Well first steps done this morning into the chainsaw store to get a new pull cord setup where the guy said mate your chainsaw is over 20 years old and I said well if you can't fix it I'll go to one that will, anyway 20 minutes later he came up with second hand unit with new cord and $30 later has restored my faith in the shop as a few years ago they tried to ride this chainsaw off so I got it back and fixed it myself.
I had to take my daughter down to town to find a car and found a Mazda 3 for 6K so a good first car for a 18 year old girl, first car look was a '09 i30 2 litre diesel for 6K off the same guy where I bought my merc for 3K he did say with inflation everything is double now and no more 3K bargains. Went to another car yard where the guy's were more interested in my merc than selling us a car.
Well as today is written off tomorrow time to get my MS390 fired up and got have some fun as 3 slabs over 2 metres is needed of redgum so I can make the blades, if this branch won't do all three I'll cut down a few branches and use them after a bit of aging.
My plan is use the Oztule method of making a guide to cut the blades as redum is one hard wood to work with but I do reckon it will make the best blade. For us Aussies of course
I'm going off memory here and I reckon I did 3 inhand 1mm wire for 30 turns so for 48 volts I reckon I need to do 60 turns and I do have 2 spools of 1.6mm wire to do the rewind but that wire wire was penciled in for the E-core rewind to go an alternate way to using toroids so the shock of actually having to buy wire or just get it rewound by a mob that does do this job so I can save my fingers.
Cheers Bryan