Strimmer petrol leak

[Tim Downie]

My McCulloch two-stroke strimmer has started leaking fuel though the
breather in the filler cap.

It seems to have started whilst it was in storage over winter but I didn't
really twig to the problem until I had to top up its tank and found it
dripping continuously through the vent plug.

I guess I just need a new cap but any ideas as to why it should have started
leaking in the first place? There are no cracks and the O-ring is intact.
The fuel is definitely coming through the central breather plug.

Tim

[Harry Bloomfield]

Tim Downie laid this down on his screen :

If this is while it is in use....

Could it be the fuel which is being agitated to the point where it is
able to splash up and out of the vent. There should be some sort of
baffle to prevent this and encourage the fuel to drain back down into
the tank. Is the baffle missing?

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[Tim Downie]

Harry Bloomfield wrote:
> Tim Downie laid this down on his screen :
> > My McCulloch two-stroke strimmer has started leaking fuel though
> > the breather in the filler cap.
> >
> > It seems to have started whilst it was in storage over winter but I
> > didn't really twig to the problem until I had to top up its tank
> > and found it dripping continuously through the vent plug.
> >
> > I guess I just need a new cap but any ideas as to why it should
> > have started leaking in the first place? There are no cracks and
> > the O-ring is intact. The fuel is definitely coming through the
> > central breather plug. Tim
>
> If this is while it is in use....

No. I happens if I just tip the strimmer so that the fuel covers the filler
cap.

I had a quick google for McCulloch spares but could find filler caps.
Anyone know of a site selling filler caps?

Tim

[Harry Bloomfield]

Tim Downie explained on 31/05/2008 :

In that case I would suspect the filler itself is not sealing properly,
I think the cap needs to seal to enable the breather to work as
designed. We had a plastic filler cap on a plastic tank (lawnmower).
The cap would tighten up, but binding on its threads due to distortion,
it would not screw down all the way to the O ring seal.

[Tim Downie]

Harry Bloomfield wrote:
> Tim Downie explained on 31/05/2008 :

> The fuel is definitely coming through the
> > > > central breather plug. Tim
>

> In that case I would suspect the filler itself is not sealing
> properly,

Nope. Please re-read.

Tim

[david....@googlemail.com]

On Friday, May 30, 2008 11:51:43 PM UTC+1, Tim Downie wrote:
> My McCulloch two-stroke strimmer has started leaking fuel though the breather in the filler cap.It seems to have started whilst it was in storage over winter but I didn't really twig to the problem until I had to top up its tank and found it dripping continuously through the vent plug.I guess I just need a new cap but any ideas as to why it should have started leaking in the first place? There are no cracks and the O-ring is intact. The fuel is definitely coming through the central breather plug.Tim

hi
if you take the cap off and have a look inside see if there is a rubber teat in the middle of the cap i had the same thing somehow mine went missing.

[Phil L]

david....@googlemail.com wrote:
> hi
> if you take the cap off and have a look inside see if there is a
> rubber teat in the middle of the cap i had the same thing somehow
> mine went missing.

Why don't you read the date of the article before you post?

This was over six years ago, I think he's either fixed it or bought a new
one by now.

Fucking google groupers should be fucked off until they learn what a
newsgroup is

[Tim+]

Indeed. ;-) Bought a new fuel cap from an eBay seller and problem solved
(many years ago).

Tim

[davemal...@gmail.com]

Phil's a Fucking idiot , with a capital Fuckwit
he's replying to an out of date post.
Get a life loser.

[Phil L]

A fucking idiot with a capital fuckwit eh?

You've just replied to a 2 year old post you thick cunt, which was in reply
to a post made six years previous to that. BTW, the strimmer in question
was lobbed in a skip in April of 2009, about the time you were born, so why
not grow a brain cell, think up a reply and post back in 2018, you gormless
twat.

[Tim+]

Eh? No it wasn't. I bought a new cap on eBay and the strimmer is still
going strong.

Tim

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[Brian Gaff]

While I agree that web interfaces to usenet definitely need to be improved
and that dates of posts need to be looked at before anyone replies there are
two observations I need to make here.
1. How is it that said portals seem to suddenly regurgitate old messages
for no apparent reason, and..
2. Is there any need to be so obnoxious and insulting over a mistaken reply?
Brian

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[Phil L]

Brian Gaff wrote:
> While I agree that web interfaces to usenet definitely need to be
> improved and that dates of posts need to be looked at before anyone
> replies there are two observations I need to make here.
> 1. How is it that said portals seem to suddenly regurgitate old
> messages for no apparent reason, and..
> 2. Is there any need to be so obnoxious and insulting over a mistaken
> reply? Brian

They're not regurgitating ancient posts as far as the idiots using diybanter
or google groups are concerned, they are viewing a web page with a thread
from 8 or 9 years ago and decide to answer it. This appears in this group
today as an orphaned reply, often with no mention of what the original
thread was about, so a post will appear entitled 're: pipes through a garage
wall' and all that will be written is some drivel like, 'I tried those and
found they weren't galvanized and the spring bearings wore down within 2
days'

[Bill]

In message <nwrkz.714728$w%.523473@fx35.am4>, Phil L
<neverc...@hotmail.com> writes

>They're not regurgitating ancient posts as far as the idiots using
>diybanter or google groups are concerned, they are viewing a web page
>with a thread from 8 or 9 years ago and decide to answer it. This
>appears in this group today as an orphaned reply, often with no mention
>of what the original thread was about, so a post will appear entitled
>'re: pipes through a garage wall' and all that will be written is some
>drivel like, 'I tried those and found they weren't galvanized and the
>spring bearings wore down within 2 days'

Of course, one might expect someone on a d-i-y group to set about
creating a web portal to the group that works, as opposed to letting
some dubious operator somewhere beyond Timbuktu cream off advertising
revenue on the backs of the worthy posters here.

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[Tim+]

Brian Gaff <bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> While I agree that web interfaces to usenet definitely need to be improved
> and that dates of posts need to be looked at before anyone replies there are
> two observations I need to make here.
> 1. How is it that said portals seem to suddenly regurgitate old messages
> for no apparent reason, and..

Having looked at one of these portals, it seems that the site randomly
promotes an ancient thread as as "top question" or some other guff as a way
of generating traffic out of old messages.

Sadly, these sites don't then rank threads by "most recent reply" but by
date of first post which means that any of our responses are almost
certainly lost in the mists of time as you need to go back to the date of
the original post to see the response rather than seeing it as a recent
post.

All in all, totally fucked up and no use to man nor beast.

> 2. Is there any need to be so obnoxious and insulting over a mistaken reply?

Well they do seem to be reducing in frequency so maybe it's working? ;-)

Tim


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[Edwin Briggs]

replying to Tim Downie, Edwin Briggs wrote:
I think you will find that the problem is with the fuel cap being a bad fit. I
have great difficulty getting the cap to screw on properly.


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[Davey]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:44:04 GMT
Edwin Briggs <caedfaa9ed1216d60ef...@example.com> wrote:

> replying to Tim Downie, Edwin Briggs wrote:
> I think you will find that the problem is with the fuel cap being a
> bad fit. I have great difficulty getting the cap to screw on properly.
>
>

I think he might have fixed it by now.

"posted on May 30, 2008, 10:51 pm"

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[Tim+]

Indeed! Bought a new cap from ebay and it's been fine ever since.

Tim


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[irb...@gmail.com]

This thread's funny AF.

So much has happened since it started -no I give no fucks as to how old it is, in fact those replies are why I'm replying :D