Hi all I am new here , fairly new to the love of gardening , my boss gave me a komatsu strimmer it's quite old and won't start , I've stripped carb down cleaned it and put fresh fuel/2stroke in it it had a spark but wasn't very strong so replaced spark plug it has compression ,jus won't start at all couple things I've noticed wen I stripped carb n tried to pull it , it was spitting fuel out exhaust and web I stopped milky white fuel was dropping out over flow , does any one have any ideas on what to try next ? Thanks guys kane

Kane hughes wrote:
Hi all I am new here , fairly new to the love of gardening , my boss
gave me a komatsu strimmer it's quite old and won't start , I've
stripped carb down cleaned it and put fresh fuel/2stroke in it it had
a spark but wasn't very strong so replaced spark plug it has
compression ,jus won't start at all couple things I've noticed wen I
stripped carb n tried to pull it , it was spitting fuel out exhaust
and web I stopped milky white fuel was dropping out over flow , does
any one have any ideas on what to try next ? Thanks guys kane

Just to make sure that the fuel isn't the only problem, you could drain the tank
and carb. Crank it a bunch to make sure all the fuel is gone. If it fires at
all, that is a good sign. If not, try squirting 1/4 teaspoon or less into the
carb, then try to start it. If it now starts and runs for a moment, then you
know that you need to correct a fuel problem. It does sound like it's getting
too much fuel.

It does seem like an awful lot of fuel is goin into it , wen I tipped it in its back loads came out overflow I shall do hat you have suggested and post back what I find thanks for your reply

Kane hughes wrote:

my boss gave me a komatsu strimmer.

What's a strimmer, and why would your boss give you one... is a
strimmer like a hummer?

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:56:09 -0000, Janet wrote:

In article , Brooklyn1 says...

Kane hughes wrote:

my boss gave me a komatsu strimmer.

What's a strimmer,

A strimmer is what you call a weed wacker

Wacker... now you're really getting sexual!

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On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:56:09 -0000, Janet wrote:

In article , Brooklyn1 says...

Kane hughes wrote:

my boss gave me a komatsu strimmer.

What's a strimmer,

A strimmer is what you call a weed wacker

Wacker... now you're really getting sexual!

Wacker is sexual? You Yanks sure are weird.

I feel this conversation is moving away form strimmers/weed wackers ha