Porting The NE346XP

[Mastermind]

What year was that??
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2012

 

[Mastermind]

My 066 from that day.....

 

[Keith Gandy]

Your grinding looks very clean Keith.

Thanks man

 

[RI Chevy]

My 066 from that day.....

We need an updated 066 runoff.

 

[Mastermind]

We need an updated 066 runoff.

I'm up for that.

 

[jmssaws]

Just found this thread,good read and nice grinding Keith. I have only ported 1 346,it's mike Lee's that he left for me to play with. I can't remember exactly what it is but I think 104 122 78 I'm pretty sure about everything but the transfers.
It's running 13k in the wood here because Chris pa wanted to call me a liar but couldn't. Lol

 

[Mastermind]

His work is clean ain't Jason?

 

[RI Chevy]

I would also like to see some feedback on some long term testing. How well the ported saws have held up. See if they lost any compression or power. If so, how much. Things like that.
I don't expect anyone to pull their saws apart, just a little long term feedback. How well they stood up to a stock saw. Etc.

 

[jmssaws]

I would also like to see some feedback on some long term testing. How well the ported saws have held up. See if they lost any compression or power. If so, how much. Things like that.
I don't expect anyone to pull their saws apart, just a little long term feedback. How well they stood up to a stock saw. Etc.

I have truck loads of 660's running in the woods here,used and abused and lasting just fine. I doubt they last as long on average as a stock one but who knows.
There not the play saws I do threads on,there more mild but not by much.
Generally they die from the operators brain quits working.

 

[Mastermind]

I would also like to see some feedback on some long term testing. How well the ported saws have held up. See if they lost any compression or power. If so, how much. Things like that.
I don't expect anyone to pull their saws apart, just a little long term feedback. How well they stood up to a stock saw. Etc.

I send saws everywhere for real logging. I've had some saws fail after as little as 3 months, and some that live for many years. So much depends on the man pulling the trigger that it's hard to get feedback that truly pertains to the saw. I do see pro Stihl saws lasting longer in the woods than Huskys though.......

Zipping up my flame proof suit........NOW.

LMAO

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. True that. There are a lot of variables that come into play. Most always come back to the user.

 

[Keith Gandy]

Just found this thread,good read and nice grinding Keith. I have only ported 1 346,it's mike Lee's that he left for me to play with. I can't remember exactly what it is but I think 104 122 78 I'm pretty sure about everything but the transfers.
It's running 13k in the wood here because Chris pa wanted to call me a liar but couldn't. Lol

Thanks Jason

 

[Mastermind]

I have a 390XP in a box that suffered a crank failure. Three months in the woods as a falling saw. I have another 390XP that busted the cylinder flange after about a year. Then there was a MS461 the busted the jug after a year. Also a MS200T the broke the flange after several hundred hours of tree work. Saws fail.......

 

[RI Chevy]

That 346 was nice and smooth Jason!

 

[sunfish]

I'm still drooling over your knife building, how is it going?

Busier than I'd like to be, but no complaints. Thanks for asking, Mike.

 

[jmssaws]

I send saws everywhere for real logging. I've had some saws fail after as little as 3 months, and some that live for many years. So much depends

I have a 390XP in a box that suffered a crank failure. Three months in the woods as a falling saw. I have another 390XP that busted the cylinder flange after about a year. Then there was a MS461 the busted the jug after a year. Also a MS200T the broke the flange after several hundred hours of tree work. Saws fail.......

I've had 2 390's break the flange

 

[XP_Slinger]

Lol. True that. There are a lot of variables that come into play. Most always come back to the user.

Agreed. Modded saws need to be kept in tune more frequently. I've noticed this with my saws that were stock and are now running faster. I think stock saws are more forgiving to the absent minded user. How else could they have limiters on the jets and still have a saw last when it's being run in temps ranging from 20 to 90°F.?

 

[RI Chevy]

Off topic for a moment, very nice work sir. Real nice knives on your site.

 

[sunfish]

Off topic for a moment, very nice work sir. Real nice knives on your site.

Thank you!

 

[Mastermind]

If y'all wanna do a 066 build off we can do it at my GTG in Dec. Hell, I'm ok with hosting, and losing.