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You worked it so hard, it was caught sleeping on the job.....
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zzr1200
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A service engineer generally flies under the H&S peeps radar due to them being on site for only a short while also depending on who/ which sub contractor your working for, you may not even have to sign in at the site office. When I was involved with Steel Craft (or what ever name they're using these days) I used to phone the site shift manager/foreman and meet him at the delivery gate and get taken straight to their compound on site. I was then shown the location of the machine and left to fix it.
On building sites they tend to use different colour hard hats for the mangers/supervisors, as a service engineer working on various sites sometimes you needed different hard hat colours, I didn't always wear the right colour for a service engineer......
On one site I was given a top of the range Black Petzl safety helmet and a name branded Hi-Vis by the steel erector contractor and told to go repair the machine...
.My last job as a service engineer (I which I quit last November couldn't be bother with all the bull**** I now work for 25hrs a week for a major retailer in their main warehouse as an order picker on basic money, and I'm very happy) was for a small national access company, some of the sites were brown field sites with very little build progress and security was a joke at at times. Some of the equipment could be miles from the site offices, some other sites were massive the A14 and M6 upgrade comes to mind.
Now the company that was hiring the equipment was working nights so the machines/vehicles were in a compound during the day which is when we repaired them mostly, yes where were call outs to breakdowns but at night the site offices are mostly closed, and the pain in the a**e H&S peeps are at home in bed....
.The workers on site wanted to get done and go home to bed, so would help to get the job/repair done.
I very seldom used a chainsaw on site, I often had one in the van, but there were times/site where the repair required taking the wheels of off the 125/135ft cherry picker or a 100ft scissor lift and cutting up railway sleeper type wood was required to support the machine, When big companies need something fixed yesterday they can become blind and in some case deaf as well.
I've work in the service sector since 1978 as an engineer, "I've had discussions regarding work practices and policies several times", but never have I been kicked of off a job. A couple of jobs had to be taken away, but mostly they have been done on site by one way or another....
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My avatar top left is a machine I repaired in situ on a service shaft the safety barrier was one floor below (on then then top floor) I was in a basket of a 21m cherry picker on the floor below, repaired the machine, then got out of the machine I was in walked along the steel beam, got into the repaired machine, function tested the machine in the picture, then walked back along the beam got into the first picker and got the repair signed off. In the background is the Tower of London and just below me is the Bank of England, all in a days work for an access engineer....
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Migmac
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Only a gov org could
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Have you opened it up to see what size motor? I probably have a spare. If not, the motor from one of Aldi's cheap brushless angle grinders or similar might work quite nicely.At least yours has a top guard over the blade, unlike mine. As I said I pushed mine too hard and cooked the brushed motor:
A friend remarked that there's probably a good reason they're called "one handers"!
Let's be careful up there!
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Seen these 
cant really tell size from the pics and it doesnt say much. Less power than the Stihl 261.. and looks weighty? 7.5kg..
45cc says 7kg, 18" bar..
Are bars and chains pretty standard, could I swap for an off the shelf 10" or 12" bar?
cant really tell size from the pics and it doesnt say much. Less power than the Stihl 261.. and looks weighty? 7.5kg..45cc says 7kg, 18" bar..
Are bars and chains pretty standard, could I swap for an off the shelf 10" or 12" bar?
zzr1200
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Seen these
45cc says 7kg, 18" bar..
Are bars and chains pretty standard, could I swap for an off the shelf 10" or 12" bar?
It's got to be the 2nd one, a 45cc Chainsaw with a "Powerful 3-Stoke Petrol Engine......
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Yep you just need to know the bar mount type easy to work out once you have the original bar
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OK it's cooked!
Lots of crumbly, burnt, broken plastic inside.
Gear teeth look ok. Where the motor was held to that nylon piece the two screws were loose as hell!
No markings on the motor.
14 teeth, motor shaft is just over 3mm diameter:
Like the old saying goes "Buy cheap have loads of fun fixing it!"
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The 8 inch bar and chains arrived but chains too long 
needs atleast two or four links less. The idler wheel rivet is also not ground flush with the bar.
This is 1/4", 1.1mm, 48 drive/24 cutter.
I think I want 46 drive and 22 cutters.
Anyone shortened a chain? I can turn a new rivet easy enough, easier than sending back as its from ebay.
needs atleast two or four links less. The idler wheel rivet is also not ground flush with the bar.This is 1/4", 1.1mm, 48 drive/24 cutter.
I think I want 46 drive and 22 cutters.
Anyone shortened a chain? I can turn a new rivet easy enough, easier than sending back as its from ebay.
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The 8 inch bar and chains arrived but chains too long
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This is 1/4", 1.1mm, 48 drive/24 cutter.
I think I want 46 drive and 22 cutters.
Anyone shortened a chain? I can turn a new rivet easy enough, easier than sending back as its from ebay.
You need a punch and a hammer. It’s easy, just take your time.
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You should be able to use the original ones again
Considering the speed that the chain flies round is it not worth the literal pence that a joining kit would cost from your local garden machinery place
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Yes it would however Im aware that 1/4p 1.1mm G chains and particually this length are a bit obscure and Im not expecting to find the correct one.
Another thread I was reading said that rivet links are hard to get and only included in rolls of chain..
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Its going to need a new pin after I have ground the head off to punch them out.
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You don’t grind anything thing off. A punch with a point deals with the rivets
