WSJchester
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What'd you use to file the slot? Anything special?
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What'd you use to file the slot? Anything special?
Chris-PA
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I have a bunch of small triangular files and small flat files. Nothing very special, it is just soft aluminum.
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Thanks. I read all this stuff and am intrigued but pretty much have ever only done the basics, which is why I need an earthquake to practice on ("training wheels" someone called it earlier). And I still have to ask pretty basic questions.
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I just finished reading this thread in it's entirety. I think NASA should be sent this thread. Sent into space for discovery, it may serve to send curious alien life packing for fear of confronting irrational and unpredictable earthlings. Maybe they'll like Kid056 though. Seriously.
That said, I am seriously thinking about doing my part to save the earth by picking up a 38cc demo for $65 on eBay. Damn WSJChester just had to call and put the bug in me! Iffen it's got a motor, and can be messed with, I'm in. I think it's worth the $65. Looks like I'm going to need more metal burrs and polishing heads!
That said, I am seriously thinking about doing my part to save the earth by picking up a 38cc demo for $65 on eBay. Damn WSJChester just had to call and put the bug in me! Iffen it's got a motor, and can be messed with, I'm in. I think it's worth the $65. Looks like I'm going to need more metal burrs and polishing heads!
Very sorry with the noob question, but are you talking about filing the key slot in the fly wheel? If so, what prevents the flywheel from moving back and forth with the extra play in the key. Also, how do you know which way to move it? I guess I have a lot more reading to do on this site haha.
You should file the key itself and not the flywheel. It doesn't take much.
The key isn't there to keep the flywheel from slipping. The crankshaft is tapered and when you tighten the nut it jams the flywheel on the taper, it will never move if its tight. The key is there so you get the flywheel in the right place to index the timing, that's all.
Chris-PA
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I guess the advantage of filing the key is that it is more generically replaceable than the flywheel. Also, you can remove it and maybe it is easier to remove a set amount of material from the side. However, it is steel, and if you make it narrower it will not stay in the crankshaft groove as well during assembly - a minor issue. With Poulan flywheels there is no key, just a tab cast into the flywheel, so I am used to filing those anyway, and did the same here.
The trickiest part is in reassembly once it is filed. The flywheel can no rotate during tightening, and you need to keep the flywheel rotated against the key (advanced) when you tighten it. And I have not had enough coffee to try to describe it.
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Checking to see if I'm thinking right. To advance the timing, would I rotate the crank key slot to the top side and then file the side of the key that faces the rear handle. Even if that is correct, this is still sick thinking, but in this thread we are normal.
Checking to see if I'm thinking right. To advance the timing, would I rotate the crank key slot to the top side and then file the side of the key that faces the rear handle. Even if that is correct, this is still sick thinking, but in this thread we are normal.
I think it is easier to think about it as moving the flywheel in a clock wise, or counter clock wise direction. And in my untrained head, to advance the timing, you would want to move it in the direction the fan spins....which I think is counter clockwise?
Chris-PA
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The flywheel spins counterclockwise when viewed from the end of the crankshaft on the flywheel side. To advance it, file the right (trailing) edge of the key when viewed from the shaft end, or the right edge of the keyway in the flywheel.
Then you must hold the flywheel in the advanced (rotated counterclockwise) position while you tighten the nut.
Then you must hold the flywheel in the advanced (rotated counterclockwise) position while you tighten the nut.
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Uh-uh, not my fault! I refuse to take any blame for your weakness(es!). You are an equipment junkie and now cannot live until you have an earthquake mounted on the excavator. And how about the Massey Ferguson? Lots of room there!
I hear the fellow selling them's willing to make you a special deal for a quantity buy.
I'll be in the neighborhood in 3 weeks and expect to see your progress. :smile2:
My cousin stopped by and ask to borrow a chain saw so I filled up (Fuel and bar oil) the HUSKYQUAKE and sharpen the chain and put it in the back of his pick up
This my friends will be a HUGE test for the Earthquake chain saw he has been knowing to blow thing up :msp_ohmy:
I will not be surprised if it comes back in pieces LOL
This my friends will be a HUGE test for the Earthquake chain saw he has been knowing to blow thing up :msp_ohmy:
I will not be surprised if it comes back in pieces LOL
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I've thought about what I'd do if I loaned out one of my saws. I have two small saws and two smaller saws, of the four, I would have to loan the 026 before the others. I'd probably sell it before the others also.
It came back this am I put fuel in it and it fired right up :msp_smile:
Chain needs some TLC tho
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Has anybody killed one yet? Must be tough little buggers.
I haven't but I'm trying my best to do it :msp_wink:
Where'd they go??
What happened to the $65 demo Earthquakes on eBay?
What happened to the $65 demo Earthquakes on eBay?
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