again, apart from anything else the stuff I bought from eBay seems more robust (might be just me ...).

I bought a Stovax to replace my old cast-iron stove It was a mistake. Stovax look nice, they have a big window so you can see the firebox etc but they push smoke into the room as soon as you open the door. The ropes/seals are made from flimmsium, the firebrick too is soft and fragile. I ordered a new set of bricks last May and they are still not available. Customer service is pityfull. The cast iron top sits on the steel firebox, it isn't fastened by anything other than gravity. An expensive (to buy) stove made with cheap low cost materials. Awful, awful awful.

Because a 500 is 39 better than a 461 and a whole 138 better than a 362. ...

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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