The Death of a Saw (and I'm a Dick)

[drf256]

Calamari?


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Yup

 

[drf256]

Lesson learned. Oem or Meteor only.

Again, I believed it to be an oem piston.

 

[Onan18]

Yup

I'm coming to your house for dinner.

 

[drf256]

So a jug and 5 hours of work down the drain. All to save $40.

 

[Onan18]

So a jug and 5 hours of work down the drain. All to save $40.

Can't like this post.

 

[paragonbuilder]

That blows my mind... completely different thicknesses.
does the inside of the piston have any markings?

 

[RI Chevy]

Sorry to hear Al. All your hard work for naught.
We never really learn when everything goes right, only when we make little mistakes. Important lesson learned.

 

[cus_deluxe]

Thats a bummer al


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[Definitive Dave]

That sucks so much.

 

[Mastermind]

It's gonna happen. Even with all OEM parts, it's still gonna happen. Just part of the power game. Fix it and move on.

I built a 372 a few years ago that I sold to a member. I built it from a box of parts. I ran for a few hours then came unglued. All I could figure was it had a piece of debris wedged in the air filter pleats. So, I redid it, sent it back.....a month later it broke a ring. So.....I redid it again. Three months later it came back again.

This time I just bought it back.

Luckily, the muffler had just came loose, so it was sounding odd.

I nicknamed that saw Ol Reliable.

 

[malk315]

Al I'm sending April and Jil to give you a 2 hour back rub...

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[exSW]

I've been checking rings closer lately. Some manufacturers use a shallower ring groove. So the 49x1.5 x ? that you bought won't go.

 

[Isaac]

Man I love that stuff. This past Friday the wife and myself split an appetizer of fried calamari and an antipasto salad.


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[drf256]

It's gonna happen. Even with all OEM parts, it's still gonna happen. Just part of the power game. Fix it and move on.

I built a 372 a few years ago that I sold to a member. I built it from a box of parts. I ran for a few hours then came unglued. All I could figure was it had a piece of debris wedged in the air filter pleats. So, I redid it, sent it back.....a month later it broke a ring. So.....I redid it again. Three months later it came back again.

This time I just bought it back.

Luckily, the muffler had just came loose, so it was sounding odd.

I nicknamed that saw Ol Reliable.

It's gonna happen. Coulda gone better, but coulda gone much much worse.

This saw is for my pal @MustangMike

Happier it went on me than while he was using it.

I posted it as a learning point.

 

[drf256]

Al I'm sending April and Jil to give you a 2 hour back rub...

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[Mastermind]

Like Jeff said......we all learn more when things go wrong. Thank you for sharing my friend.

 

[RI Chevy]

So what's next? New piston and jug? You ever use both a meteor piston and meteor cylinder?

 

[drf256]

Next is an OEM piston.

New jug. This ones junk now.

What do u think of the wash pattern?

 

[huskihl]

So what was the problem? Did something on the AM piston fail? I thought there would be a chunk out of it or something. Or was it the 1.2mm rings on a 1.5mm piston? Not sure what happened is all

 

[paragonbuilder]

Next is an OEM piston.

New jug. This ones junk now.

What do u think of the wash pattern?

Wash pattern looks great to me. Symmetrical but slightly offset. Any reason it's offset on this jug?