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Great find at Menards today. Only $10.00.

Jake8131 said:

Great find at Menards today. Only $10.00.

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I see you have a new sales job at Menards...congratulations.
Is it full commission?

We don't have one anywhere around that I know of.

Got a set of these on ebay for about the same money, pretty handy tools to have around. These Chinese carbs always need some tweaking seems like.

Posting once is alerting
Posting in 2 places is advertising.
Two of the tools in that kit are illegal to sell to anyone other than a registered repair workshop so expect that kit to suddenly vanish when the EPA comes across them.
Keeping up with ever changing jet adjusting heads is a never ending game of cat & mouse
EPA demands they are tamper proof so the carb makers change the heads.
Eventually the restricted tool becomes commonly available so the carb makes change the head again.
By pure accident I have found that there is only about a 1/2 dozen different needles ( excluding funny head shapes ) so now when a regular customer brings in one I can swap to a head style that has tools available .
The splined ones seem the easiest to use as the tool does not get vibrated off all the time when you are trying to make adjustments.

One thing I used to do for these odd ball needle adjustments was to get out the Dremel tool and cut a slot in the housing and across the top of the adj. for a screwdriver slot.

tom3 said:

One thing I used to do for these odd ball needle adjustments was to get out the Dremel tool and cut a slot in the housing and across the top of the adj. for a screwdriver slot.

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Did that a bit but holding a screwdriver into slots with the engine shaking around is a PIA.
The PO of the business used to buy full rebuild kits for cube carbs so I inherited a big box of 1/2 empty packets.
I was trying to find a needle for a carb that I did not have a full rebuild kit for when I noticed the wrong kit had the right needle just with a different end.
Any of the slide over ends are a whole lot easier to tune than a slotted needle, but if that's all you got then it has to work.

bertsmobile1 said:

Two of the tools in that kit are illegal to sell to anyone other than a registered repair workshop so expect that kit to suddenly vanish when the EPA comes across them.
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Might happen where you are but not here.

John Fitzgerald said:

Might happen where you are but not here.

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Well John,
You might like to go to your friendly Husqvarna dealer, Stihl dealer or even aftermarket parts dealer and ask for an adjusting tool for the current model carbs.
If you check "carb adjusting tools " on the Prime Line, Rotary , Oregon or Stens web sales site and see what comes up for sale .
Four individual tools or a kit of the same 4 tools together.
The new Ruzing tool ( husqvarna ) or Zama ( stihl) tools are not there
Walbro have gone to putting the screws ( where fitted ) behind potting mix so you have to dig them out.

The next level of 2 stroke cube carbs all have fixed jetting that is cast into the carb so not accessible for either tuning or cleaning and when tier 5 or 6 ( can't keep up) comes in there will be no more new 2 strokes wholesaled in the USA and 2 years after that it will be illegal to sell a new 2 stroke in the USA so all saws will be 4 stroke or electric.

bertsmobile1 said:

Well John,
You might like to go to your friendly Husqvarna dealer, Stihl dealer or even aftermarket parts dealer and ask for an adjusting tool for the current model carbs.
If you check "carb adjusting tools " on the Prime Line, Rotary , Oregon or Stens web sales site and see what comes up for sale .
Four individual tools or a kit of the same 4 tools together.
The new Ruzing tool ( husqvarna ) or Zama ( stihl) tools are not there
Walbro have gone to putting the screws ( where fitted ) behind potting mix so you have to dig them out.

The next level of 2 stroke cube carbs all have fixed jetting that is cast into the carb so not accessible for either tuning or cleaning and when tier 5 or 6 ( can't keep up) comes in there will be no more new 2 strokes wholesaled in the USA and 2 years after that it will be illegal to sell a new 2 stroke in the USA so all saws will be 4 stroke or electric.

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Where there’s a will there’s a way.

John Fitzgerald said:

Might happen where you are but not here.

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Not illegal here either!

shiftsuper175607 said:

I see you have a new sales job at Menards...congratulations.
Is it full commission?

We don't have one anywhere around that I know of.

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Be patient, one will magically appear soon.

SidecarFlip said:

Be patient, one will magically appear soon.

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One showed up here with plans for 2 more. It is amazing that I have never heard of them then all of a sudden...

BlazNT said:

One showed up here with plans for 2 more. It is amazing that I have never heard of them then all of a sudden...

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They actually got their start around here. I find them to be very competitive and even better pricing than Lowes or Home Despot. and I really like the 11% rebate on everything they run regularly. I see Lowes has gotten wise to it as well and is doing the same thing now.

Lowes gives a military/veteran discount, think it's 10% ? It helps.

I find the sales associates at Menards much more attuned to their products than Lowes associates and friendlier as well. At our local Lowes, the employees act like they don't want to be there. Not so at Menards. If you compare prices, I think you'll find that Menards is across the board lower than the 2 other competitors. Only thing I don't like about Menards is their power tool selection. No common name brands carried like Dewalt or Milwaukee.

We have both Lowe's and Menard's in our area, and there is an increasing difference between the two...especially in employee presence and knowledge. There is always someone nearby at Menard's to help with questions, etc., whereas at Lowe's it seems increasingly hard to find an employee. Menard's always seems to have 3 or 4 checkout lanes open, whereas Lowe's seems to increasingly want everyone to use their self-checkout line...and the 1 regular cashier that may be open always seems to have a long line of people waiting.

Lowe's parking lot is increasingly more empty, while Menard's seems to have a lot of traffic...I suspect Cutting Back on employees at Lowe's is going to hurt them in the future.

Happens when the accountants take over ,

Accountants have a big problem with spread sheets.

They believe that if it works on a spread sheet it MUST work in real life.

They are systematically destroying most companies and by default peoples life as well.

Lowes opened up down here in partnership with Woolworths

They employed a lot of long term unemployed people to man their stores, way more than the dominant store Bunnings which had 72% of the market.
The government pays 1/2 the wages when you employ long time unemployed and gives you a further payment if you train the same people with a transferrable skill.

The the accountant's spread sheets showed they could outstaff Bunnings for far less money so every one would go to Masters rather than Bunnings.
However the spread sheets do not take into account that in a hardwear store, the staff actually have to know hardwear not just what isle to look in.

This and other highly arrogant (miss)managments cause the venture to fail miserably and Woolworths to show their first trading loss in 60 years.