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strimmer motor won't start...
Its an oldy, but apperas to have bags of compression. Simply was in use,
left up for a winter a couple of years ago, never started since. Its a ltllet 2-0stroke japanese engine - probably about 25cc or so and I can;t see any spark - the pllug smells of petrol and we even dribbled some mix into teh p[lug hole, to no avail. I whipped off the pull handle and discovered something I hadn't seen since me dads moped curca 1960. A magneto and some contacts. I adjusted the gap so it was at least closed some of the time and open some of the time, but still no visible sparks. I removed the wire off the switch that stops the thing in case this was faulty, and still no sparks. First of all, is there some way I can identify that there really are no sparks? I stuck a car strobe light in series with the plug, but I think this runs off the LT side of the car not the HT...so probably proves nothing. Its been years since I fiddled with a magneto, but ISTR that if there is fuel and a spark these things generally kick a bit and fire if not run. This ones doing neither. Is it down to thimgs like stripping out the points and claening them up? Is there anyway I can use an analogue multimeter to diagnose the problem? |
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