Recent content by legdelimber

Is the guy just not loosening the bar nuts, or is he just clamping down without getting the adjuster pin in the bar hole? crud under the cover so it's not tightening proper and just cranking on the adjuster screw to keep the bar forward? Buying a hundred dollar cover instead of the bolt, etc...

I've seen some Echo blowers pb-403 pb-413 and pb-620's , that the exhaust port was nearly flat on top. High hour landscaper units. Machine marks worn off of the pistons and the cylinder plating looking thin in places, in the couple that I pulled the cylinder. At idle, the rings sounded like a...

That 6 inch~ish travel per change, kinda tilts me towards the nose sprocket. Figure a smidge more than three times (3.1416...) the diameter of a sprocket and that will get you the distance of one turn of the sprocket. Might help a little with narrowing it down to which one to stare at.

For storage and work area? Like Stihl livin mentioned, shipping container. I'd want to have it off the ground far enough to let air circulate. Trapped moisture will rot/rust a floor faster than you'd expect. A single axle storage trailer gives you an axle already under it if you need to move...

Anyone running a screw machine? What's tooling life of rolling threads and mashing the heads on steel vs aluminum? What about lubricants? How well does the machine stay in adjustment? Does the electric bill drop off enough to count against the cost of the aluminum stock over steel? I've never...

My head sorta feels funny from trying envision the rigging to let the tap feed at the correct rate to match the pitch, if ya ain't got the feed gears. I'm kind thinking of something like a tapping head. Still lets the tap pull itself but mounted way offset. I assume you're letting the tap work...

Cherry will sometimes ooze sap at little stress cracks. Sort of wells up in places. If the birds ever let them get ripe, nice tasting little pea sized fruit. Not much meat on them though. As Stihlo36 mentioned they tend to get planted by birds pooping along fences. We always had blackberries and...

Roadside honor system? There's a place a couple of miles from here with a big stand out front. As a lifelong Insomniac, I seriously like being able to go pick up a watermelon in the middle of the night. Years ago In another place, used to be a stand with scales and bags. Weigh your own stuff and...

Get the chain rolled around to either a loose or tight spot. Make a sharpie mark on one spot of the rim/sprocket. Also make a mark on the chain Keeping track of the marks, roll the chain completely around a few times and take note if the marks shift apart as you do this. If you have two colors...

About my username. If any Admin ever feels inclined to put a space between "Leg" and De-Limber, would be nice.

Leg de-limber. I concocted that moniker due to a moment with a hatchet, in my youth. Probably 6~8 years old. Memories are fading on me these days. I got my hands on the hatchet one day and decided to knock some limb/knots off of a waist high (to me) stump. One of the knots was pretty weak and...

One more thought on powder burners, lest I completely forget to mention it.. I'll always appreciate the gun range/shooting thread guys.

I can't speak directly of the firearms, but will say that I've come to collect a spare tool or something if I like it. Things seem to always be discontinued whenever I need a new one.

Speaking of cutting pine. Anyone else get to flush cut pine trees outta the yard as a kid? Mom, Sis and myself on a shiny chromed Craftsman bow saw. That twangy sound from the blade. Two of us working the saw while the other one kept kerosene swabbed on the blade. Steel Peanut can and an old...

Red color Fuel cap. Has anyone cleaned up and boiled one in a pot of dye? I'm more of a function over style guy. But I do find some of the clean up and re-coloring jobs pretty interesting from a technical point. The old computers crowd has some extensive work in getting old plastic to look nice...