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Oh right. It looks like an instrument straight out of captain Nemo's sub. Proper steampunk.
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A sink of hot water and fairly liquid. Scrubbing brushes including a stiff wheel detail brush. And a spray bottle of neat screwfix degreaser. Lots of elbow grease and this combo will remove all soiling. Sometimes I hit them first with my Lavor hot washer.
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The Echo is great, the lightest proper petrol saw you can buy. It is much lighter and less powerful than the MS201's, both a good thing. Its also very well silenced so its not uncomfortable without ear defenders. Very easy to control and ideal for pruning and ideal for work under 8-10", its slow on bigger stuff. Where a ms201 is more suited to blocking down limbs and trunks 10-14".
Mine also runs perfectly, starts first pull and is great to use. I love how compact it is. Mine is the 10" carving bar version TESC, which may be useful if you need to cut between stuff in small spaces.
Stihl do the MS151 which is near enough the same thing, slightly heavier with slightly more power, but double the cost! The guy Im working with uses one as his climbing saw. They do a ground version.
MS 151 TC-E Petrol Chainsaw | STIHL
STIHL MS 151 TC-E special chainsaw for tree maintenance: precise cut ✓ STIHL 2-MIX engine ✓ STIHL ErgoStart ✓ ➤ Find out more!
Lightweight saw is much easier on the wrists, every climber I know has had some wrist issues.
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The Echo is great, the lightest proper petrol saw you can buy. It is much lighter and less powerful than the MS201's, both a good thing. Its also very well silenced so its not uncomfortable without ear defenders. Very easy to control and ideal for pruning and ideal for work under 8-10", its slow on bigger stuff. Where a ms201 is more suited to blocking down limbs and trunks 10-14".
Mine also runs perfectly, starts first pull and is great to use. I love how compact it is. Mine is the 10" carving bar version TESC, which may be useful if you need to cut between stuff in small spaces.
Stihl do the MS151 which is near enough the same thing, slightly heavier with slightly more power, but double the cost! The guy Im working with uses one as his climbing saw. They do a ground version.
MS 151 TC-E Petrol Chainsaw | STIHL
STIHL MS 151 TC-E special chainsaw for tree maintenance: precise cut ✓ STIHL 2-MIX engine ✓ STIHL ErgoStart ✓ ➤ Find out more!www.stihl.co.uk
Lightweight saw is much easier on the wrists, every climber I know has had some wrist issues.
Thanks Kram! That confirms what I’ve been told by pro hedgelayers.
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On the generosity of strangers...
As I'm sure some of you know, I maintain a website. The website contains write-ups of many of the projects I've done, along with some calculators to help work stuff out and various pages of data on things like threads. When I originally made the website (back in 2011), I did it for two reasons. The projects write-ups were there because I thought it would do me good to get in the habit of writing about making stuff (and to give me an easy way to look back on projects I'd done in the past). The calculators and data pages were there because I was fed up with searching for stuff on-line and having to filter through lots of American resources where the authors had never heard of the millimetre. Having it all on my website meant that it was easy for me to find the information when I needed it.
In the very early days of the website, it got hardly any "traffic" and as a result, was completely free to run. Over the years it has got more and more popular and after a while I started getting bills from the hosting provider. As those bills increased, I wanted to try to offset them a bit, but I hate adverts on websites. As an alternative, I rather optimistically put this simple notice quite unobtrusively (in my opinion) at the bottom of each page:
For the first year or two, not much came of that, which didn't surprise me at all. However, after a while I started to get occasional donations (along with more frequent messages telling me that they liked the website, which I always appreciated getting and always made a point of replying to). Those donations went into a paypal account, which was also used to pay for the website hosting. Unsurprisingly, I kept having to add a bit to the paypal balance to cover the hosting costs.
About four or five years ago, those donations became frequent enough that I was hardly ever having to top up the paypal balance. It has been a while since I've even logged into the paypal account, but I checked a few days ago and the balance surprised me. Now it's not like I'm going to be able to use it for an early retirement, but there was a few hundred pounds in there.
