TJ the Chainsaw Mechanic
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- Jan 7, 2016
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- Next to my bench at the shop, Oregon
85% together 044 that I did a full rebuild on.
If I lived closer our daughters would have every piece of metal ground, welded, ported... I nevery thought that daughters could be so cool.More cleaning and showing my oldest the degree wheel & angles! She was to layout and cut some angles.
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Seems like the guy in the pics is doing all the work.Had to trade my bench and work on saw horses past two satrdays. Been building covered patio for a guy. Put in 11hrs yesterday and feel it this am. Got to make extra cash to support new baby and buy more saws.
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AR least y pi u have your priorities straight. Turkey hunting. ..Yeah it should look better tomorrow. Trying to get some stuff done while juggling turkey hunting and my real job. Also have a ATV to repair and more saws waiting.
Somebody's got to work the camera. These guys get hostile without pics posted.Seems like the guy in the pics is doing all the work.
What do you have going on there Mike?
Stihl 034 super
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It had problems and I found the root cause.
It had a small hole in the intake boot
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The owner had been running it like this and it had sucked a lot of crap into the motor.
Top of the cylinder was coated with chunky burnt bits and the piston was scored front and back.
I managed to save the cylinder. Just a couple very small score marks above the exhaust port but it will live.
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Perhaps his chain sharpening skills need some work too.
This is the 2nd time I have come across a chain that was beveled down on the top edge.
There is no way it would cut.
The saw came with 12 old chains and a couple old bars. All the chains are filed the same and the bars show signs of being forced so hard the chain has spread the edges of the chain slot outwards.
The chain on it is missing several teeth too.
The saw has been hot, the bearings were cooked, crank seals were hard and brittle, chain break cover is melted, rubber bar oil line was so hard it snapped like a twig,
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I hope one of those chains is for your ms660.
I hope one of those chains is for your ms660.
Oh, have you had a chance to play with your ms660 yet?
It looks like a nice clean unit