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[EFSM]

No tips other than practice. I have scored pistons in every size that I slide up into the bore repeatedly and look for symmetry. It’s difficult on the 2511 because of the 90° exhaust port

That was the method I arrived at too. But I never tried a 2511 due to that right angle port.

 

[Ketchup]

No tips other than practice. I have scored pistons in every size that I slide up into the bore repeatedly and look for symmetry. It’s difficult on the 2511 because of the 90° exhaust port

Bore scope helps. The stupid easy-start divot is the annoying thing.

 

[Ketchup]

As someone with no CNC experience, I would not feel satisfied with that. However, centering the exhaust roof is something I struggle perfecting to my satisfaction. Do you have any tips?

Drawing a center line helps.

 

[IffykidMn]

I've made lots of cookies but never ate one

Wrong kind of chips , my wife has made all kinds of cookies but never touched a chainsaw.

One day I will get the chance to have a sample your cookie recipe.

 

[ZERO]

For the newer members, let's not forget the previous outfit hyped by this individual only to be exposed here.

Once it cut into their bottom line, the famous father/son fist shaking video at our former mod.

 

[Dustin4185]

I liked his earlier videos before his channel took off now it seems like one big commercial for the latest gadget or whatever he is hocking for, can't say I blame him for trying to make a buck but to me it has diminished his credibility.

Perhaps one of my favorite YT BBR video is he visited an area(Midwest?) with some big hardwood and his get the gullet stand up and buck long bar and chain and saw more or less fell on their face once they hit hardwood, I found the expression on his face like this does not cut like doug fir hilarious.

Last time I took S212 recertification, there were several hotshots from “out west” that had been assigned to east TN. We were sharpening saws before the felling cut observations and they kept hitting their rakers……that didn’t work out too well here, especially when we started cutting some bigger oaks and hickories clearing a road ROW.

 

[Woodtroll]

For the newer members, let's not forget the previous outfit hyped by this individual only to be exposed here.

Once it cut into their bottom line, the famous father/son fist shaking video at our former mod.

As a newer member, would you care to expand on this, please?

 

[sawmikaze]

Lol...you guys actually watch this stuff ?...and then take it even remotely serious on top of that ?

 

[IffykidMn]

Lol...you guys actually watch this stuff ?...and then take it even remotely serious on top of that ?

I watch every once in a while, between the video and the comments it is usually pretty good for a few laughs.

 

[sawmikaze]

I watch every once in a while, between the video and the comments it is usually pretty good for a few laughs.

I'd feel like I was 13 standing in line at the mall with an issue of Teen Beat magazine waiting to get an autograph if I watched these people...I have to work, I don't have the time anyway.

People b!tch about these people and how corny they are....so don't watch them - problem solved. My least favorite thing about the time we live in is that no matter how retarded you are you can have a worldwide audience...and then an over inflated sense of self-importance because people equally as retarded participate. According to this piece of garbage phone I have the internet gets 14-21 minutes a day of my attention, I have no doubt I'm better off for it.

 

[EFSM]

I'd feel like I was 13 standing in line at the mall with an issue of Teen Beat magazine waiting to get an autograph if I watched these people...I have to work, I don't have the time anyway.

People b!tch about these people and how corny they are....so don't watch them - problem solved. My least favorite thing about the time we live in is that no matter how retarded you are you can have a worldwide audience...and then an over inflated sense of self-importance because people equally as retarded participate. According to this piece of garbage phone I have the internet gets 14-21 minutes a day of my attention, I have no doubt I'm better off for it.

How true. Tangent: I was listening to an interview where a podcast host was talking to a 19 year old boy that started testosterone and steroid therapy at age 14 due to “looksmaxing” influence from online forums. His goal is to be the best looking person, which he claims will guarantee wealth, fame, and social status. Now he has a double jaw cosmetic surgery scheduled to lengthen his jaws so he has a perfect facial profile and symmetry. He is also on meth as an appetite suppressant as well as a host of other street drugs he claims he can get off of at any time. The interviewer tried pointing out that fame, wealth, and status certainly don’t guarantee happiness, but this kid claimed that he’s never seen anyone that was happy and not outlandishly successful.
The online world absolutely screws children in every way when they are introduced too young. Maybe the Aussies are onto something for once.

