Tree Sling'r said:
I wonder how many home owners purchase saws with no idea of what to do? Just fire it up and wind out all the way with out letting off like it is an electric weed eater.
I would feel bad if it happened to me, I am too honest to be a business man - always worried of shorting someone.
But it sounds like this guy really never had an idea - I imagine it would not be hard to fry a saw if you never knew what you were doing.
Good luck.
Lots, I'd suspect. I had some idiot buy my Homelite SuperEZ Auto earlier this fall. When he first inquired about the saw, I indicated that it needed to be tuned, since I never quite got it to run the way I'd have liked. I sold it to him (at a loss) and shipped it to him, along with a note the reiterated the fact that the saw would need to be adjusted for HIS location initially and throughout the life of the saw. I also mentioned that this was a natural reality of saw use and ownership.
Well, he either didn't adjust it or mis-adjusted it, so it ran like crap when it ran at all. He perpetually emailed me about it for the first couple weeks that he had it. I repeatedly reiterated the need to have the saw properly tuned and that this might require professional assistance. I was told that he felt this wasn't fair, since he bought a used saw to save money and not to have to sink extra cash into it at the saw shop, blah blah blah.
I don't know if he ever solved the problem, since Outlook now knows that incoming emails from him are to be immediately and permanently deleted. Oh well.