Many thanks to Emile for making the course an interesting one. You never quite know what sorts of machines people will bring through the door on these courses, but Emile's machine displayed the greatest number and variety of faults I've ever come across.
Not a bad thing for a maintenance course, to be honest. After fixing the wobbly drive shaft clamp, lubricating the dry gear head, clearing the gunk out of the airbox (missing the air filter), freeing off, sanding down and greasing both ends of the seized drive shaft and giving the seized starter spring a good clean and grease, we were finally thwarted by the machine not having a throttle trigger. It suddenly became clear why the tickover was set to the maximum - to compensate for there being no throttle! Not exactly a safe set up.
I was going to say its not the worst machine I've ever seen, but to be honest .......
Anyway, I really enjoyed teaching this course and many thanks to Emile for pitching in when the roof trusses for the new workshop arrived unexpectedly early. Best of luck with your new 'quiet tools' grounds maintenance business. I really must do a controlled race to see if a slasher really is faster than a brushcutter!
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