 

[sawmikaze]

How true. Tangent: I was listening to an interview where a podcast host was talking to a 19 year old boy that started testosterone and steroid therapy at age 14 due to “looksmaxing” influence from online forums. His goal is to be the best looking person, which he claims will guarantee wealth, fame, and social status. Now he has a double jaw cosmetic surgery scheduled to lengthen his jaws so he has a perfect facial profile and symmetry. He is also on meth as an appetite suppressant as well as a host of other street drugs he claims he can get off of at any time. The interviewer tried pointing out that fame, wealth, and status certainly don’t guarantee happiness, but this kid claimed that he’s never seen anyone that was happy and not outlandishly successful.
The online world absolutely screws children in every way when they are introduced too young. Maybe the Aussies are onto something for once.

My first question is :

Who and what are his parents ? But I already know who and what they are.

I've said this before and I'll say it again...I am absolutely grateful my parents aren't making an ass of themselves and ultimately me on the internet everyday - thank god.

There is hardly a distinction from a 13 year old girl and a 50 year old "man" now. You know when you get that weird feeling in your stomach because you're embarrassed for someone else ? I get that with a lot of grown ass people.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

My first question is :

Who and what are his parents ? But I already know who and what they are.

I've said this before and I'll say it again...I am absolutely grateful my parents aren't making an ass of themselves and ultimately me on the internet everyday - thank god.

There is hardly a distinction from a 13 year old girl and a 50 year old "man" now. You know when you get that weird feeling in your stomach because you're embarrassed for someone else ? I get that with a lot of grown ass people.

I'm never gonna get over adult men wearing sleep wear in public! Or sweat pants ,unless you're leaving or going to the gym.
I don't really give a *s-word about what other people do, but shame seems like a thing of the past.

 

[EFSM]

My first question is :

Who and what are his parents ? But I already know who and what they are.

I've said this before and I'll say it again...I am absolutely grateful my parents aren't making an ass of themselves and ultimately me on the internet everyday - thank god.

There is hardly a distinction from a 13 year old girl and a 50 year old "man" now. You know when you get that weird feeling in your stomach because you're embarrassed for someone else ? I get that with a lot of grown ass people.

To go further down this tangent: I think his parents' biggest mistake was letting him access the internet unmonitored. They took away the steroids/hormones, but he just got more behind their backs. They definitely aren't the "affirming" type. Also, he practices "micro-fracturing" (basically hitting himself so hard that his bones break slightly and grow back stronger). He used to do this to his skull with a hammer, which his parents of course took away. It's unfortunate that the internet gives nut jobs like this a platform to both make money and indoctrinate others.

 

[South_Prairie_Saw]

Lol...you guys actually watch this stuff ?...and then take it even remotely serious on top of that ?

Chainsaw content on YouTube is tough while BBR isn’t all too far from my neck of the woods, there’s so much talking and not much else. Seems like an alright guy but yeah a little much for me. I do like Gordy’s channel as he has some variety and they just get down to it and cut. Lot of “influencer” types and they aren’t for me. YouTube is great, just have to find stuff worth watching but again, a lot of these guys have an ego

 

[Stump Shot]

Well, as far as the CNC part goes, I just happened to come across a vidja from another feller doing the same thing to the same saw. (seems to be trending) I was fairly curious on how the machine was set up and cut etc. compared to a lathe that's now old and obsolete, yeah right. Anyways, what I took notice of first was that the placement of the "index" tool was quite unique to me, in that it only took four points from the top of the bore in a cross pattern and four points from each corner of the base. The setup was off .005" on the base and reset itself to true the base up and line up the bore. Which is quite different from myself of aligning the bore and thus truing the band and base to the bore. To me it's kind of like a gunsmith doing an action job to the outside of the barrel and not the bore where it counts. Which kind of negates the accuracy claims of the machine if it's not used properly. So, at the end of the day, it all comes down to how you use it for it to be beneficial to a harmonious outcome.
It did do the exhaust port, not the transfers, those were done by hand as well as all the chamfering and polishing. Which probably took longer than the entire set up and marching combined in the CNC, so it is a time saver vs a lathe. It(the cnc) is also making parts all night being fed by a robotic arm to help make it pay, which is something I could never see doing with my "One at a timing".

