WTF is a compression screw?

**sAsLEX** · 29th June 2008, 19:23

Originally Posted by speights_bud

Striped paint ACTUALLY exists. it's not actually 'stripey' more like a base colour with a speckle of secondary colour...

Or where a Sgt got sick of being asked for striped paint by privates sent to him that he cut a paint can in half, welded some divisions in it, and then welded the tin back up and filled it with different coloured paints.........

**speights_bud** · 29th June 2008, 19:26

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

Or where a Sgt got sick of being asked for striped paint by privates sent to him that he cut a paint can in half, welded some divisions in it, and then welded the tin back up and filled it with different coloured paints.........

I think if i were him i'd rather fetch myself a long weight...

**GSVR** · 30th June 2008, 14:58

Originally Posted by Timmay

After having spend a couple of weekend's trying to get a mates SR250 to idle properly with no luck he took it to a shop mechanic who fixed it by adjusting the "compression screw". What on earth is a compression screw? I have worked on cars and bikes for years now and have never heard of such a thing. The internet is no help either. Does anyone know where this mystical screw is and what it does?

Thanks to all in advance

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Was this written on an invoice or was it what the mechanic said to your mate? Does you mate suffer from glue ear or was it really noisey when he was talking to the mechanic?

The reason I ask is becuase "compensation screw" is a part on some carbs and is to do with setting the mixture.

**Drew** · 30th June 2008, 15:39

Originally Posted by GSVR

Was this written on an invoice or was it what the mechanic said to your mate? Does you mate suffer from glue ear or was it really noisey when he was talking to the mechanic?

The reason I ask is becuase "compensation screw" is a part on some carbs and is to do with setting the mixture.

Way too plausable, MODS, get rid of this post!!!

**Timmay** · 30th June 2008, 16:41

yeah, could be compensation, my mate, who Chinese whispered this to me is of the programmer nature. Being an engineer and weekend mechanic i thought this must have been wrong.

And yes, I have used a digital plum bob(level) accurate to 0.01 degrees!! or so the display said

**speights_bud** · 30th June 2008, 17:14

A plumb bob and level are two diff things... anywho, off to plumbing world to get myself some Fallopian tubes...

**ManDownUnder** · 30th June 2008, 17:17

Originally Posted by speights_bud

I think if i were him i'd rather fetch myself a long weight...

I was sent for one of those... and gleefully sat in stores reading while the guys did more than their share of the job... Seemed like a fair deal to me - till they realised I knew what I was doing.

I love it when people play a joke on themselves...!

**speights_bud** · 30th June 2008, 17:19

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

I was sent for one of those... and gleefully sat in stores reading while the guys did more than their share of the job... Seemed like a fair deal to me - till they realised I knew what I was doing.

I love it when people play a joke on themselves...!

Haha yea, i was told this one before i started my trade, unfortunately nobody asked me to get them one so i never got my half hour coffee

**TLDV8** · 30th June 2008, 19:51

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

The amount of times people have been told to get a bucket of striped paint by their senior rates, or to go get a bucket of steam

I remember as an apprentice,being sent down to the machine shop to ask the storeman for a long weight.( i thought it must be something technical)

At least i didn't fall for the sky hook.

**What?** · 30th June 2008, 21:08

Originally Posted by speights_bud

A plumb bob and level are two diff things... anywho, off to plumbing world to get myself some Fallopian tubes...

One must assume that you already own a Teste Puller (for ball joints)...

**tri boy** · 30th June 2008, 21:09

or being sent to get the smoko orders, and read it out to the girls there aloud. It went like this: 3 mince pies,
1 ham/salad roll
2 pork rolls
2 jelly doughnuts
2 buttered ovaries
2 cans of coke
2......what are you ladies laughing at???

Yep, I was a dumb apprentice (but hooked up with a sweet girl from the hairdressers next door)

**What?** · 30th June 2008, 21:15

Anyway... a Compression Screw is a thing that is sometimes found in the top of the motor. It looks just like a spark plug, except that it has the word "Champion" written on it.