I mentioned this to my other half and she immediately said "you should use it to buy something special for the workshop, you know the sort of thing you wouldn't be able to justify normally but you'd really like to have". Sometimes when your other half suggests you do something, it's best to just get on and do it!
This is definitely not a tool I needed. I already have three #4s (which cost me about £15 each), a #4½ (which I think was about £20) and two #5s (an Axminster one that was my first ever plane and a Stanley that cost me about £20). This cost substantially more than all of those put together but it really is a thing of beauty:
I think you'd call it "reassuringly" heavy. It weighs 2.9 kg, which puts it somewhere in between my Stanley #6 and #7. I don't think I'll be using it for rough work (for that I sometimes find the #5 a bit heavy and switch to wooden planes), but I think it'll be lovely as a smoothing plane. So thank you, kind strangers, for donating to the website and funding my tool habit!
It felt like the sort of thing that deserved a place on the tool wall, so the rebate plane got moved into a gap higher up so the Clifton can sit next to my low-angle smoother:
As I'm sure some of you know, I maintain a website. The website contains write-ups of many of the projects I've done, along with some calculators to help work stuff out and various pages of data on things like threads. When I originally made the website (back in 2011), I did it for two reasons. The projects write-ups were there because I thought it would do me good to get in the habit of writing about making stuff (and to give me an easy way to look back on projects I'd done in the past). The calculators and data pages were there because I was fed up with searching for stuff on-line and having to filter through lots of American resources where the authors had never heard of the millimetre. Having it all on my website meant that it was easy for me to find the information when I needed it.
In the very early days of the website, it got hardly any "traffic" and as a result, was completely free to run. Over the years it has got more and more popular and after a while I started getting bills from the hosting provider. As those bills increased, I wanted to try to offset them a bit, but I hate adverts on websites. As an alternative, I rather optimistically put this simple notice quite unobtrusively (in my opinion) at the bottom of each page:
For the first year or two, not much came of that, which didn't surprise me at all. However, after a while I started to get occasional donations (along with more frequent messages telling me that they liked the website, which I always appreciated getting and always made a point of replying to). Those donations went into a paypal account, which was also used to pay for the website hosting. Unsurprisingly, I kept having to add a bit to the paypal balance to cover the hosting costs.
About four or five years ago, those donations became frequent enough that I was hardly ever having to top up the paypal balance. It has been a while since I've even logged into the paypal account, but I checked a few days ago and the balance surprised me. Now it's not like I'm going to be able to use it for an early retirement, but there was a few hundred pounds in there.
I mentioned this to my other half and she immediately said "you should use it to buy something special for the workshop, you know the sort of thing you wouldn't be able to justify normally but you'd really like to have". Sometimes when your other half suggests you do something, it's best to just get on and do it!
This is definitely not a tool I needed. I already have three #4s (which cost me about £15 each), a #4½ (which I think was about £20) and two #5s (an Axminster one that was my first ever plane and a Stanley that cost me about £20). This cost substantially more than all of those put together but it really is a thing of beauty:
I think you'd call it "reassuringly" heavy. It weighs 2.9 kg, which puts it somewhere in between my Stanley #6 and #7. I don't think I'll be using it for rough work (for that I sometimes find the #5 a bit heavy and switch to wooden planes), but I think it'll be lovely as a smoothing plane. So thank you, kind strangers, for donating to the website and funding my tool habit!
It felt like the sort of thing that deserved a place on the tool wall, so the rebate plane got moved into a gap higher up so the Clifton can sit next to my low-angle smoother:
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Won two lots of welding electrodes at an auction last week for ridiculous little money.
Went to pick them up today, only 15 minutes drive.
There's Lincoln Kryo 1 in 2.5, 3.2 and 4mm
Lincoln Conarc 85 in 2.5, 3.2 and 4mm
Lincoln Baso G in 2.5mm
An awful lot of Böhler Fox EV70 in 2.5, 3.2 and 4mm
1 box of Böhler Fox EV 65 2.5mm
5 boxes of Böhler Fox EV50-W 4mm
All vaccuum sealed except the EV65 and EV50.
