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Western Cedar or Eastern Red Cedar (Juniper)? Western is more valuable for lumber but board clarity is most important. Typically milling to 1” lumber is best. Often as T&G.

Sorry to hear about the crank failure. I was hoping these had a bit more longevity. I looked on PartsTree. $565 for new OEM. You may be better off with another $75 crank from Asia.

Changing the tank assembly takes a bit over an hour. Don’t waste your time trying to weld the tank. It will just end up cracked again IF you manage to get it sealed, which is harder than you think. And you’ll spend nearly as much time welding it as replacing it.

It’s been several years, but if I remember correctly I could not find an advance point that improved performance and put it back to stock. Good gains in the muffler though.

I recently heard on a podcast that apps are legally protected from any type of add-on software. That means you can’t run add blocker software on them or other interference with data mining. A click-bait nightmare like AS doesn’t want people being able to use add blockers. I hope they wasted a...

Say more about that. What geology?

Big old hybrid. 36” face cut 15’ up. I blocked down the stump in 6 pieces. This is about halfway through. Just the flush cut left. This guy watched the whole thing and never got up.

In theory, you could make a base piece that had a cutter mounted. You can definitely modify the cutter for other chamber contours. If you have watched TreeMonkey’s videos you may have noticed he has a very similar mandrel system but the base piece is threaded with an index. One mark on the...

Is the exhaust gasket blocking the port?

Looks like early aftermarket with an exploded pin bearing. Some of the early AM jugs had very good porting. It might be worth timing it. I have a 066 56mm AM jug that’s a direct KS copy. Even has the KS emblem. Looks like a candidate for a first porting attempt. Fingers or bridges maybe?

How???

Probably not me. I had a great time at the last one and want to do it again, but I’m too far behind and too far away.

I hear you. Several people on here have had good experiences with them. That is a good sign. But I’ve owned or worked on FT/Holzforma, NeoTech, Hnsvarqua, and I think a few other clone 372s. They all look very similar in manufacturing, if not from the same factories. I wouldn’t trust the...

My .02 is that this thread should go in Builders Reviews. The trouble is people pay more attention to the stickies at the top of the Chainsaw forum than they do the sub-forums. So where does Builders Review go? I don’t think it needs to go anywhere, certainly not buried in the build threads...

I don’t know if they are better, they were just very cheap and they mostly work. Quality varies widely in clone saws and no particular brand has changed that.