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valkyrie1
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Originally posted by marksman41:
Many of the small engines on blowers, weedeaters, and such, have a small screen around the spark plug. It's an EPA mandated thing. Those screens get blocked up with burned carbon and cause problems.

The reason I know is that I took my Stihl vac/blower in for poor idling and not going to full power. The tech cleaned it once by removing the screen, heating it, and knocking the carbon off. The next time it happened, the screen mysteriously went missing and I haven't had a problem since.

Don't know if this is your problem (maybe carb., or something else), but worth looking into.
Where is this small screen? did a search and couldn't find a reference to it.
In the muffler . It's a spark arrester .
Ahhhh,ok I know about that one.
 
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Lots of confusion in this thread. lol

It starts and runs just fine, my soon to be 85 year old father just can't pull it fast enough to start it.

I played with it again briefly today. There's no safety switch on the "door". I also tried it with the cord pulled half way and all the way out, thinking maybe there was some sort of switch. After playing with it a bit more, I was starting to think his cordless drill wasn't spinning it fast enough (contrary to what I thought before).

And then the nut on the crank came loose. I tightened it back up and I think I convinced him to give up trying that way. Smile


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Sounds like he needs a good battery powered blower.


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Sounds like he needs a good battery powered blower.


These are my thoughts also. They're also a little bit lighter.
 
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