Post #474380 by kinggargantuan on Tue, Aug 4, 2009 7:35 AM

thanks for all the tips, guys. I tried most of them with no luck and finally gave up and exchanged it yesterday.

the receipt showed i bought it last december but since i had the extended warranty, they let me exchange it. it had less than an hour of use on it, though there's no way i could prove that.

some people tell me it's because it's a homelite but that's what i can afford right now so i have to make do. :)

maybe if i can keep this one running long enough to sell a couple tiki's, i can afford something more reliable. but then, if this one is reliable enough to get me thru a couple tikis, i guess i wont need a new one. the old catch-22.

ha

thanks again!