and today i have mostly been...

[steve_earwig]

I had to Google GY6 but I see they're rather ubiquitous

My nephew was using a leaf blower to power his scooter when he was 12, he'll be 18 this year but I suspect he'll have his pilot's license before his car one...

[lozz]

[quote="steve_earwig"]I had to Google GY6 but I see they're rather ubiquitous

theyre using them in old wheel chairs now.ffs
these young hippy's must be bored..but it does look fun..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy5rkw4SeP4

[steve_earwig]

It does indeed Making of here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... xqyKwJYbFJ

That bloke's a nutter...

[lozz]

yeah he sure is a nutter, perhaps hes had too many 'magic Mushrooms,

some of his video's are good.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZCk7tMOYc

[steve_earwig]

I've been surfing them, ta Lozz, I just showed the wife the pulse jet powered kettle - hilarious!

[lozz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8gvgISVHak

[steve_earwig]

A few pics

Max with 076 AV + 36" bar

Kind of makes Max look like a Hobbit but he's 6'2"


We put the 20" bar on the other 076. We still didn't get a chance to run them (weather, religious holiday, wife etc.) but tomorrow will be the day (I said that last week...)



With the Homelite:

Awwww, don't it look tidgy!

It is indeed massive, I think it must be the biggest chainsaw I've ever seen that wasn't mounted on a tractor or something. Preposterous.

I've been investigatering chainsaws, from what I've seen on various arboreal sites Stihl have gone right down hill and Husqvarna are the ones to go for. Or I could buy something second-hand here and risk buying a poorly maintained derelict that'll I'll have to rebuild.

Meanwhile today the carb rebuild kit turned up for the Homelite tiller and it's running now. It's as weak as piss though, light sandy soil yes, heavy clay soil with stones (like what we have here) no chance. It either bounces up and down or just dies. It might be more powerful with the right air filter when it turns up (it's sporting one of my dad's finest bodges just now) but I somehow doubt it. It'll do the flower beds anyway, I'll just have to dig them over first.

[Welly]

The tiller might benefit from some Octane Booster added to whatever excuse for 'petrol' you're getting there at the moment? a proper filter will be good, my mower's filter got half-soaked in oil and I was surprised at the effect it had.

[steve_earwig]

That's a point, I'd assumed these things aren't sports cars but it must be worth trying. I'm not sure if I want to add octane booster to everything that's not running perfectly (that'll be everything then) but it must be worth trying it to prove a point.

I've managed to get the right filter elephant for it but the filter box is missing it's lid. What my dad's done is stick a bit of sheet steel over it with half a dozen 3mm holes in it, I've no idea how much air it's meant to get but overfuelling on full power might explain it's feebleness. Can't remember it smoking though...

B&S engines seem particularly good at filling the filter with oil if you tip them up at all, so cleaning off the bottom of a mower can be a pain in the bum. The oil travels up the crank case breather pipe and tips straight into the carb, so if it doesn't soak into the filter it chucks a load of oil into the cylinder so it smokes like buggery next time you start it (right or left, although I suspect if you tip it to the left the oil stays in the pipe ready for the next time you start it, whereupon the vacuum sucks it into the carb). B&S are pretty good otherwise (carb diaphragms aside), I've got one here that came off a friend's lawnmower, it's crank seal has been leaking for years so it's spent a lot of time with very little oil in it, it has almost no compression but, before the mower it was attached to rotted away, it still chugged along merrily.


I've just been shopping (largely because everything I wanted to use was put back in the cupboard empty ) and for the first time I had someone buttonhole me to ask what the RAV was like, it was some old boy in an old Aldi that parked up behind me. So I told him how much I like* it. I don't suppose he'll be buying one of those now

[Welly]

Nice 'review' for him then

My B&S will either poor oil into the eggsauce (somehow) or piss petrol out the other so tipping it up is no good. I looked at changing the oil this season but when I saw the price I thought FRO and topped the thing up with Volvo engine oil. I tend to run it on Super Unleaded and find it much happier. I've modified the throttle on mine with a twist-tie so it runs quite fast as soon as it fires up....poor old thing, it won't die though.

[steve_earwig]

Oil > vent > carb > cylinder > exhaust I reckon.

I've just heard from Max, it appears he was bored this morning so the big Stihl is now running. And apparently he has a buyer for it

[steve_earwig]

Both Stihls are up and running Starting them seems a bit of a technique but once we figured out they need to idled for 30 seconds or so before you rev them they're good to go (they're both the same too)

I've uploadermerated a couple of vids to Bloatophucket ('cos I never did that before)

36"
http://vid222.photobucket.com/albums/dd ... xnz6hb.mp4

20" (this one's extremely loud, the exhaust seems to be missing a few baffles but it's not that much louder than the other irl.)

Really f!cking loud, I'm serious.
http://vid222.photobucket.com/albums/dd ... ocwruy.mp4

I left Max waiting for the potential buyer to turn up, I was waiting but I had things to do. Besides, I wouldn't be much help and he can say he's selling them for a friend so they can't sod around with the price.

[OllieNZ]

Doing an oil change on the 307, and I'm embarrassed to say as I was watching it congeal in the bucket I couldn't help but think it would make good underseal......after you heated it up so you could brush it on.

[steve_earwig]

Was that oil or sludge?

[lozz]

Doing an oil change on the 307, and I'm embarrassed to say as I was watching it congeal in the bucket I couldn't help but think it would make good underseal......after you heated it up so you could brush it on.

a lot people seem to be using waste oil as underseal.
Good idea..but it stinks that's the only problem..and it will wash off eventualy.. not good for our friends on two wheels.

its good for painting fences with..thats about all id use it on.