Strimmer carburettor

Because it was difficult to be certain - it was getting very wet, very quickly. The venturi was filling up, and it was dripping off the outside of the body.

Half a mile from Wales.

If I CBA, I'd borrow one from a neighbour, but...

Umm. One of the PRIMARY reasons a small 2-stroke wont run, is that te tank breather is blocked. So a vacuum builds up and no fuel glows. Or you fill it with fuel, it warms up and floods the carburettor....

I'd say the primary reason, if there is such a thing is a fouled plug (but even that is rare with today's 2/ oils and low oil burn. Even my old British Seagull outboard motor rarely had a fouled plug and that ran on a 2/ mix of 10:1!. That *could* suffer with a blocked or open air vent because it was a manual thing on top of the fuel cap and was easy to forget (when it would either die after a while after running a fair while or flood the back of the car / boat with petrol)).

Still unlikely in Adrian's case and certainly not 'primary'.

Again, unlikely. If it were I'd be aware of it with the 20 or so small

Not in my 50 years of using 2/'s pretty regularly anyway.

Cheers, T i m

Along with lots of other reasons in my experience. In particular the

However I now have a 4-stroke strimmer and there's no way I would ever have a 2-stroke one again. OK, it's a *cheap* 4-stroke (Ryobi) but it just starts when I want it to start, I can stop it and restart it as I need, it's *so* much better than a 2-stroke.

What if you were a tree surgeon and needed a 'top handle' saw, do they make a 4/ as light and powerful as any 2/ do you know?

Funny, that's just as our daughter uses all her 2/ tools (strimmers, saws, blowers etc) all day long . Same as my experience with my 2/ mopeds (Honda Express, NSU Quickly), scooters (Lambretta LD150 / SX150) motorcycles (MZ's) and outboard motors (British Seagull and Yamaha ... that often started first (or second) pull after being laid up all season). Even my Messerschmitt KR200 (Sachs 200cc 2/) started on the first turn of the key (forwards or backwards ). If they didn't start quickly there was probably something wrong with them. ;-(

Maybe you just had a badun there Chris?

And to be fair, most (decent sized) strimmers are used with a harness so you wouldn't be holding the dead weight with your arms. Not the same with a chainsaw or hedge trimmer though.

Cheers, T i m

Yes, I know not all 2-strokes are the same. However the difference between a Ryobi 2-stroke and a Ryobi 4-stroke was considerable. The

It's also handy not having to mix fuel in the oil.

;-)

Ok.

That's true ... and they are (therefore) less polluting etc, unless you let it go upside down possibly? [1]

I wonder if the likes of Stilh will go 4/ (from their 2/ or '4 Mix') before they go (only) electric?

Still less to go wrong with a 2/ ... no valves to drop into the cylinder and write the engine off ... mind you, you can do that just as easily by not adding the 2/ oil to the fuel on a 2/.

Cheers, T i m

And the new carb...

...works like a bloody dream.

First pull, a little bit of mix and throttle-stop twiddling, and it's running as sweet as new.

Well that's a result then.