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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.
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Glad I was able to help, it was also a pleasure meeting your good self, well impressed with your set up and the work you are doing.
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Yip no probs, don't think I will bring anything new to the party but you never know, can you message me your location and contact details.
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Motors are started in star so that they draw current less current on start up. Does sound like the electronics side of things, by the results you are getting. Big J if you want me to cast a 2nd pair of eyes over it, I don't mind looking but it sounds like you have done a good set of checks, I do have a multimeter, insulation tester, and clamp on amp meter. I am out Glasgow way until Thursday. Just let me know if you want me to pop by.
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Looks good
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No bother for me to cut a bit, turn it out and send it to you if you want, I have a couple of hours spare this weekend, just say the word.
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If you are in SW Scotland, bring in round and I will put it in the lathe for you, metal cutting lathe but will still do the job, did something very similar to make a red squirrel feeder.
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£300 sounds a bit on the steep side to me as well. Get the local handy man in. Location? If it is London then £300 might not be steep.
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Not sure about going rate, I am fairly certain a handy man and a mate could put it up in a couple of hours. So what ever the hourly rate is for a handy man in that area and multiply hourly rate by say 3. For my garden shed I put a base of slabs down and then 2 pressure treated fence posts lying down as bearers for the shed base to sit on. Hopefully stop any water that sits on slabs from rotting the shed, maybe need to change the bearers in a few years, but that should be a 5 minute job, lever up one end of shed slide rotten bearer out slide new one in, hopefully.
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I've just had another one of those time wasters who bid and won some stuff from me last Thursday, hasn't paid, and not responding to any contact including texts as his mobile which was on his contact details. Why do they do that, tossers.
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No nothing fancy like that on it.
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Dam you Briggs and Stratton, wasted so many hours on the engine this weekend,no stripped down the carb again, cleaned all the jets, changed fuel filter, cleaned out tank, still same fault. So cleaned carb again, did away with pump, filter, tank, by rigging up a temporary tank gravity feeding into carb, same fault. Next step, change the two spark plugs. It just sounds like fuel related but surely I have eliminated that now. So plug change it is. Dam dam dam
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All done now Mike, very heavy 70 kg
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Good quality stuff, bought a couple of things from Mike a couple of weeks ago, well pleased.
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Just back from the woods, all the cut stuff burnt now. Did think about lighting fire at stumps but worried about peat fires at that area as it is a bit dryer than the burn sight I picked, the burn site was in a bit of a wet hollow. I did treat the cut stumps by drilling and injecting glyphosate and spraying glyphosate on the bits that were too small to drill.
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Never seen a mulcher in use so not sure, would a mulcher not leave all the chopped arising just on the deck, is that OK with rhody, excuse my ignorance here but I just don't know. Access is also a pain, I can get an ATV down there, but it is tight and a bit boggy in places. Cheers.
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And finally, look at the dam stuff
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Have to post pics separately and in reverse order sorry.
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Just as a bit of an update, so at the end of March a few of my friends came down and we cleared tons of the dam stuff but in the grand scheme of things we only scratched the surface, we probably cleared about a 30 m by 20 m strip of 10 feet tall rhody. I have left it since then to dry out a bit, probably about 30 piles of the stuff. Today I put 6 sheets of wiggly tin down, and had a bit of fire, it burnt incredibly well burning down as fast as two of us could feed it, fed it for 7 hours and we are about 60% through the piles, so same again tomorrow, will take just as long as there is a bit further to drag it to the fire.
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That's a good idea, take it you mean threading the sling through the scaffie tube?
