Mastermind Meets The MS500i

[Stihl working Hard]

Meh



It's pretty wide.....and working saws are us....so I intend to keep the bottom ring.

I would love to move the pin though.



I bet you are right, and why I'll just epoxy one jug to test that theory.



I'm not planning on leaving the exhaust that low.....but 105° is as high as I "think" it really needs to go. But...to test its reaction to increased blowdown, I'll be doing 102° on one of them.




Yep....not a lot of meat above the port. Gotta remember the 661 though. 56mm bore. I take the exhaust way up on that saw. It loves blowdown.



Well.....I do.



They ain't playing around. Stihl has been doing their R&D.





Worse time for me to pick to do a thread fellas. I was up most of the night coughing. I'm not feeling so sporty today.

Might be a good time for a little rest my friend and just chill out for the weekend

 

[Dub11]

Meh



It's pretty wide.....and working saws are us....so I intend to keep the bottom ring.

I would love to move the pin though.



I bet you are right, and why I'll just epoxy one jug to test that theory.



I'm not planning on leaving the exhaust that low.....but 105° is as high as I "think" it really needs to go. But...to test its reaction to increased blowdown, I'll be doing 102° on one of them.




Yep....not a lot of meat above the port. Gotta remember the 661 though. 56mm bore. I take the exhaust way up on that saw. It loves blowdown.



Well.....I do.



They ain't playing around. Stihl has been doing their R&D.





Worse time for me to pick to do a thread fellas. I was up most of the night coughing. I'm not feeling so sporty today.

You should rest............

How was that cake?

 

[Mkinslow]

Get you a swallers of some good ole Tennessee shine and that cough will be done. [emoji6]

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[Mastermind]

You should rest............

How was that cake?

Really good.

Power is out. Bad storms coming. Probably gonna hunker down.

 

[Dub11]

Really good.

Power is out. Bad storms coming. Probably gonna hunker down.

We got a glancing blow from that yesterday. Most of the ice missed us.

 

[Mkinslow]

Really good.

Power is out. Bad storms coming. Probably gonna hunker down.

It's just hitting us here in Maury county. Pretty rough too. Still have power and all though which is rare. Need to be working on knives but trying to stay aware of what's going on here for now.

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[Mastermind]

Get you a swallers of some good ole Tennessee shine and that cough will be done. [emoji6]

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I used one of those high dollar asthma inhalers. Worked.....at about 2am I was finally able to sleep.

 

[Mkinslow]

I used one of those high dollar asthma inhalers. Worked.....at about 2am I was finally able to sleep.

My wife just got over an ordeal with bronchitis. She had to do inhaler and nebulizer treatments.

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[ferris]

[QUOTE="Mastermind, post: 992580, member: 4]

I'm not planning on leaving the exhaust that low.....but 105° is as high as I "think" it really needs to go. But...to test its reaction to increased blowdown, I'll be doing 102° on one of them.




Yep....not a lot of meat above the port. Gotta remember the 661 though. 56mm bore. I take the exhaust way up on that saw. It loves blowdown.
[/QUOTE]
Can someone explain what u mean with more or less blowdown?

 

[Mastermind]

Can someone explain what u mean with more or less blowdown?

Sure thing.

Blowdown time is how many degrees of crankshaft rotation from the point of exhaust port opening until the transfer ports begin to open.

 

[Mastermind]

My wife just got over an ordeal with bronchitis. She had to do inhaler and nebulizer treatments.

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We're all doomed to die from some illness that has mutated into something antibiotics won't touch.

 

[Catman]

A computer should tell us how much run time we have left! LOL

 

[Mkinslow]

We're all doomed to die from some illness that has mutated into something antibiotics won't touch.

Yeah and because sick a55 people want stay away from everyone else

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[Agent Smith]

We're all doomed to die from some illness that has mutated into something antibiotics won't touch.

No joke there. It's only a matter of time

 

[TreeLife]

We're all doomed to die from some illness that has mutated into something antibiotics won't touch.

Already exists. MRSA is very resilient to antibiotics and treatment :-(

 

[Mastermind]

Already exists. MRSA is very resilient to antibiotics and treatment :-(

My wife has MRSA. When she had her knee replacement surgery, the doc said about 80% of people swabbed for it in his area are positive. He thinks we will eventually build up an immunity to it.

 

[Mastermind]

I'm sorta surprised that there hasn't been more discussion about the transfer opening points....

 

[Mastermind]

So.....I ended up getting curious.



I took .047" off the base.



I'm gonna stack up the base gaskets and get the stock timing numbers.

 

[Mastermind]

Double checking my wheel....

 

[qurotro]

So.....I ended up getting curious.

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I took .047" off the base.

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I'm gonna stack up the base gaskets and get the stock timing numbers.

Are these rubber coated steel gaskets?