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Originally Posted by Biggd
The older equipment always seems to work well. Some of the newer equipment, esp the Chinese made crap, is junk. I had a Poulin lawn mower that I bought at Sears 25 years ago, never failed to start. I had to retire it because it was burning too much oil and left a cloud of smoke when I cut the lawn. I bought a new Husqvarna a few years ago to replace it. I have to take the carb off every spring and clean it to get it to run right. I've tried running it dry, always use stabilizer but it has a cheap Chinese carburetor on it and the float needle always has to be cleaned.
I'm slowly turning over many of my tools to battery powered. I bought a Makita chain saw this past summer to replace a 40 year old Homelite, which never failed to start, by the way and I'm going to buy a Makita lawn mower this winter.
Just removing the anxiety of not knowing if these things are going to continue to start when I need them is worth the price.
I'm a retired mechanic so I can fix all the gas equipment when it fails but I don't want to anymore, don't even want to work on my vehicles anymore.
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I was told some years back that the carb issue is less about manufacture origin and more about efficiency and EPA regulations. That the needles are more precise/efficient and, thus, more prone to blockage.
In terms of electric tools, I'm totally with you on the whacker, blower, etc. but for my snowblower, tractor, and chainsaw there's no way I'd go battery...at least with today's tech. They just simply can't compete.
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