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  1. heyduke

    oregon grinder - setting depth gauges - a video

    a few weeks ago i posted a vid on sharpening with the oregon grinder. this is part 2, lowering depth gauges. you can save a lot of time using a grinder, especially if the chain was damaged so a lot of metal has to come off the depth gauges. also you can grind the tops of the rakers to the...
  2. heyduke

    how to sharpen with Oregon/Tecomec grinder , a video

    Over the years I've seen quite a few questions here about how to sharpen a chain and how to operate a grinder. The last one I saw a few weeks ago made me resolve to make a vid. This is just covers the basics and some of you hombres will likely have suggestions. I hope to start on part B, depth...
  3. heyduke

    poulan pro 5020 clutch cover mod

    it never fails. i remove the chain to sharpen it, or replace the clutch drum with the echo 3900 rim type, and when i bolt it all up and wipe it off with a rag, i look over and there is the outer plate for the clutch cover sitting on my bench. yeah, they put a nice cast aluminum cover on this saw...
  4. heyduke

    husqvarna 575/576 strato musings

    we were on page umpteen of a thread about some vaporware known as the husqvarna 590. i mentioned that i think i understand husqvarna/remax strato toechnology fairly well but whenever i sit down and meditate on a 575 piston, i just need to flip the cap on a cold ipa. chris-pa was kind enuff to...
  5. heyduke

    echo cs-670 6700 and 8000 oil pump gear, remove and install video

    I've seen some recent interest in theses big Echos. Older ones have plastic clutch drum driven gears, newer ones bronze gears pressed onto the crankshaft (full time oiling.) the older plastic gears do deteriorate but can be retro fitted with the newer bronze drive gears. These are great saws...
  6. heyduke

    Poulan Pro 5020, sharpening vanguard chain - with vid

    Earlier this spring, Tractor Supply had pp5020's on sale. I'd read modifiedmark's thread on this and was curious so i sunk the $170 required. i've kept it totally stock except for carb tuning. Recently I had to sharpen the chain after giving it some use. The depth gauges on this safety chain are...
  7. heyduke

    stihl series type 1166

    Picked up a stihl basket case this morning. The fuel tank looks like an 038, with the choke lever that pushes on an air filter (air filter is missing.) the arm that holds the choke linkage is broken, like most 038's, the clutch drum part number starts with 1125 which would indicate 034/036/360...
  8. heyduke

    a job from hell

    from today's "the guardian." this has to be the ultimate froo-froo trimming job. j.k. rawlings, the harry potter author, has a thirty foot hedge of leyland cyprus (grows three feet per year) around her estate. it made international news because the job has brought traffic in edinburough to a...
  9. heyduke

    personal computer as a tachometer

    thanks to Chris-PA for inspiring this. the idea of using a video or audio file to examine and evaluate performance of a 2stroke engine fired me up. yes, i have a wireless tach that i use in the shop, but its hard to quantify performance of a saw in the field. what rpm does it turn in the cut...
  10. heyduke

    Echo 330/360t improving air intake, time cuts comparison

    You buy a new Echo 330t or 360t, the first thing you do is fix the muffler and retune. However, I've heard for some time that there was more to be gained on the intake side. Many thanks to bikemike for articulating how to proceed and where to look. Here's what the airfilter looks like: here's...
  11. heyduke

    poulan 3800 manual oil pump

    i'm rebuilding the oil pump on on a poulan 3800. i've got a new diaphagm and an o-ring for the manual pump. i'm having problems removing the red oil pum cap from the top of the pump. what's the correct method?
  12. heyduke

    Bills Saw Shop

    I've been using the Bill's Saw Shop web site for many summers. They have spread sheets with specifications and tuning data for most Stihl and Husqvarna saws. I tried to hit them yesterday and again today but got an "Error 404," meaing their server is unavailable. They're located in Salamanca...
  13. heyduke

    makita 84cc big bore over heating ignition module

    i bought this saw a few years ago and installed the nwp 84cc top end on it. it was my second one. i took it on a few jobs and it would always start easily first time in the morning but when you let off the throttle after the first cut, it would die and wouldn't restart until after it had cooled...
  14. heyduke

    d176 Guide Bars

    I've been looking around for D176 guide bars. It's not that they're really hard to find. They just tend to be expensive and hard to find in a 20" length. Oregons tend to be over $50 and an Oregon with "Echo" painted on it runs close to $80. So I was encouraged when i found a 20"x3/8" bar that...
  15. heyduke

    is this efco yet another echo cs-3000?

    i was surfing when an ad for this efco top handle turned up. it sure looks like an echo cs-3000 top handle, a venerable design from the 1980's, with the front mounted carb and reed valve. the on/off switch and controls look the same too. someone tell me it isn't true.
  16. heyduke

    bay area storm damage

    here's the reason god made 3120's. san jose, ca.
  17. heyduke

    cherry echo cs 60 s

    First of all, let me apologize to the Saw Troll for obvious reasons and to everyone else for posting yet another lookie what I got this Saturday at the garage sale. I'm only doing it because of the remarkable condition of the 40 year old saw. The story, checking Craigslist this morning I saw a...
  18. heyduke

    Let's see your firewood pictures

    It's that time of year again. Winter's coming fast. Are you cutting firewood? Do you pack a camera with your 038? We always arrive before dawn. We tend to follow the thinning crews. location is the San Nacimiento Mountains, 8000 feet. Trees are scrub oak, cedar, ponderosa pine and spruce, wild...
  19. heyduke

    Stihl fs250 carb

    Ok, this is a weed whacker, not a chainsaw but, it's an interesting problem. The fs250 is a weedwhacker on 'rhoids and great to use when you have a large area that needs attention. The problem was when it started up for the first time this year it wouldn't even run at half throttle, idled fine...
  20. heyduke

    new life for an old stihl

    hope everyone is having a good memorial day weekend. here's a picture found while cleaning family graves. in a little unnamed town in northern new mexico. the grave was freshly dug. the saw is an 031av.
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