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Well some guys cant drill a hole in the right spot at the right angle unless there's a pilot there to start.... :rolleyes: Either way is dill baby drill and tap-tap-tap. :chuck:

Ugh! thats a bad one! ^Yes what machine^ It maybe cheaper easier to just buy a new cylinder. Looks like an aluminum weld fix. -Weld an aluminum stud in place long enough to nut the muffler/carb on. This is not the best solution if your going to rip the saw apart again, as the aluminum stud...

Those new OEM cylinders are expensive. I have a feeling that’s more than I want to spend. Thanks though

Started in January 1914… He also dropped the work day from +9hrs to 8 on a 5 day work week. $5 an hour was basically doubling the pay for factory floor work. He was a believer in a happy healthy employee was a hard dedicated one. But he also was a shrewd stubborn bastard who didn’t like...

Looking for a good used Mk1 OEM cylinder. No scoring. Shipped to PA 18951

The new auto tune muffler are a major PITA to gut. Do you have the OEM muffler? Send it to me and I’ll send you back one ported. I’ll gut it and weld in a pipe for a good price including return shipping. PM if your interested

That too . . . Particularly now that we are finding out that likely 25% of that dept was blown on scams and straight up over spending :rolleyes:

I dont mean it in it that way. Its the average cost of living in the US that has pushed the pay up. This in turn pushes up the cost of everything we make because the companies just charge more to compensate for the higher pay. Its a vicious cycle, American health care costs play a major...

Craftsman and a large amount of "Made in USA" tools are actually made over seas. The way it works is quite deceptive. According to FTC standards only around 60% of the cost of the finished product needs to be in country to get the USA stamp. So alot of steel hand tools in the big box stores...

Find a length of 1-1/4" underground heat shrink tube. Underground is thicker and hot glue on the inside. If you want a lil "cush" first wrap the handle with some 1/16" thick single sided adhesive foam tape. Any good electrical supply place will have the tube, usually its only in 12" lengths...

Bought my 3rd pop-up piston from LiL Red Barn for the 550xp i got off eBay for dirt cheep. It supposedly didn't run but does without issues. :confundio1: The LRB pistons have all been great so far with OEM pin and clips along with Caber rings. I do wish they would have a bit more of an...

The above advice is all spot on. Like drf256 mentioned wax the burr while using it will help keep chips from forming on the back sides of the edges and clogging it. There are lots of high temp cutting wax sticks out there even a toilet bowl ring will work in a pinch. A cheap spray lube works...

mmmm? Crazy! Get rid of it and never think of it again. It’s probably something stupid that nobody will ever think of or should even need to.

-If you have another of the same saw start swapping parts one at a time, carb, coil, flywheel, ect until you find the culprit. -Could be the jet has a lil bit of persistent dirt or something just inside. Give carb a long soak in an ultrasonic cleaner with the flammable type parts cleaner...

I must agree with everyone so far the 572 & 565 are both great saws. They run extremely well stock & with a heavy muffler porting and cleaning up and smoothing the cylinder castings along with a cylinder gasket delete and a higher performance after market air filter they rip.