Every single time. It takes two seconds and the alternative is a hospital.
Nan
@knobandtube_nan
Bought a fixer-upper in 2011, learned what was behind the walls, and now photographs everything first.
Cut it all out and redo rather than caulking over the split. New silicone does not stick reliably to old silicone and you will be back here in a month.
Plastic scraper for the bulk, then a silicone remover gel left on for an hour, then isopropyl. The gel is the step everybody skips and it is the one that matters.
Dry and no smell is good news. What you do not want is soft, sagging, or musty - at that point it has been wet long enough to matter and you want somebody in sooner rather than later.
Before any of that, confirm it is fuel and not air. A cracked intake gasket gives an identical symptom - lean, dies, runs on choke. Spray a small amount of carb cleaner around the intake joint while it idles; if the engine note changes, you have an air leak and you are about to clean the wrong thing.
Mesh tape rather than a better filler. I have been buying the wrong solution twice a year.
The lifting point lands. My iron already lives on the floor.
How long does it actually take you to thread from cold?
Check the fuel cap vent as well. It is free, and a partially blocked vent produces intermittent surging that people spend a weekend chasing inside the carburettor.
Long screw in the top hinge. Highest return five minutes in home repair, and it has rescued doors people were about to rehang.
One long one per leaf is plenty, ideally the middle hole so it pulls square. Drill a pilot hole first or you will split the jamb.
Check the thru axle and the dropout faces too. Mine was a dry axle after six months of bottom bracket paranoia.
Make sure the plug is the right heat range and reach. A slightly long plug can contact the piston and a short one puts the spark in the wrong place.
Skip the top tier chain and buy the one below. Same wear life, less sparkle.
A proper drywall primer is better and it is cheap. Thinned emulsion works at a push but it soaks in unevenly, which is the thing you are trying to avoid.
Prime the patches or they will flash. Compound absorbs differently from the surrounding paint and you get dull circles under a sheen even when the surface is perfectly flat.
The throttle shaft argument is the one I had not thought about at all.