Suburban Plowboy
Veteran Member
Years ago, I got a Husqvarna 125B gas blower. This is a small machine with a 28-cc engine. Husqvarna, right? Can't go wrong with Husqvarna.
I have other blowers now, but I continued using the 125B for blowing out the shop and blowing crud out of my mower's radiator, which is necessary if I don't want it to boil over. The 125B was nice and light for this purpose.
Where I live, ethanol simply does not work in small engines. They gum up very fast. If you're not using a tool very often, you have to know what you're doing and be disciplined or it will gum up. For most of my blower's life, I did not know what I was doing. I had a lot of frustrating days.
Once I knew what I was doing, the blower started dying when I hit the throttle. Rebuilding the carb did not help. Went on the web and learned that this model has a history of developing an air leak because the screws holding the cylinder on come loose.
Also, Husqvarna uses some kind of garbage material to make the fuel lines, so they turn into some kind of exotic Swedish cheese after a few short years. But you can't expect a company to use fuel lines as good as the ones Chinese companies use, just because it has been around since 1689.
Wow! I sure was smart to trust Husqvarna not to do anything stupid! I really pat myself on the back for that.
You have to take this thing almost completely apart to get to the screws to tighten them. I have been putting it off for about three weeks.
While I was dreading taking it apart, I thought about the little EGO electric blower I got my wife for the porch. Blows about 1.4 times as much air as the 125B, fires up every time, and will never have to be worked on. Can't cause hearing damage, either. Not for short jobs. Price without expensive battery: $219. With battery and charger: $229.
The 125B costs $219 and eventually has to be disassembled and put back together, you have to buy corn-free gas and mix it, and the carb has to be rebuilt every couple of years.
I ordered another EGO just like the first one. I don't want to have to walk back and forth between the shop and house over and over. It's fantastic.
So now I'm wondering how stupid I am to have kept trying to work with the Husky for so long.
I want to take it to the dump, because no one is going to buy an old blower that doesn't run. It feels wrong, since the problem is a simple air leak, but then life is short.
I have other blowers now, but I continued using the 125B for blowing out the shop and blowing crud out of my mower's radiator, which is necessary if I don't want it to boil over. The 125B was nice and light for this purpose.
Where I live, ethanol simply does not work in small engines. They gum up very fast. If you're not using a tool very often, you have to know what you're doing and be disciplined or it will gum up. For most of my blower's life, I did not know what I was doing. I had a lot of frustrating days.
Once I knew what I was doing, the blower started dying when I hit the throttle. Rebuilding the carb did not help. Went on the web and learned that this model has a history of developing an air leak because the screws holding the cylinder on come loose.
Also, Husqvarna uses some kind of garbage material to make the fuel lines, so they turn into some kind of exotic Swedish cheese after a few short years. But you can't expect a company to use fuel lines as good as the ones Chinese companies use, just because it has been around since 1689.
Wow! I sure was smart to trust Husqvarna not to do anything stupid! I really pat myself on the back for that.
You have to take this thing almost completely apart to get to the screws to tighten them. I have been putting it off for about three weeks.
While I was dreading taking it apart, I thought about the little EGO electric blower I got my wife for the porch. Blows about 1.4 times as much air as the 125B, fires up every time, and will never have to be worked on. Can't cause hearing damage, either. Not for short jobs. Price without expensive battery: $219. With battery and charger: $229.
The 125B costs $219 and eventually has to be disassembled and put back together, you have to buy corn-free gas and mix it, and the carb has to be rebuilt every couple of years.
I ordered another EGO just like the first one. I don't want to have to walk back and forth between the shop and house over and over. It's fantastic.
So now I'm wondering how stupid I am to have kept trying to work with the Husky for so long.
I want to take it to the dump, because no one is going to buy an old blower that doesn't run. It feels wrong, since the problem is a simple air leak, but then life is short.
