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The yanks refer to it as "bean oil". Still available but always was potentially disastrous in strokers in the wet as the oil reacted badly with water and would stick the throttles open, more than a few people killed because of it. So Castrol formulated A747 for two strokes, enough castor to prevent seizures, but much more user friendly and no sticking throttles. Also still available and until recently pretty much the go to oil for classic racing two strokes.

Just to complicate things a bit further. First alkylate fuel I used was the Husqvarna one, simply because I was at my nearest Kubota dealer getting a few service parts and they had it on the shelf. Next I got was Aspen, again simply because I happened to be in a different dealership and they had it. I'm pretty sure that all the stuff I'm using it in runs slightly better on the Aspen, so much so that I'll be buying it specifically from now on even though I could get the Husqvarna one cheaper. I know that's not reflected by peoples experiences on here, all I've been able to rationalise is that everything I use it in is old school carburettor, even the new stuff, and maybe Aspen is designed to perform better across a broader range of equipment. Haven't used the Stihl stuff as the local Stihl dealership is pants. *edit* - forgot to add, and more relevant to the thread title, as I move more things over to alkylate I'll probably go to Aspen 4 and just add oil to make things simpler.

Apology willingly accepted. 🙂 Normally it wouldn't matter so much but in this particular case both sentences had to be taken together to articulate my view accurately.

Pity you left out this bit. Selective quoting is taking a part of what a person says and using it in isolation to portray an entirely different meaning to the message they were initially conveying. You don't work for the BBC or some other mainstream organisation do you?

Going to be really interesting to see how this plays out as Musk is going to have to ride two horses here, and that seldom ends well. He's part of the establishment, he didn't get to be the richest man in the world by being anything else. "Green agenda", "new world order", "build back better", deals with the Chinese, etc, etc, he ticks all those boxes and more, the epitome of the modern day "globalist". Yet here he is now owning and threatening to shake up one of the establishments main propaganda tools. Is he really going to do what people are expecting and allow the 'progressive' agenda to be challenged, even sometimes exposed for what it is? The thing is, we will see the headlines of some of the big companies as they make a big visual out of withdrawing their twitter funding (they call it "advertising"!), but you can be darned sure there'll be a lot of big money pulled out of twitter which we'll never know about because we were never supposed to know about it being there in the first place! Given the false nature of so much of today's 'wealth', will he be able to hack it, or is he actually a wolf in sheep's clothing who has pulled a master stroke to simply tighten his grip over the society that he claims he wants to liberate. Let's see.

Man alive is that a feckin' understatement!

Equally true. I'm just not a 'blocker' by nature.

Fair point, that's how I read it too.

Democracy - not always a good thing!

Only saying it as I see it. Racism, sexism, ageism, sectarianism, etc, etc, none of them are a one way street.

I would usually find it hard to consider such an aggressive, insulting, and personal attack on anyone, as being in any way acceptable, no matter who the target may be. For Ms Abbot I have no trouble making an exception. A dyed in the wool racist, and only put in power for that very reason.

Oh sorry, I thought you meant the fiver was only worth £2:50.

I thought that was all Putin's fault for invading the Ukraine.

Not much reason to flee Albania though it would seem. /assets/static/govuk-opengraph-image-dade2dad5775023b0568381c4c074b86318194edb36d3d68df721eea7deeac4b.png Safety and security - Albania travel advice - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Latest FCDO travel advice for Albania including on entry requirements, safety and security and local laws and...

I've a 13 tooth blade for the Gomtaro which I keep for trimming/grafting fruit trees. Actually, since I posted the thread I've been looking at a few youtube videos of it and it isn't actually that small. Seems like if you wanted something to carry in your pocket, it would be (not surprisingly I suppose!) the 130mm "Pocketboy", but it's a pricey little bugger and probably couldn't cut anything more than you could nip off with a brush hook anyway. The 170 Pocketboy looks a good bit more useful and isn't much dearer than the 130 but then you might as well have the F180 which originally caught my eye. Might just stay with the fixed blade stuff, seems simpler!

