Recent content by Arcticmiller

Not sure if this will be helpful or not, but a JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) Phillips screwdriver set helps a lot with this….a hard-learned lesson from the motorcycle world for me…. JIS is almost the same and the screwdrivers appear to fit, but the angles are slightly different….theres also...

I don’t ask others the question, but I do tend to ask myself that question all the time. Is it worth dropping 2-300 bucks on a saw that once I crack it open and find more little bits and pieces needing replacing as I go…maybe a new 261 is more practical than fixing that old 260 etc. Then I...

That hits a little too close to home for me…looking at my truck and transmission rebuild kit on the shelf….ive put it off for a couple years already, what’s another year?

When building the Dalton highway in Alaska there’s a quarry/gravel pit every 10 miles -if I remember correctly on the distance. Trucking it any further and it was cost prohibitive to build the road. It’s a bit mind boggling that it pencils out as cheaper to even drill/blast, and crush rock than...

I have had to repair these several times on various Briggs motors. What I did to fix the last loose seat was take the head off, clean everything up, rotate the engine to where the exhaust valve was closed completely and use a center punch around the perimeter of the seat to displace some of the...

Seems like I end up buy 2-3 pieces of power equipment the years that I do. Then wonder why all the carb kit gaskets etc dried out 5-7 years later….almost like they’ve been exposed to gas for the same amount of time or something…. I did read about an idea I liked for storage in the off season...

Back when I worked in a factory building wood stoves (almost 20 years ago now that I think about it…) we’d use a pneumatic version I think it was made by souix tools. Those worked really well.

I have the “Smitty” brand one off Amazon. It works pretty well.

I love stihl, it’s what I grew up around and have saws pushing 25-30 years old that are still ticking along cutting firewood. (Cut a lot less now, but I used to cut 10+ cord per year. Sometimes a lot more, sometimes a bit less). Bought my first husky (a 572) and am surprised how much I like it...

Well, if a person makes their own “homebrewed” version of Seafoam you usually use diesel as a base. It’s a pretty decent cleaner, a cautionary tale though according to my studies on FAA materials (for aviation -an expensive hobby) diesel in plane gas engines can cause piston...

It would be interesting to see the compression numbers then….

Along similar lines, I had a snowmobile I was working on that had sat for 10 years or more. It would barely pull over. I pulled the head to see if it was a bad bore. It was fogging oil, someone had pickled it for storage and the oil basically dried out and gummed up the bore/piston interface. It...

Maybe I should just start buying saws for her…at a tiny little lady of 5’6” that 084 might be just her size…

Wish I had trees big enough to even consider trying to explain my need for this saw to the wife…maybe someday.

Lots of good info and techniques for accomplishing a hone/deglazing on a cylinder. I love having more tricks in the back pocket for a pinch. When I was a kid my best friends dad showed me a trick he learned from an old Mennonite gentleman back when he was a kid. 40-50 years before. Take a...