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Seen a lot of 325 with .058- not always stilh chain . Just ran a bucket of chains for a customer, got to have a conversation with them as they are useing .325 but drive links are .050,.058,.063 all in the same drive count and all stilh- some one isn't paying attention I think.
 

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FWIW the 48" hard nose bar on my avatar saw is .404 by .058 .I'd imagine though it's 40 years old or older . Fact I bought one of the last reels of .404 x .058 chisel chain Baileys had when they sold out . I might add at one time they made .404 in .050 .
 

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I run 3/8 .063 on everything from 16-36" bars on 50cc saws and up. Some smaller saws get smaller gauge chain; the 3120 gets .404 .063.
 

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Some of the .050 stuff is getting particularly less robust on the complete assembly, needless to say stretching is a bad issue with that stuff. doesn't seem to be too much of and issue with full sized 3/8 but any of the half height verisons are pretty wimpy. Had a lot of problems last year- crooked cutting that I just couldn't find a reason for, even with a new bar and chain, switched to .058 and .063 problem solved. Hard to say it is just import chain as almost all of it is made in chi-com territory- including Stilh. ah well get what ya pay for i guess.
 
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