Majorpayne
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just bought a new in box cs600p on ebay for 385. and 25. for shipping!
You should think about getting it ported, you will be happy you did.
just bought a new in box cs600p on ebay for 385. and 25. for shipping!
Hopefully neither, as the price is too close to some real saws....:alien2:
Sawtroll, we dang sure agree on this one and I'm now involved with a Echo/Stihl/Shindawia dealer, I was really excited about the 500P until I ran our first one, out of the box they are set at 11,800, they have lowered the compression ratio down to 5:1 on some of their saws, not even in the ball park with a 346 or 261, just disappointed, they are the first brand you see when you walk in our store and they get out sold 10:1 can't hardly resell the dang things used, have a cream puff one owner 510 the saw prolly don't have 20 hours on it, an elderly man bought it for an ice storm clean up a couple years ago and brought it in for us to buy, we can't even get 250.00 for it with a couple new chains, the saw looks new, I'd ten times rather have an old 302 echo, when Echo was a real saw, we carry the line mainly for Shinny trimmers, and a few accounts buy Echo trimmers some of which are rather good, but I thought we were going to see a real increase in performance with the merger, then you see the brand whored on the internet at or below our dealer cost and know they have gone to the big boxes. I agree with you 100% spend a few more bucks and buy a real saw, you ought to try getting warranty approval out of them, it is a joke compared to Stihl.
From reports on here the CS500 runs real close to a 346xp dolmar 5100 with the 261 being a bit stronger, I'd like to se your bs 5:1 compression on a spec sheet. Also when dealer push junk homeowner Stihl saws they get sold more. Steve
CS500p, It's a lot lighter than the Makita above and I think list price on the CS500p is $469, still hoping for some new ones to show up on Ebay for $350 or so. Steve
Troll, you know nothing about Echo saws.. I'd go with the CS500p, It's a lot lighter than the Makita above and is the lightest decent 50cc made unless the new Husky 550 is as light. I think list price on the CS500p is $469, still hoping for some new ones to show up on Ebay for $350 or so. Steve
Troll Explain why a CS500 cuts right with or maybe a HAIR slower than the best Stihl and Husky 50cc saws. And is lighter and handles better. I'd guess the KW HP tranlation got mixed up, more like 2.8 kw 3.75 hp that would make SENCE. Steve
From reports on here the CS500 runs real close to a 346xp dolmar 5100 with the 261 being a bit stronger, I'd like to se your bs 5:1 compression on a spec sheet. Also when dealer push junk homeowner Stihl saws they get sold more. Steve
Troll Explain why a CS500 cuts right with or maybe a HAIR slower than the best Stihl and Husky 50cc saws. And is lighter and handles better. I'd guess the KW HP tranlation got mixed up, more like 2.8 kw 3.75 hp that would make SENCE. Steve
Sawtroll, we dang sure agree on this one....
That has happened before, even though you may not have notised, and it surely will happen again!
There was an Aussie Echo site that used to post the hp numbers as KW ones, and then multiply them once again with 1.36 to make "new" hp numbers (that site was once liked up here, and may have mislead some to believe Echo saws make decent power). I'm very sure that the specs on the UK Echo site isn't a mix-up (the other way, like you suggested). If you look closely at the porting of Echo saws, it becomes very obvious that they can't make really decent power - and that is of course the reason that they don't post any power specs on most of their web-sites.
Run one then tell us what you think of it.
I'm just curious, have you ran a 500p?
I run a 500p when time allwos 18 inch bar and the thing screams. All I have done is open up the muffler and richened it up a touch. Was spinning at 12000rpm in the summer hopping it picks up a little bit come this winter. I have never run the stihl of husky but for a firewood saw my 500 works for me.
Run one then tell us what you think of it.
There was an Aussie Echo site that used to post the hp numbers as KW ones, and then multiply them once again with 1.36 to make "new" hp numbers (that site was once liked up here, and may have mislead some to believe Echo saws make decent power). I'm very sure that the specs on the UK Echo site isn't a mix-up (the other way, like you suggested). If you look closely at the porting of Echo saws, it becomes very obvious that they can't make really decent power - and that is of course the reason that they don't post any power specs on most of their web-sites.
Run one then tell us what you think of it.
I'm just curious, have you ran a 500p?
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