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A friend backed into his MS261 and wants me to fix it. Unfortunately some parts from Stihl are backordered with no expected available date. I'm looking for a 261 parts saw with good plastics. The fuel tank is intact but I need most of the other plastic pieces (loop handle, top cover, carb/master...

Anyone know when the new Speedcut nano .325 .043 kits will be released? Saw it on the battery T536lixp at TCI Expo last year and really want it for mine. 3/8lopro sucks! Rep said they will have sprockets for common saws in addition to the bars and chain.

Looking for a ignition to fix my buddy's Husqvarna 359. Used is fine as long as it's good.

I tore down a buddy's 200T far enough to replace the crank seals and pressure test. I installed aftermarket metal rimmed seals. They went in well. Oiled bearings, seal surface. Put it all back together and now it's very stiff to turn over. Turned fine before. Put oil in the piston, no...

I've got a 661 I'm working on. P&C got destroyed, and I may have found the reason why. I took the P&C off, and the crankshaft is rough to turn by hand and nearly impossible with the starter. It's good for about 2/3 of the rotation but 1/3 is rough and hard hard to turn through. Flywheel isn't...

I put a new cylinder and piston kit on a MS661C. One of the rings is binding so I need to take it back off to see what's going on. Trouble is, I used blue loctite (never doing that again) on the cylinder screws and now three of them won't come out. I tried a soldering iron and then a small torch...

I tried out my new gauge yesterday and it showed 30psi on a 661 with a scored c&p which sounded about right. Today I tried it on two 200ts with new pistons we got from lone wolf and it was only reading 120psi versus the 160psi on his US Gauge brand. Anyone else had an inaccurate otc gauge? I'm...

I've got an odd problem with a 201TC Mtronic. I replaced the C&P with a Meteor kit a few weeks ago after it got straight gassed. Another climber used it for a few weeks without issues then he told me it would die or not rev up after use of a few minutes. I tried it, ran perfectly making cuts for...

Company I work for recently got a lightly used 3120. It ran fine when we got it after I adjusted the L for the higher altitude. After a few uses it now run so rich it dies, floods and cannot restart. I was thinking it could be the metering needle. I pulled it and looked at it, nothing obviously...

I've got a problem MS461 carb. The choke does not return to open on its own like it should when the master switch is set off choke. I looked at another 461 to compare and this one the rod that goes through the carb body is much harder to turn than it should be and the spring is not strong enough...

One of our 461s is very difficult to start due to extremely high compression. Decomp valve pops right back out even though it hasn't fired. I took the sparkplug out and it turns over easily. My coworker thinks soaking some decarbonizer in the cylinder is the first thing we should try. We run...

I was gone on vacation at the time but during a windstorm an ember from the chimney lit my over two cords of firewood on fire. My roommate noticed it when he got up in the morning and seeing a garden hose wasn't going to put it out called 911. Winds were over 50mph, with the second highest gust...

I'm sure this has been answered before but I couldn't find it in a search. I'm assuming it has to do with manufacturing laminate bars but I don't know. Here's a 20" Oregon prolite to show what I'm talking about. I was using my 201T the other day on some brush and a stick went through the hole...

My coworker Dan taught me how to make ultraslings and eyesplice double braid this weekend. Here's my handywork

The saw was running fine a week and a half ago before I took it apart to replace the oiler worm gear. I got the part today and put it back together. First pull it fires once and then nothing. I pull the plug and grounded it on the cylinder to see for spark and I see nothing. Tried a new spark...

Today I built a custom head for a pole saw. I modified a Phoenix head with adapter from Spyderman. Problems with the stock head are loose attachment of the casting to the adapter and excessive weight. I had shimmed pieces of aluminum can between the adapter and head, but they worked themselves...

How do you guys deal with crews and individuals losing equipment? I've only been working at this company a year and I'm amazed at how many cleanup tools go missing. We've had several chainsaws go missing lately too. The new climber's only been here about a week and he lost his 201T already. It...

I want to get a grinder to sharpen chains for our tree service. I'm thinking volume will be about 15 chains a week. We have an Oregon discount so I think we'll be going with that make. Oregon came out with new models in 2015 so all the threads I could find referenced or recommended models or...

To my knowledge there's no rack in production designed for arborist rigging, but another climber and I have noted that it would be great to have a big rappel rack since it wouldn't twist the rope like a portawrap. The CMI racks are strong, with the MBS of the strongest at 19,000lbs (84.5kN) but...