I don't think it's just a UK issue to be honest. The capitalists want a homogenous global society so they can take whatever they want from wherever they want to take it, and sell whatever they want to wherever they want to sell it. Think that's ridiculous, well increasingly it isn't. Anywhere there's precious metals or any resource of any value, they're there already. Destroying, pillaging, exploiting, lining the pockets of either a few sadistic 'politicians', or warlords, to keep the natives subdued and working to serve them. National identity or any sense of loyalty to your home nation is the greatest threat there is to their ambitions, therefore they are gradually eroding it away any way they can, aided and abetted ironically by the representatives who these same people vote for when given the chance. Or was that a dream/nightmare I had last night? Getting old is a bugger!

Ordering up a few bits and pieces in preparation for my cutting season to start and the above saw has caught my eye, not because of the price but because it looks thin and handy. It wouldn't be cutting an awful lot, I've the fixed blade ones for that, but I'd want it to cut like any other Silky when I was using it. I'd hope the cost saving is made simply by the handle and all not being as fancy, but if it's just silky branded tat then I wouldn't bother. Any feedback on them gratefully received.

Truth be told you won't go far wrong with whatever Silky you use. I prefer the Natanoko as when I was an apprentice I spent an entire week at a bench vice with little blocks of metal doing nothing other than learning how to use a hacksaw properly, i.e perfectly straight level strokes, no rocking permitted! Therefore the straight blade just feels more precise and I keep the Zubat for higher up stuff, but that's just me. One word of warning though, and it's already been said but worth repeating, show the blade a huge amount of respect. You'll probably nick yourself at some point anyway, but if you're being careful you'll keep the consequences to a piece of gauze and a band aid, if not it'll be steri strip or even stitches very easily. Enjoy your harvesting.

Well to be serious again. One of the most inconvenient and uncomfortable truths for those against taking more robust action, is that by doing nothing the government itself and all the 'aid' agencies involved are actively supporting the growth of one of the most vile, grotesque, and despicable activities in existence, namely people trafficking. This fact should be thrown back much more often in the faces of the bleeding heart types who whinge and moan every time there's a suggestion of clamping down on what is going on.

Little point in teaching them to swim when they've already made it across the channel!

Luxury hotels don't come cheap.

It's also asylum "applicants" and takes no account of those who have not yet entered the system, or more worryingly, those who have no intention of entering the system. Actually just another lame attempt to deflect from the problem. You can also be pretty sure that those responsible for such a transparent attempt to portray the problem in a different light don't think that they'll ever be negatively impacted by what's happening, a bit like those at the BBC. Dishonest and stupid!

Not much incentive for the horticulture industry when the produce has to be dumped. Farmer gives away blueberries worth millions of pounds WWW.BBC.CO.UK A Perthshire farmer says it no longer makes economic sense to harvest the fruit, which will now go to charity. Something like this shouldn't be happening. Given that it's the BBC there's no proper explanation for why it's happening, and I'd be wary of taking what they say at face value anyway, but plainly there is a big problem here.

I just despair that anyone watches that shite, no matter who's on it. I'd rather have a tooth pulled with no anaesthetic, at least it's over quickly.

So here we have another example, look at the headline. Minister warns on language after Suella Braverman 'invasion' comment WWW.BBC.CO.UK Robert Jenrick's comments come after the home secretary described the situation as an "invasion". So firstly, he didn't "warn" on anything, and the (very brief) comment he did make on the word "invasion" was only made after repeated hassling and frequent interruptions by the interviewer along that specific line. When you actually listen to the interview, Mr Jenrick was 100% in support of the Home Secretary and the rest of the interview was spent reaffirming that it is a huge problem, any measures taken so far have been entirely inadequate, and it's time for more robust action. This is plainly yet another attempt by the state broadcaster* to influence peoples thinking and perception in a particular way rather than simply report "news". It should bother any right minded person for that reason alone. * - edited for clarity