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  1. #16
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    Thanks for all the help. I didn't look at it yesterday - spent the whole day helping a mate build a boat. As for the mower, I'm currently at the 'it doesn't exist' stage of repairing something

    Nah, I'll get to it ... perhaps tomorrow

    Cheers
    Richard

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    I hereby apply for reinstatement of the title FORUM IDIOT!

    As Ashore suggested, I WAS turning the pulley the wrong way to pretension the spring. Now, why this wasn't obvious on saturday is a mystery (especially as it had been suggested as a solution), as is why this wasn't obvious until I'd pulled the pulley assembly (and hence one side of the crankcase) off the machine. And, of course, I couldn't get a knot in the old cord to hold so now she's sporting a new chord made out of sash chord (twice the thickness ) and a handle made out of 6" of 1" square pine :eek: . However, it is back together again and making consecutive brmm brmm noises. I even finished mowing the lawn (took all of five minutes :mad: )

    Thanks for the help. Now, provided it doesn't start raining and make the lawn grow, I can ignore the thing for another six months.

    Cheers
    Richard

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daddles
    I hereby apply for reinstatement of the title FORUM IDIOT!
    Never let it worry you it happens to us all and wasn't it fun seeing how it all works I hope you showed the 12 yr olds as well
    Rgds Russell




    Being "over the hill" is much better than being under it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daddles
    I hereby apply for reinstatement of the title FORUM IDIOT!
    You need to put that to a poll
    (says he who put a chain on the chainsaw back to front and tried to work out why it wouldn't cut)
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iain
    You need to put that to a poll
    (says he who put a chain on the chainsaw back to front and tried to work out why it wouldn't cut)
    Title Grabber....you obviously haven't seen what happens when you put a power drill on the crank and the bloody thing starts and takes off....I'll give you FORUM IDIOT...I am emminently more qualified
    Squizzy

    "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" {screamed by maths teacher in Year 8}

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    You Fellas' aint even close, I once worked with guy who tried to RUN START a chainsaw, hence his "affectionate" nickname "Dopey"
    Bruce C.
    catchy catchphrase needed here, apply in writing to the above .

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    Just someone you know, I worked with a Newcastle Tug skipper who climbed the tree sat on branch and tried to cut it off with a circular saw, after they stiched the thumb back on his nickname is Captian Craw



    Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iain
    (says he who put a chain on the chainsaw back to front and tried to work out why it wouldn't cut)[/I]
    Doesnt cut but man you can make heaps of smoke and eventually set the branch youre trying to cut on fire.
    Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)

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    Thanks, I am now applying for a patent on the all new petrol powered 2 stroke fire starter
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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    Iain, putting the chain on backwards is a bush way of cutting corrugated iron.

    Effective, just a little rough & "tuneful"...


    Cheers.................Sean, screeching eejit


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