Hi Y'all........Messed Up Anything Lately?

[Mastermind]

Who's still having fun with these old chainsaw? :msp_tongue:

I ruined a brand spanking new 562XP jug a few days ago.......got me a new one from TK. Now I'm working late to get this saw done and sent home.

It's all good though......I like doing this stuff better than any other job I've had.

Who else has messed up something expensive lately? :msp_unsure:

I'll tell y'all how I trashed this jug......but first I wanna hear your tale. :msp_wink:

 

[barneyrb]

Not lately, hit a streak while back I thought of buying some Tannerite for the shop though.....

 

[mtrees]

Tannerite's cool!!

 

[Work Saw Collector]

Who's still having fun with these old chainsaw? :msp_tongue:

I ruined a brand spanking new 562XP jug a few days ago.......got me a new one from TK. Now I'm working late to get this saw done and sent home.

It's all good though......I like doing this stuff better than any other job I've had.

Who else has messed up something expensive lately? :msp_unsure:

I'll tell y'all how I trashed this jug......but first I wanna hear your tale. :msp_wink:

Not saw related but I hit a log in a hay field and ruined a gearbox on a disk mowing machine.

 

[splitpost]

Who's still having fun with these old chainsaw? :msp_tongue:

I ruined a brand spanking new 562XP jug a few days ago.......got me a new one from TK. Now I'm working late to get this saw done and sent home.

It's all good though......I like doing this stuff better than any other job I've had.

Who else has messed up something expensive lately? :msp_unsure:

I'll tell y'all how I trashed this jug......but first I wanna hear your tale. :msp_wink:

You know the rules, Pics or didn't happen

 

[Mastermind]

You know the rules, Pics or didn't happen

It's not something you can even see in a picture.......

 

[moody]

I had a "moment" when the bar oil cap came loose while making the video for that 350:msp_w00t: lucky for me my cousin saw the cap as I turned to start pullin noodles. So close call but no damage done other than you guys missed the mass of noodles being thrown.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Hmmmm,..I pulled the flywheel off the Stihl Contra Lightning and filed the points, got blue spark now.... Nope guess not!

 

[Mastermind]

This jug was cheap.........just 315.00 retail. :msp_unsure:


TK helped me out some though.

 

[Sclongrange]

Here is my latest bonehead move:

For all of you guys out there that want to know how to destroy a perfectly functioning behind the flywheel coil. First you decide that you just cannot sleep at night knowing that the small amount of crud behind the flywheel that you were not able to clean off during your cleaning/inspection process is still there. And, for that reason you must absolutely get that damn flywheel off so that you can remove the crud. New to this style of setup and still slightly confused as to where the coil is on this saw you notice the three small threaded holes in the face of the flywheel. You decide that the manufacturer must have put them there for you to put three screws into in order to advance those screws far enough to force the flywheel off the crank shaft. Perfect logic......so you proceed and the flywheel pops off. At that point you discover the location of what used to be a perfectly functioning coil but now has the plastic case cracked in three places and the copper coil exposed. At that point you decide to pull up the electronic version of the repair manual that you so diligently downloaded from this site to look thru for the first time and discover that had you done that 15 minutes earlier you would still have a perfectly functioning coil instead of a perfectly ruined one.

 

[wcorey]

Been building handicap vehicles for a living of late.
Some have a low effort steering system that runs 100 percent on the hydraulics,
so an electric/hydraulic backup pump is added in case of primary system failure.

My failure was in putting a check valve in backwards...
Blew a $200 cooler out, quarts of synthetic atf everywhere, hours of extra work.
Customer was scheduled to pick it up/train-to-drive the next day, from far away, had reservations to stay overnight, etc
Took three days to get the new cooler...

 

[splitpost]

It's not something you can even see in a picture.......

I've had that happen,grinding burr has taken a walk across the cylinder and ruined the plating,talk about mad

 

[Mastermind]

It's not something you can even see in a picture.......

Well you could if I was a really good picture taker........ :msp_rolleyes:

 

[Mastermind]

I've had that happen,grinding burr has taken a walk across the cylinder and ruined the plating,talk about mad

I had that part all done..... :msp_sad:

This was one of those........I can make it better bonehead moves.

 

[Mastermind]

Here is my latest bonehead move:

For all of you guys out there that want to know how to destroy a perfectly functioning behind the flywheel coil. First you decide that you just cannot sleep at night knowing that the small amount of crud behind the flywheel that you were not able to clean off during your cleaning/inspection process is still there. And, for that reason you must absolutely get that damn flywheel off so that you can remove the crud. New to this style of setup and still slightly confused as to where the coil is on this saw you notice the three small threaded holes in the face of the flywheel. You decide that the manufacturer must have put them there for you to put three screws into in order to advance those screws far enough to force the flywheel off the crank shaft. Perfect logic......so you proceed and the flywheel pops off. At that point you discover the location of what used to be a perfectly functioning coil but now has the plastic case cracked in three places and the copper coil exposed. At that point you decide to pull up the electronic version of the repair manual that you so diligently downloaded from this site to look thru for the first time and discover that had you done that 15 minutes earlier you would still have a perfectly functioning coil instead of a perfectly ruined one.

That's a good one. :msp_tongue:

 

[stihl sawing]

Last thing i did was take a carb off a honda mower and rebuilt it. put it back on and stripped out the bolt holes. No problem i'll rethread it. Too big of a tap and whamo.broke the ear off. Not gonna do nothing now. It's sitting in the yard collecting rain and dust. It was a POS anyway.

 

[stihl sawing]

Now that i think about it, i could keep this thread going a long time posting the crap i done screwed up.:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Work Saw Collector]

Now that i think about it, i could keep this thread going a long time posting the crap i done screwed up.:hmm3grin2orange:

Me too

 

[Mastermind]

Well I did add the "lately" for a reason. :msp_sad:

 

[hillwilliam]

I reamed out a carb for a 372 to 18.5mm not long ago. I've gone bigger on the same carbs, but I got into a little passage inside the venturi on that one. I've done quite a few carbs the same way, and it was the first one to give me trouble. It took me a lot longer than it should have to figure out why the saw was flooding. It ain't no Monkey-minded 372, I'm sure, but she's a strong runner now.