I"m not being clever or anything, but wrist pin sizes are what they are. The clips should have some spring to them… after all that’s what keeps them in there place when they are travelling at wot 13k or so, and then change direction every 35mm or whatever your stroke is, that’s when it counts..
so I’m happy to reuse clips when I feel it’s ok. But when there’s blueing on the crank pin and it’s a lean seizure… I just may opt for new oem….you know heat and what it does to metal..
I think everyone is different, given different situations, and the Internet makes us miles apart, and you can’t see or touch my parts that I'm playing with
so if I could reuse oem clips over meteor I would, but if I was suspect about reusing oem clips…I’d have a choice to make.. that would be offered to the persons saw I was fixing. Or if it was my own it’s my choice.
but in short, meteor clips get the ears cut off…as.it’s extra weight at the stops-start bit that can fuk them. And you don’t really need them on stihls