Just made a tool for adjusting carburetor on 2 cycle engine.

[rebel]

This isn't rocket science technology, but it was useful for me today, and might come in use in a jam one day.

I had to adjust one of those new models that don't have a regular screw but a grooved knob that's down in a deep hole. I found a crimp splice for electrical repairs and gently tapped it over the end of the screw and turned it with a small slotted screwdriver, just like usual.
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[Duck]

Kind of like beating a cheap socket over one of those stupid "theft proof" lug nuts.

A bunch of years ago my friend Eric had a blowout on his 1993 Ford Probe. He said he didn't have the tool for that one lug nut. When I got there with a Chinese socket set, none of them fit just right. I hammered one of them on there, but it slipped when I tried turning it. So I went back home & got my oxygen-acetylene tanks, came back & just put some weld beads around it to give it some "teeth" and then I was able to use a socket to turn it. (and yes, we replaced the stud that I ruined with the heat)

 

[Southern Fried]

Something like "universal fit" which means "don't work on nothing".

 

[rebel]

Actually, I'm pleased to report that it worked great. My chainsaw hasn't run in a week and the guy I took it to, to fix it, returned it and said "Sorry."
I've just cut a log up, have some more tuning to do, but as soon as I find another in my electrical bin, I'm going to permanently install it on the other screw so I can adjust it like a normal person would.:gratzie:

 

[Duck]

Actually, I'm pleased to report that it worked great. My chainsaw hasn't run in a week and the guy I took it to, to fix it, returned it and said "Sorry."
I've just cut a log up, have some more tuning to do, but as soon as I find another in my electrical bin, I'm going to permanently install it on the other screw so I can adjust it like a normal person would.:gratzie:

What are you gonna do, solder it, or just remove the jet & crimp it really tight?

That reminds me, ... I haven't run either of my chain saws in about a year. I think I dumped the gas out of them though. I should go start them up. I probably have a few trees I could trim.

 

[rebel]

What are you gonna do, solder it, or just remove the jet & crimp it really tight?

That reminds me, ... I haven't run either of my chain saws in about a year. I think I dumped the gas out of them though. I should go start them up. I probably have a few trees I could trim.

There's no need. The yellow size butt splice [that's really what it's called] fits perfect the way it is. It's not but a lb. or 2 of torque required to turn one of those screws.

 

[Duck]

There's no need. The yellow size butt splice [that's really what it's called] fits perfect the way it is. It's not but a lb. or 2 of torque required to turn one of those screws.

It's on a chain saw though. I'd be worried about vibration making it fall off. But even if it does fall off, it's still just a butt connector.

Maybe if you use a spade connector or a ring terminal, you'd be able to adjust it by hand without needing a screwdriver.

One time I crimped a spade connector to the armature of a little electric motor & used it as a cam that struck a homemade reed switch as it spun. The homemade reed switch (two strips from a feeler gauge with a skinny sliver of wood sandwiched between them using nylon bolts) rapidly open & closed the speaker wire circuit in a guitar amp. I got some interesting effects that way but didn't really use it much. I didn't think the spade terminal would stay on the motor armature, but it did. I didn't use any glue or solder or anything, I just crimped it.

I also made a phaser (which is nothing but a circuit that splits the pre-amp signal into two signals (left and right) and puts an adjustable, but very short delay on either or both channels.) and a voice box like the one Peter Frampton used, except mine was entirely electrical, didn't use air pressure in a tube.

 

[jaiart]

That's the oddest announcement for the birth of a infant son I've ever heard. Lol, "made a 'tool' to adjust carburetors.". Lol come on, ya gotta at least smile at that one.