I’m not sure you realise, but the spring is not the only thing missing. The pinked metal edge should locate into a similar wheel, which tensions the whole device.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I’m not sure you realise, but the spring is not the only thing missing. The pinked metal edge should locate into a similar wheel, which tensions the whole device.
They are ancient - Lord knows where from. I don't know about the other missing bit. I suspect it was lost before I got them. But they were working fine last year.
Some models do use regular-type springs.
I feel like giving up. But the body of the tool should last for decades.
Maybe it’s with contacting the people who do the Felco servicing? They may offer servicing for non-felco as well. The contact email is [email protected]
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
We have a little old man up the road who does all sorts of repairs, servicing, sharpening etc etc and his workshop is crammed to the ceiling with thousands of bits and parts. Anyone like that near you you could take them to so he could rummage through his drawers (as it were) to see if he has a suitable spring?
Failing that, is there an old fashioned ironmonger in your locality (a brown coats / Four Candles type)?
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
The tensioner that punkdoc mentions, is explained by the man here on video around 4 minutes forty seconds. (I must say he does not talk a lot on the rest of the vid and skims through the rest boring bits quickly, but the tensioner explanation is very good and I am not that good at that kind of thing
Thanks for all your ideas. I don't think it would be worth spending money on repair. They have no sentimental value. I'm not the sort of person that sticks things in a draw "just in case", but may be I will make an exception here, in case the original spring turns up.
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East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Failing that, is there an old fashioned ironmonger in your locality (a brown coats / Four Candles type)?
(I must say he does not talk a lot on the rest of the vid and skims through the rest boring bits quickly, but the tensioner explanation is very good and I am not that good at that kind of thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX-ioKxm-yI
I think if you like your secateurs then it maybe worthwhile finding someone to refurb them. Although sometimes it costs as much as a new cheap pair.
Did you notice on the metal above the handles on the right there appears to be a number 2 and maybe a 1.