Been running that 14" setup on my ms250 since last winter. I'm pretty happy with it.
FarmerTec Huztl MS180/250 Complete Chainsaw Kit
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I thought I had posted this here, but I have not. This kit was not like anything i have ever put together. Then the recoil would not work I decided I had put enough work into the saw and i wanted a small saw. So I started shopping and found a great deal on a pawn saw. The cylinder was good but it did have a coating of carbon on the exhaust port and the fuel system was badly damaged from bad fuel. I took the kit and used it to rebuild the Stihl 025 and could not be happier. I still have very little in it because i made sure the pawn shop knew what they were selling. So I had fun again but with very little frustration this time.
This pawn find ran great and it then it did not. Anytime you have a situation like that you guess a lot. Turns out it was all gunked up inside. The best I can tell it was a mixture of dirt and sawdust and oily fuel with another large cache of stink bugs. It got hard to start. Gunk was blowing up and blocking the impulse. I cracked it open this afternoon and yes that was it. I was cleaning it and it dawned on me to show you. I had already removed a large amount with one of the dental scrapers. You can still see where i was pulling it out of the hole. That's hard to figure out from outside the engine. The bearing and everything was coated in a cement like coating. Repair parts ordered
That’s crazy
I don't think I've ever seen holes in that plate before. It's aluminum so it couldn't have rusted through..
I knew I’ve seen that white cement crud before. One of 2 things in my opinion happened. High content of ethanol & it sucks in moisture & messes up anything metal. The other is saw was in a flood. I’ve seen that also. Just my thoughts. Ethanol is what I’m thinking. It will eat up aluminum quick.
That's in line with my guess. Dirt saw dust and crappy fuel. I am really glad I caught that. New piston and then melt down would have suxed.
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Yes. Glad ya caught that. Usually I just scrape bit now I’ll do the light.
A lot of people still using ethanol in their mix, I quit using that garbage years ago...
Me too. It’s terrible crap.
The fuel line was like stretch armstrong so I know ethanol was used. It is fed av100 now. As clean a fuel as motomix, same type fuel, except of course the small amount of lead that acts as a lubricant. It was just too far gone I guess. Piston came in today but they shorted me a circlip. Look forward to getting it running again.
The cylinder cleaned up beautifully. So that was not sand in the mix like I guessed.
http://thechainsawkitguy.com Kit info
The cylinder cleaned up beautifully. So that was not sand in the mix like I guessed.
http://thechainsawkitguy.com Kit info
Matt Hogden
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Don't waste your money on Huztl/farmertec lads. It's rubbish
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I haven’t ran the av100 before. What’s the price of it?
