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.
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

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Charlie Pridham 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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In article ,
Charlie Pridham writes:
|
| 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.

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