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Echo strimmer parts?
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| Charlie Pridham 2007-11-24, 9:25 am |
| My 24 year old has stopped working due I am told to the coil/condenser
having stopped working (it has occasional weak sparks but wont start)
anyway my repair man says he can not get the bits and despite scavenging
a load of half dead strimmers he had about the place could not find a
compatible match.
I did ask if a different engine could be fitted but the shaft head is a
different shape.
Any one any suggestions to offer someone in mourning for and old friend,
I don't use it heavily about 3 times per year so am reluctant to spend
big money, don't want to hire as I often don't know I am going to have
the time until it happens.
I do not need all sorts of fancy add ons just a bog standard cord
strimmer.
I had a look at Ryobi strimmers but my son tells me their reputation is
not good, any comments.
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea
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| Nick Maclaren 2007-11-24, 9:25 am |
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In article <MPG.21b23133ca6687a19896fa@News.Individual.NET>,
Charlie Pridham <charlie@roselandhouse.co.uk> writes:
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|> My 24 year old has stopped working due I am told to the coil/condenser
|> having stopped working (it has occasional weak sparks but wont start)
|> anyway my repair man says he can not get the bits and despite scavenging
|> a load of half dead strimmers he had about the place could not find a
|> compatible match.
Get someone who knows about hacking electrics to check it out. And
I mean "hacking" - not an electrical shop, but perhaps someone with
and interest in old cars or radios.
It is generally dead easy to replace a condenser with a functionally
equivalent one, and often possible to replace a coil. And 90% of
the time, it is the condenser, anyway.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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| Charlie Pridham 2007-11-24, 1:25 pm |
| In article <fi984r$2pd$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>, nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk
says...
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> In article <MPG.21b23133ca6687a19896fa@News.Individual.NET>,
> Charlie Pridham <charlie@roselandhouse.co.uk> writes:
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> |> My 24 year old has stopped working due I am told to the coil/condenser
> |> having stopped working (it has occasional weak sparks but wont start)
> |> anyway my repair man says he can not get the bits and despite scavenging
> |> a load of half dead strimmers he had about the place could not find a
> |> compatible match.
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> Get someone who knows about hacking electrics to check it out. And
> I mean "hacking" - not an electrical shop, but perhaps someone with
> and interest in old cars or radios.
>
> It is generally dead easy to replace a condenser with a functionally
> equivalent one, and often possible to replace a coil. And 90% of
> the time, it is the condenser, anyway.
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>
> Regards,
> Nick Maclaren.
>
Thanks for that Nick, my repair man did suggest I try motor bike/scooter
repairers as well, I think the coil may well intergral to the motor but
the condenser should be straight foward enough, no harm in having a go is
there as its dead at the mo!
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea
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