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My wife likes the movie Christmas Card. It's about a family that owns and operates a sawmill and sells Christmas trees. The funny set of scenes is the crew setting up to go cut trees and putting a couple of saws on the truck. When they get in the field to cut trees, there are two totally...

The long chips can only be made when cutting along the grain of a log. There's no way that I can think of to produce them in a pure crosscut situation with typical wood types.

Your assumption is bass-ackwards. The "40" or "50" numbers are the "parts" of gasoline to 1 "part" of oil. You would need to add gasoline (NOT oil) to go from a 40:1 ratio to a 50:1 ratio.

Assuming there's enough stock for the larger hole that's required, HeliCoil repairs are quite often far better than the original threads in aluminum. I had an old 10HP snowblower (Tecumseh Snow-King engine) that frequently had loose muffler bolts. The threads in the aluminum block were galled...

That's what I was assuming. Thanks for the confirmation.

Bear in mind that I've lost a lot of my upper body strength (almost 70 years old and never was athletic) so trying to hold the saw body and yank the cord on a bench isn't the easiest thing for me. I was able to get to 120PSI pretty quickly and it felt like it would do significantly more if I...

The only reason I wanted to measure the compression is just for a "benchmark" for the future but mostly for curiosity. I have no complaints about how the saw starts and runs. Thanks.

I don't have any problems with the saw. I simply want to know how to crank the unit enough to get the maximum compression pressure that it would generate. I cannot hold the saw body with one hand and pull the cord very well against the compression with the other. With my age, I am losing some...

I have and use a DTI-20K tachometer. It's a great little non-contact tachometer that works on a variety of spark-ignited engine types and will display up to 19,900 RPM.

I need a service manual for my MS200T (purchased new Sept 2004). Many thanks in advance.

That makes sense. At the very least, I figure I can take readings now while the saws are performing really well to use as a benchmark for comparison if they start to not run so well. I can easily understand this stuff as I spent 39 years in the industrial process controls business where...

I just looked and yes, there is an in-line Schrader valve at the end of the hose (in addition to the pressure release valve I described). I had not seen it because it's in the primary hose that connects to the gauge and my adapter for the correct spark plug thread screws onto the primary hose...

There is a valve, but it does not work quite as you've described. I can press the little button on the Schrader valve's stem to release the captured gas (normally air, of course) under pressure (in the gauge, hose, and engine cylinder) but the gas does not go through the valve like it does...

I'd like to know the recommended way to test compression in my MS200T (and in my MS361). I pulled the plug and screwed in the adaptor and hose for my compression tester and pulled the starter cord a few times. I got up to 120PSI and suspect that I could have read higher pressures but I simply...

I need an IPL for the Stihl MS361. Would appreciate any help. Skip

I own and like the TECH-TACH TT-20K which is available via this web site by Design Technology Inc..

I also think this new configuration is very much a degrading move for the forum. For one thing, the normal vBulletin navigation tools are missing and the replacement really sucks in that it does not have the current forum as the default so you can start at the top of the current forum by...

I also think this new configuration is very much a degrading move for the forum. For one thing, the normal vBulletin navigation tools are missing. It appears that the title page for posts takes more vertical space than before for each post. For another, the HUGE avatars and the...

That sounds like a great way to make a huge mess. The problem is that once the wax is warmed up, it will be slung all over the place by the centrifugal force created by the spinning grinding wheel.

I found the TECH-TACH TT-20K by Design Technology, Inc. to be just what I needed. You can see or buy it at this web site.