Flip it over, both faces of the wheel will cut.Bit of an odd one today, First off, one of my cut knurls decided to commit suicide:
Need to buy another knurling wheel but they are a dear do and I am trying not to spend any money,
It's not the cost but the mark up. Must be worth 20p!god £2.50 you may need to go for councilling to get over it
But they had them in stock so you could hide your embarrassment from not reading the manual!
Discovered that ride on lawnmowers use a left hand threaded retaining bolt on the right hand blade. Unfortunately I only made this amazing discovery after I'd sheared off the blade retaining bolt!
And of course it broke off some distance down the spindle.
FFS thinks I!
Stripped the deck off it, removed the spindle and managed to take the shaft out of it, fortunately revealing the broken bolt level with the end of the shaft. A washer, m10 nut and judicious application of the mig had the recalcitrant bolt out.
Pretty much a free fix apart from being fleeced at the local lawnmower shop to the tune of £2.15 for a single replacement left hand threaded M10 bolt.
Gave me an opportunity to give the deck a really good power washing while it's off.
I think I'll give it a coat of paint just to give it some protection. In 2 minds to use epoxy primer or a zinc based silver paint. Maybe both? Don't suppose it will make much odds as it'll still get chipped with flying stones. View attachment 485585
There's a manual?But they had them in stock so you could hide your embarrassment from not reading the manual!
I've learn the hard way that buying 10 or so LH threaded bolts from China was a cheap and fairly reliable way of having some stock for the future , I now have them in 6, 8 & 10 mm threads . as bolt heads and x point heads ( handy for chuck replacements )Discovered that ride on lawnmowers use a left hand threaded retaining bolt on the right hand blade. Unfortunately I only made this amazing discovery after I'd sheared off the blade retaining bolt!
And of course it broke off some distance down the spindle.
FFS thinks I!
Stripped the deck off it, removed the spindle and managed to take the shaft out of it, fortunately revealing the broken bolt level with the end of the shaft. A washer, m10 nut and judicious application of the mig had the recalcitrant bolt out.
Pretty much a free fix apart from being fleeced at the local lawnmower shop to the tune of £2.15 for a single replacement left hand threaded M10 bolt.
Gave me an opportunity to give the deck a really good power washing while it's off.
I think I'll give it a coat of paint just to give it some protection. In 2 minds to use epoxy primer or a zinc based silver paint. Maybe both? Don't suppose it will make much odds as it'll still get chipped with flying stones. View attachment 485585
Guess how I found out ???
A pain and something you shouldn't have to do on a hired item. I'd have slung it back to them to sort out. I suppose there is the inconvenience of time lost and travel to return it and get a replacement though.Have to tell you guys & gals if you hire a
Husqvarna
Two stroke disc cutter and it starts getting a bit sluggish & smells rich in fuel.
You can carefully take the top cover off using 6 point star keys , then undo the filter carrier . remove the carrier with care , lay a clean lint free cloth over the opening to stop leaves , twigs and other crud entering and walk well away from the machine and with the dirty side of the filter facing down gently give it 20 or so decent taps on something hard , if you have an air line blow the filter from the clean side or you'll push grit into or even through the filter to the clean side .
Now ,under the filter in the duct to the carb is a pretty whitish nylon filter screen . that is meant to attract micro droplets of two stroke oil that comes out the crank case , to stop it wetting the filter paper and rendering the filter useless .
That treacly brown residue ought to be washed of with clean petrol , boiling water will distort the filter screen
But all is not lost if you did use boiling water .. Find a cold flat surface and a piece of ply . re warm the filter with HAND HOT clean water, with the filter lips up wards off the cold flat plate put the ply on top and add a clean weigh ( Brick ??) on top of the ply &.. the screen is almost back to being useable . . leave it undisturbed over night .
Remove the ply & brick , wash the filter in clean petrol and quickly reinsert the filter scree the correct way up then like lightning stick the filter carrier & filter back on before it has chance to distort and not fit .
The securing screws are a pain , as they use small tapped flat slide in plates in slots in the main body housing ., the slightest bit out ( moved the machine to bring it stripped ) under cover and two plates slipped to one side. It took me many minutes to realise what had happened as I could see a bit of thread down the hole . Realigned then both with a long thin screw driver ,& it all went back together in minutes and was ready for concrete cutting again.
Did you use cast iron arc rods to build it up again?
Um, less than three quid to buy locally or spend an afternoon with the lathe cutting a left hand thread, perhaps not the ethos of this forum but I would have bought one and saved my time.But they had them in stock so you could hide your embarrassment from not reading the manual!
Totally worth the £1.95 mark up. I assume you gave them a fiver and told them to keep the change.
And Black & Decker's electric chain saws.
You have to realise I wasn't just cutting a couple of feet of cheap concrete , more line 250 feet of cut 3 inches deep done in inch passes that included millstone grit in it from a local quarry .
Delayed gratification ...... it pays handsomely to think a head and get some LH thread stocks in if you are a regular user .
