<VV> No Corvair - Summertime small engines

[GYoungwolf at aol.com]

I offer this up as I am sure many of you have several powered yard 
tools that might be giving you some trouble as summer starts. 
I was just about to start over after collecting a weed eater, blower, 
and chain saw that wouldn't start this year after serving well in 
hurricane clean up. I decided to take a chance at disassembling 
and cleaning the mini-carburetors to see if that would help. 
You will find that most are essentially a 4-5 piece unit with built 
in fuel pumps (rubber flaps) and are held together by 2-3 screws 
at most. A couple of squirts of carb cleaner and a flushing through 
the fuel lines got the leaf blower and the chain saw working.
The weed eater was terminal with deteriorated plastic gas lines, 
so a trip to the lawnmower store and $4 later it was back in business. 
All three engines had a ceramic type fuel pickup that was pretty 
gummed up with varnish. They were easy to clean back to a nice 
white color, however. Hope this helps someone save some $$$.
The mini-Carbmeister