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Back in the 50’s or 60’s American made Tools were super expensive compared to what a person made. Remember my grandpa talking about paying over 100$ for his porter cable circular saw in the 60’s. Thing is that all metal all ball bearing tool still works and is in my shop. My uncle told me he...

If you don’t have one of these we need to find one for you to display, the old McCulloch labeled superchargers prior to the renaming to Paxton. The vettes, t-birds and some of the willeys/kiaser cars were available with one from factory in the 50’s.

Cuts well

Stihl casts and plates over 90% of their own cylinders in Brazil nowadays. The other 10 or so is the other 3 main makers like gilerdoni, ks and mahle. I suppose they cast as many as they can themselves and let the overflow or smaller runs get outsourced.

Well apparently going back to marks and a touch past is enough with the old crush sleeve in place. One of the guys telling you to do this is one of the main factory techs at a large gm dealer that works on every part of the trucks including that 10 speed automatic when it has issues. Bet this...

Ok guess I was wrong on that, I know that zama carbs are pretty popular on echo just apparently not that one. Isn’t the hda walbro the one homelite used to like using also?

Hate to say it but I’m sure the echo has a zama and so will the ms 311/391. Zama is actually a wholly owned subsidiary of Stihl and makes carbs for many brands. The carb plant in China also makes the bar oil pumps.

Personally I’d buy the 6 pack of oil for the 2 year warranty and get the lighter saw with better av but to each their own. Unless they truly have a defective part neither one will need the warranty weather it’s 1 year or 5. Well built pro saws just don’t fail for the average consumer that cuts a...

well the unfortunate thing is as time gos on newer generations that don’t seem to work on stuff as much as the older ones we’re looking for cheap tools to just have around. New ones are still lifetime warranty I believe and they are making certain lines in the us still if i recall correctly but...

The 311 isn’t in the same category as the echo build wise and i honestly wouldn’t buy the 311 anyway since the 391 is the same weight and has way more power. If your friend wants a Stihl the 261 or 362 will be more what he should be looking for. And i wouldn’t piss money away on a clone saw...

Hexa not going anywhere they want to push more of it in the USA. I actually find nothing wrong with it except for it being more expensive.

Unfortunately if he wanted the warranty he really had no choice but yes they could have called and said that it couldn’t leave without all oem stuff for a warranty

Just curious to what oil you were running? 4-mix engines like good oil, in fact that is why ultra came out because they had a rash of 4-mix go down under warranty with orange bottle. We have an early br 600 that still runs like a top but it’s always had a good oil ran in it. Dad used ultra...

I have the 72” grandberg I was running a single 090 on but will be running 2 066’s on from now on when needed. Honestly my singe 066 wirh 3/8” wirh a 56” bar on my 48” mill does better for cut speed than my 075 or 090 with .404 ever did. The .404 holds up better in dirty wood ect and streached...

Unless they showed you specifically that the warrant wasn’t reset per Stihls paperwork I’d say the dealership is full of it. I brought a couple things in for a tree service under warranty and they got fixed with full new warranty according to local dealer. It was 2 br 800’s he had issues with...