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If you can get your hands on MEK, (Methy Ethyl Keytone) it is good for getting rid of or melting most things oil based. Used to use it for getting rid of oil stains from driveways.
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3m do some powered air systems.
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Yippeeee finally looks like it's sorted, so after stripping the fuel system right down, cleaning carb, pull through all the fuel lines, putting a dishwasher cleaning tablet, boiling water and 24 stainless steel bolts in the tank and rattling it about for ten minutes, emptying it leaving it for a week to dry and a final blast with a hairdryer, fitting another new fuel filter, filling with fresh fuel and a Briggs and Stratton fuel stabiliser dose. It works and did a whole hour without cutting out, well that was an epic, flipping too much ethanol in our fuel now!!! causes no end of problems.
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I consider my system to quite simple. I stay in a small cottage with a log burner with back boiler. Above the woodburner in the loft is a 210L twin coil cylinder, one coil fed from the back boiler the other coil from two solar thermal panels. I have a pipe switch on on back boiler return pipe, when the temp reaches 55 deg C I think the pump switches on and pumps it around 5 radiators. Initially the pump is only on for 3 or 4 minutes as a cold slug of water turns the pipe switch off, but as the system gets hotter and hotter the rads are on for longer. The solar coil in the cylinder means I don't need to light the fire on a sunny warm day just to have a shower, it also acts as a pre heat on the not so sunny days.
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Anyone care to offer advice on an off-road forklift?
roys replied to difflock's topic in General chat
Cob logging, I like that, what an unusual yet useful hand made bit of kit. -
Slow cooker, I cook pheasant and goose in slow cooker as well as I am a rubbish cook and have a habit of drying the meat out, but can't go wrong with slow cooker.
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Used Molykote 111 many times, designed for rubber seals, o rings etc. without perishing or swelling them, good stuff.
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Got the Mora and a Hultafor, both very similar knives at similar prices, round about a tenner each may a couple of quid cheaper can't remember and can't complain either, good knives for the price.
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Pulled out and flailed loads of the stuff, only brief mixed emotions as the bees love it, but it's got to go.
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Top carving Simon, like it. Of course I am also bias, as it looks like my dog, although mine isn't a wolfhound.
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Also there is couple of good apps for your phone, easy to take out your phone while out on a walk, put in the bark, leaf, fruit details and probable tree ID appears on screen. I try and ID them first then double check with phone. The main one I use is unsurprisingly called Tree Id and cost a couple of quid.
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Thanks njm will get some fairy in it today, just had a look in the tank and I can see there is a very slight white film at the filler neck on the tank, something has contaminated it for sure.
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Best thing you can do with them, horrible things alive. Noisy, and produce more mess than a dog, so get them on the barbie
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The temp tank
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Couple of pics, one is the temp tank and the other is the carb.
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Took the manifold and carb of today, stripped the carb down to its component parts and cleaned and prodded, put back together. Fastened on a temporary fuel tank and gravity fed straight into carb doing away with my pipe work, pump and manual shut off valve. Cut grass for 45 minutes no probs, yippeeee. So where does that leave me, well I sloshed some petrol about vigorously in my tank and emptied it into a clear plastic bottle and I am convinced there is chalky deposits in it, this has probably contaminated my fuel pump and pipe work, so I will pull through some rag in the pipe work and buy a new pump as they are sealed. What is the best way to clean the inside of the plastic tank?
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Ahhh too many drams and glasses required, that is so weird it looks like a s on my screen with these eyes, anyway move along now, nothing to see here. Sorry chaps
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Like it, nice one.
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Looks good Mike, but excuse my ignorance why is Prix spelt Pris on the right hand side just above 1950?
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Hi miker, vapour lock was actually the first thing I thought about that as the fuel lines are right over the top of the hot valve covers, but I ruled it out after I replaced the fuel filter for a clear one and could see the fuel getting to the carb, also as stated the float chamber was full. I have also replaced all the fuel lines as they were a bit cracked due to the heat. Think from a time gone by British Leyland had that problem on some cars. Interesting about the float chamber being too full njm, will need to look into that a bit more.
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Plastic floats, will get a couple of pics tomorrow, not going to workshop now got a couple of drams in me now
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Hi Geoff, I could be wrong, but I kind of ruled that out because it roared away at full revs with easy start getting sprayed into carb, more than willing to be proved wrong though.
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Tell me more about sticking float or leaking needle valve please, I thought by quickly taking the top of the carb and seeing the float chamber full would prove the needle valve, also there is nowt coming out the wee overflow pipe. What else should I check there please?
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So another day on the dam Briggs and Stratton, B&S won again, new plugs in it same again cut out after 25 minutes or so, quickly took of the top of the carb to check float chamber, it was full. Tried to start it would only go if I tickled the choke would not rev up, checked jets all ok. This time when assembled I blasted easy start into it and it revved up, so it must be petrol, mustn't it? Can't be spark!! Tomorrow I will take carb fully off engine to see if there is a sneaky filter internal or something else I am missing. The saga continues.
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I appreciated your offer of fencing Big J. and you will be first port of call if I ever need fencing or cladding for my Croft, thank you for the offer, just very pleased I could help and that you are now back to full production.
