Interesting couple of hours yesterday with a couple of whipper snippers a friend of my wife brought over. First one he said needed a new primer bulb. Can't get one screw out to remove the carby so i could get to the primer bulb screws. Finally removed the screws but they had been Loctited in so one thread was stripped out. Then I noticed the fuel lines had pretty much disappeared and the strainer was in the bottom of the tank. Ok shake it out and half a tank of water poured out. The usual story "it was running" My standard reply to this is "I know it was running, they always ran when they left the shop" Anyway I got it up and running but the shaft wasn't turning, pulled the clutch housing and it was all rusted solid, makes you get very annoyed when people won't tell you the truth.The impression he had given me was that the primer bulb had only recently failed.The second one "just needs the pull start fixed because you can't pull it, it is stuck". My reply "Easy to see why it doesn't work,somebody put straight fuel in this 2 stroke, motor is siezed, nothing wrong with the pull start" " Can it be fixed" "Yes it can, take a grinder, cut the shaft in half and drop it in the rubbish bin". Thought I would give you a bit of a laugh for the morning
