Recent content by EFSM

The only good solution is to move south to somewhere that it doesn’t snow much, There is plenty of room in southern Illinois.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean by the length of the tapped hole. Are you meaning thread depth or something else? I’m still baffled by your comment about the tapped depth being irrelevant.

I see. Learn something new every day. Were you working for Ford when they designed the Triton engines’ spark plug threads? I wasn’t trying to start a big fracas. If someone else has a logical reason for the spacers on the bolts tell us about it. I haven’t been able to come up with one.

I have done this (torquing using piston stop) and had them come loose. But each person needs to figure out what works for them. And yes, it will probably take a loose clutch or two to figure it out.

I use an impact to reinstall them. I used to use a piston lock and ratchet but I found the impact to be more reliable. Just make sure you pull the rope out and then turn the engine back against compression so you aren't tightening against the flywheel/recoil--you can loosen the flywheel and...

I thought they were there so they could use longer bolts, which would allow the bolts to stretch a little more and give more elasticity so that they don’t come loose as easily.

It shouldn't ever need a chain replacement, if the cutters keep growing longer and longer (like beaver teeth). The first thought that crossed my mind when I saw that picture is "Are all Chinese people left handed?" The second was "That's a beaver tree!"

Why would they? We buy the Chinese stuff, it turns out to be junk or at least counterfeit, we grumble a bit, and go right back to buying it. Would you change if you had such a good racket going?

I really dig that angled tunnel one. Never seen the likes.

If you cut a board with the pith (center of the log) in it, it will almost certainly crack in half. It would be a lot better to take a board on either side of the center. I don’t have experience with chainsaw milling, only bandsaw, so if you’re looking for chainsaw milling advice that will have...

If you’d cut the base and squish a bunch you might still be able to make that work.

Are you using a different size anvil for LP chain vs big 3/8? They require a different size.

Put them on a bread and water diet for a week. That should do it.

That looks really good. Here is a picture of what your username can do. This is my dad and the deer he shot yesterday with a CVA 300 blackout.

How much cracking happens also has to do with how much rivet sticks through the strap. Oregon rivets have way more sticking through than Stihl, so it’s way harder to get a factory look. Madsens got some of Oregon’s old factory rivet spinners (they might still have them) and they often couldn’t...