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    Using canola oil for bar lube - oiling issues now. Never in the past

    For you chemistry guys - is the canola oil molecule similar (like dissolves like) to petroleum molecules so shock treatment with premix or atf would actually do dissolving? Or would it need the alcohol-like family of solvents? I know seemingly invincible solvents do diddly squat if the target...
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    Bark receding about 1' up around entire base of silver maple

    Look for marks on the white wood for signs of saw cut. knife cut or gnawing. Once a customer played coy with me pretending the girdling saw cuts weren't there till I saw them. Then they admitted to it. There could be girdling marks just behind the bark edge if the tree tried one hurrah at...
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    Mysterious echo2511t issue

    Using stuffed rope get the piston about half way to tdc before you stuff the rope in so it doesn't work its way into the ports and get sheared off there when you apply torque to the clutch. If you use an impact or normal wrench be cognisant of whether you're applying load to the pull start cord...
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    Songs of Perfection

    Story. The turkey song got me on a country (and western! both kinds!) jag and II came across Dave Dudley's 6 days on the road. Back in the day just out of high school I was in a C+W band and was instructed that at this particular bar Dave would be coming up to play my guitar for this song...
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    Songs of Perfection

    Gonna bust out the jollies - I laughed out loud. Twang
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    TCIA WTF?

    Odd, the comment about Mark being active on other forum alternatives. I figured he was just pulling a recluse. I have periodically considered the fact that he was absent. His right/decision to choose. edit - I gave equal weight to treebuzz and treehouse until treehouse changed up its...
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    Mysterious echo2511t issue

    If I were you I'd pull off the other two springs and inspect for wear/thinning right where they contact/hook onto the clutch. I've often seen thinning/wear at that point on various equipment. The other two might be close to failure too. $ for another cover(?) At some point the clutch shoe...
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    Wtb mini porti

    A technical thought. IIt is known that knot tightening or settling is a method or means that absorbs and lowers the peak spike of a shock load, including half hitches grabbing a spar log. So in that case the X crossing is rope on rope and a potential (actually seems more like a certainty to...
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    Bearing replacement question

    Situation looks much better, seeing the bearings on the outside structure face. Looks like a candidate for belts/pulley off, prep shaft, pull bearing. You don't have to be gentle on a bearing you're throwing away. Vernier works good for finding dia high spots. Also gentle sliding the new...
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    PNW laminated rot, overgrowth, hoarding, demo, GTG?

    As a kid it struck me how farms always had cars, buggies, wagons, old horse plows, tractors combines etc parked on the back 40 with overgrowth and saplings coming up through them. I guess the space was free and the residual value, robbing parts and materials and maybe sentimental value won out...
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    Bearing replacement question

    To what Reach said, I've seen many vids where mechanics try to force a bearing or component off an uncleaned, corroded, dented, keyway channel edge bashed etc shaft and had a big fight or failure. Where possible/needed a pristine deburring, de bumping, diameter high spot removal prep, cleaning...
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    Restoration Pruning, Guy Meilleur

    The "Mayor" of pruning used to get into er discussions that were animated. Very informative.
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    TCIA WTF?

    The writers of articles have to realise they are, at least traditionally, held to a higher standard than personal, often opinion, posters. Informal peer review is passing it by your staff and perhaps editor, if there is one. I presume tcia magazine has one. More consequential articles are...
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    TCIA WTF?

    Do I recall correctly that tcia now owns treebuzz or has rights to it? Would this be why the seeming copy paste verbatim content? Wow, I'd be embarrassed to present that as journalistic content. I even thought the first linked article was a put on and not real. There ought to be a way to...
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    Ol' Homelite on my neighbor's bench

    I can almost disassemble and reassemble that basic plastic cased model of Homelite in my sleep now! I worked on the LX30 with the same sucky chain oiler. I partially gave up and bypassed the oil rate knob and added a 0.062 dia drilled orifice, threaded 10-32 into the casting at the oil outlet...
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