9388 electrodes in total if my math is correct. I don't think I'll have to buy any rods in the near future.
Went to pick them up today, only 15 minutes drive.
There's Lincoln Kryo 1 in 2.5, 3.2 and 4mm
Lincoln Conarc 85 in 2.5, 3.2 and 4mm
Lincoln Baso G in 2.5mm
An awful lot of Böhler Fox EV70 in 2.5, 3.2 and 4mm
1 box of Böhler Fox EV 65 2.5mm
5 boxes of Böhler Fox EV50-W 4mm
All vaccuum sealed except the EV65 and EV50.
9388 electrodes in total if my math is correct. I don't think I'll have to buy any rods in the near future.
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Good choiceThis box arrived today, from @Seadog.
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Also, the inevitable occured today. I know what I am, so no need to say.
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Next you will need a box of plasma consumables, and put them somewhere sensible! I went to use mine today, melted the tip and now cant find the spares
I was quite irritated at having to use all four of my grinders!
Lidl currently have some consumables but I think they are only for the pilot arc torch, not the one that comes with this as they look different.
Not so much acquired today, but found today.
I had been thinking earlier today, as to what to do about the suds pump on the big mill, and then this evening while tidying up the various boxes that have naturally gathered on all near horizontal surfaces on the mill, I found this.
A 2.2kw boost (aka 230 to 380V) vfd, which I now remember buying for that exact purpose
I had been thinking earlier today, as to what to do about the suds pump on the big mill, and then this evening while tidying up the various boxes that have naturally gathered on all near horizontal surfaces on the mill, I found this.
A 2.2kw boost (aka 230 to 380V) vfd, which I now remember buying for that exact purpose
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Yes, somone had a lonk to some on ebay which I bought, but then somone else said they were not as good quality, discussion in the plasma thread.
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A current pic of the CS340. I have rescued the carb for inspection, I asume theres skmething to be cleaned under the screwed cover/diaphram area.
Today arrived some Echo cs2511 spikes! I was expecting just one as I did t read the listing properly. Sadly I dont have any of the correct self tapper screws (plain plastic holes, either 4 or 5mm I cant remember)
Anyone know what screws I need, or have a pair spare?
I have a spare spike, if anyone with a 2511 would like it? Ideally trade for a pair of screws..
LS dont list the spike or screws on parts diagrams
Most should have Echo or be able to get easily enough, plus the internet..
Stihl are greatly overpriced, and I dislike funding the Germans.
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A particularly nice little Tractel 500 kg lever chain hoist.
Very light, very handy , very compct, and very portable.
Just need some compatible sky-hooks now.....
Very light, very handy , very compct, and very portable.
Just need some compatible sky-hooks now.....
Seadog
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Not today, late last night in a windswept car park (?)
The start of an adventure with hydraulics, I intend to make a press and this is a known good power pack. I just need to work out how it all goes together and more importantly, make it work! The ram is multi stage and I don't know whether that is a good or bad thing.
The start of an adventure with hydraulics, I intend to make a press and this is a known good power pack. I just need to work out how it all goes together and more importantly, make it work! The ram is multi stage and I don't know whether that is a good or bad thing.
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It came out lovely.
I've used a similar method to clean up my jonsered but it takes ages...
Anyways I have a 194 or 192T which will require some love and I'll try to follow your instructions
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Got this fakita set this morning for 70 euros.
Angle grinder
Drill
1/2" impact
2 6Ah they say batteries
Charger
And case .
I'll run them on 4Ah Parkside batteries till I can get genuine Makita batteries and charger.
I've been waiting this moment for months and got a discount from the seller.
I'll start with those and I'll later replace with genuine stuff if the use justifies the expense.
I'll surely keep using my Parkside drill instead of the clone but that's a detail
