Fake or not?

[spudulike]

I have worked on a fake, it is very weird, everything is so much like a real one but it just isn't quite right......bit like walking up a similar high street in a similar town, sort of looks familiar but doesn't feel quite right.

 

The rubbers are too squidgy, the recoil spring is mega springy and thick, the impulse has a little clamp where it connects to the top of the crankcase, the plastic had sharper edges, the paint comes off with carb cleaner and the lack of "EM made in Sweden" on all parts!

 

I wasn't impressed with the fitting around the seals and main bearings!

 

My opinion - it ran OK but would die in a week or so in forestry or hard arb use!

[7610]

You're the guy I'd listen to. Good way to describe it.

[SawTroll]

  aswales said:

Do the fakes have the metal tag husqvarna data plate ?

 

The fakes that are attempts to copy a specific Husly model do - but they make mistakes there as well as elsewhere on the saws (or at least used to do).

[SawTroll]

A problem with posting about how to tell the fakes apart from the originals is that it helps the fakers make the next batch of copies look closer to the originals. We must assume that they have people monitoring threads like this.

[Richard 1234]

  SawTroll said:

A problem with posting about how to tell the fakes apart from the originals is that it helps the fakers make the next batch of copies look closer to the originals. We must assume that they have people monitoring threads like this.

 

 

Maybe but they only need buy one to really see what they look like.

It makes me wonder why they are not perfect at least to look at!

[SawTroll]

  Richard 1234 said:

.... It makes me wonder why they are not perfect at least to look at!

 

Likely a matter of need (as they define it) vs. effort.

 

Regardless what they do, they can't expect a 100% success rate at fooling people, so it may be a matter of what is "good enough" at different levels in the distribution chain.

[Richard 1234]

  SawTroll said:

Likely a matter of need (as they define it) vs. effort.

 

Regardless what they do, they can't expect a 100% success rate at fooling people, so it may be a matter of what is "good enough" at different levels in the distribution chain.

 

 

Yes maybe.

I lived in china some years ago. I went to a factory with a friend out there they were making fake callaway golf clubs. You could not tell the difference looking at them. I don't think they played quite as well but it makes you wonder

 

 

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[joejoe]

I work in a garage who supply craftop saws. The ones we have are a replica of the husky 61, it's a great saws uses solid parts

[Stubby]

If eventually they made the saw exactly the same as the original in every respect then they could charge the same as an original .........

[dan494]

  Stubby said:

If eventually they made the saw exactly the same as the original in every respect then they could charge the same as an original .........

There's not much stopping them. All of stihls stuff is already made in their factory in China so they only need copy the tooling and start production. There's no copyright enforcement over there either. Hopefully they get schematics to knock up a few 020t's!!

 

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