That certainly is a twist to what STIHL has said for the last few years. I have a BR600 with about 150 hrs on it. I purchased the valve adjustment kit which included the special feeler gage. When I went through the adjustment procedure, I found the valve lash was too loose. I cannot tell you how loose, because the special gage will only fit in the channel shaped rocker arm, and is made with the correct clearance. After tightening the valve lash, the blower had more power. My dealer confirmed they had the same result after the first valve adjustment. I sure hope someone out there can give us the real skinny on what this is all about. Charles Ranheim

Hi again guys, I'm learning quite a lot from all of you. I've gone over the bottle and labels and I'm pretty confused about one thing. The Micro is 5-0-1, the Bloom is 0-5-4, but there are other nutes in some of it that don't make sense to me. I will start with the Bloom (I was wrong before) Available Phosphate (5%) Soluble Potassium (4%) Soluble Magnesium (3%) Soluble Sulfur (5%) This is what it says on the label. What is the purpose of all this Sulfur?? On the Micro there's 5.5% Ca. So, let me get this straight, the Ca ups the pH? Someone told me that C. Annuum don't need much Nitrogen at all, and to get it below 50 if possible. When I do this by using the Micro, I suppose there isn't enough Ca to help with the pH, right? See, I never had this problem before, it was only when the plant got older, which I guess is expected as they're bigger and get more hungry. Here are the readings from my system, both newly calibrated pH and PPM meters 3 days ago, over the last 3 days. pH 5.83 - PPM 472 pH 5.77 - PPM 433 pH 5.61 - PPM 362 Todays reading is.... pH 4.92 - PPM 498 What on earth could be causing a drop in pH and raise in PPM so vigorously in 24 hours? I haven't even touched the system other than check visually quickly. You see, I dare not increase the nutrient amount or they take more damage? So am I starving them or overfeeding them? I have attached a link to some pictures of how bad it looks. They don't look too good :( Link at the bottom of page. Plus the amount of floral abortion (I think that's the name used) is insane. I thought it could be a pollination issue but nothing I do matters, it'll flower, then drop off from the stalk. Hmmm.... Probably every day I see 10 dropped flowers :( Any further help? I'll definitely be changing the solution again today. Just, are you sure putting so much Nitrogen is ok at this stage? Here is a link that might be useful: My sick Chili plants :(

Of course overflows sometimes happen. There are several potential causes for any washing machine to overflow. A common fault in that regard is one of the water valves hanging open / failing to close ... but your replacement should minimize the possibility (other than the odds of a manufacturing defect in the new part or a bit of debris in the water supply getting past the protective screens). Fix the problem at hand, don't worry so much about other things that could happen. :-) However, do make sure the valve is the problem before ordering the part. Test the solenoids for continuity with a multimeter, and confirm 120v at the solenoids when they should be on. Could also be a broken/shorted wire, temp switch problem, or timer problem.

I saw a recent episode of Ask This Old House where they installed a hot/cold bib for a lady for this same purpose. It looked like a standard 'through the wall' frost-free (or whatever you call it) hose bib only it was two units welded together instead of one. Two faucet control knobs combined into a single outlet.