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You may want to install that base gasket and forget the sealer. The latest Service Manuals for the 550 XP Mark II and the 575 XP do not ask for any sealant to be applied as long as the gasket is there.

I must admit that my Makita 520i has never done that reverse cold start/run. It's a great performer with only one exception: a slight oil leak when not running. I live with that. Here's a pic: Finding parts to fix the oil leak has been tough, or should I say, next to impossible. So, I just...

That also assumes they've spent about $800 on a new set of clubs.

I received a 0-compression Husky 550 XP yesterday that has to have a new top end. Piston ring no longer exists and the groove for the ring cannot be seen. Based on this thread, I ordered a new top end and will try to restore the saw. Here's what the owner brought in: Lord knows what else I...

I saw my first eclipse of the sun in 1953 I believe, but it could have been 1954. We lived in Indianapolis. It was a total eclipse that took place in the morning. I helped mom and dad make smoked glass viewers the day before. It's an event that I will always remember. E-clips tend to be easy to...

The psychology of owning a Stihl 500i is rather amazing. Some owners like to brag that they have enough bread to spend $1,500 or more for a 79cc chainsaw. It's a huge ego boost. I tend to be more practical.

I did it but I doubt I will ever do it again: It was a stronger saw (I think) but I never saw it run when it was new. I doubt it would stay even with an 026 PRO, including the one that I still own.

Vegan logic?

One of the most common repairs I have had to make for sawyers is stripped out bar stud threads caused by overtightening the bar nuts. This is especially true on top handle saws.

Buffing might be the wrong term. I use a steel wire cup brush mounted in my drill press and clean off all the residue on the cutters and drive links before sharpening. It seems to be a good reminder that the chain was sharpened and the bar was serviced.

Every time I remove the chain I clean the air filter. I also sharpen/buff the chain and file off the burrs on the bar. Standard procedure.

Well, Drumbum, that lowered the level. Holy Cow! :aplastao:

The man approached a very beautiful woman in a large supermarket and said, “I’ve lost my wife here in the supermarket. Can I talk to you for just a couple of minutes?” The woman looked puzzled. “Why talk to me?” she asked. “Because every time I talk to a woman with tits like yours, my wife...

British doctor says, “Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another man, and have him looking for work in six weeks.” A German doctor says, “That’s nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another man, and have him looking for...

The other day I was in the Auto Zone parts store. A lady comes in and asks for a seven ten cap. We all looked at each other and said, “What’s a seven ten cap?” She said, “You know, it’s right on the engine. Mine got lost some how and I need a new one.” “What does it do?” the counter clerk...

A young, buxom, blonde woman goes to the supermarket. She starts walking up and down the aisles. Each aisle she goes to she touches her head, her ears, her breasts, and her crotch. Naturally she caught the attention of the store manager. He watched her go up and down the aisles. Each aisle the...

Indiana beech trees are excellent for firewood, but nowadays they might be an endangered species. Grandpa had a monster beech growing in his front yard, I will never forget that tree. Fir would not hold a candle to it.

Caution: Box elder has to smell worse than any firewood log there is. I try to avoid it, but to each his own. :rolleyes:

The way the weather is around here, those logs my not freeze up again until next December. Ryan, this has been a really good thread read between you and Brad. Tomorrow I plan to split a truckload of hedge rounds that I gathered a month or so ago. No reason to wait any longer. Even hedge takes...