Here's a vidja I did a couple years ago showing how I align the bore to cut the squish band. Y'all can decide for yourselves what you think is right.

 

[Sloughfoot]

Chainsaw content on YouTube is tough while BBR isn’t all too far from my neck of the woods, there’s so much talking and not much else. Seems like an alright guy but yeah a little much for me. I do like Gordy’s channel as he has some variety and they just get down to it and cut. Lot of “influencer” types and they aren’t for me. YouTube is great, just have to find stuff worth watching but again, a lot of these guys have an ego

The logging and treework businesses are much safer with BBR making videos, not dropping trees.

 

[South_Prairie_Saw]

Well, as far as the CNC part goes, I just happened to come across a vidja from another feller doing the same thing to the same saw. (seems to be trending) I was fairly curious on how the machine was set up and cut etc. compared to a lathe that's now old and obsolete, yeah right. Anyways, what I took notice of first was that the placement of the "index" tool was quite unique to me, in that it only took four points from the top of the bore in a cross pattern and four points from each corner of the base. The setup was off .005" on the base and reset itself to true the base up and line up the bore. Which is quite different from myself of aligning the bore and thus truing the band and base to the bore. To me it's kind of like a gunsmith doing an action job to the outside of the barrel and not the bore where it counts. Which kind of negates the accuracy claims of the machine if it's not used properly. So, at the end of the day, it all comes down to how you use it for it to be beneficial to a harmonious outcome.
It did do the exhaust port, not the transfers, those were done by hand as well as all the chamfering and polishing. Which probably took longer than the entire set up and marching combined in the CNC, so it is a time saver vs a lathe. It(the cnc) is also making parts all night being fed by a robotic arm to help make it pay, which is something I could never see doing with my "One at a timing".

Here's a vidja I did a couple years ago showing how I align the bore to cut the squish band. Y'all can decide for yourselves what you think is right.

I’d be curious to see this vid and the setup. While you’re 100% correct in dialing in the bore to be straight. Did they hit the base, or the holes for the screws? That would def create some problems if they’re going off a cast profile for precise location….

A CNC mill needs at least “zeros” in three directions. X and Y (bore centerline most likely) but I’d think that they’d have to pick up the holes in cylinder to help align it in the proper orientation. Z is depth. Not sure if they’re setting depth from the base or the band, depends on how it was programmed.

I should again say I’ve never ported cylinders or down saw work in a lathe. BUT I’ve spent 15 years in the CNC world and still work on the carbide side as of right now. I’d love to see it work but the machine is only as good as the person behind it

 

[Sloughfoot]

Well, as far as the CNC part goes, I just happened to come across a vidja from another feller doing the same thing to the same saw. (seems to be trending) I was fairly curious on how the machine was set up and cut etc. compared to a lathe that's now old and obsolete, yeah right. Anyways, what I took notice of first was that the placement of the "index" tool was quite unique to me, in that it only took four points from the top of the bore in a cross pattern and four points from each corner of the base. The setup was off .005" on the base and reset itself to true the base up and line up the bore. Which is quite different from myself of aligning the bore and thus truing the band and base to the bore. To me it's kind of like a gunsmith doing an action job to the outside of the barrel and not the bore where it counts. Which kind of negates the accuracy claims of the machine if it's not used properly. So, at the end of the day, it all comes down to how you use it for it to be beneficial to a harmonious outcome.
It did do the exhaust port, not the transfers, those were done by hand as well as all the chamfering and polishing. Which probably took longer than the entire set up and marching combined in the CNC, so it is a time saver vs a lathe. It(the cnc) is also making parts all night being fed by a robotic arm to help make it pay, which is something I could never see doing with my "One at a timing".

Here's a vidja I did a couple years ago showing how I align the bore to cut the squish band. Y'all can decide for yourselves what you think is right.

What's the indicator you use for that called?

 

[South_Prairie_Saw]

What's the indicator you use for that called?

Co-axial or for me it would be an Interapid 312-B