What's on your bench today?

[Bustergasket]

Slightly different but installing a limited slip diff into a gearbox, i was able to zip tie all three shafts together and lift out all the gears as one, just leaving the diff, i installed new bearings and bolts and set the preload, took just under an hour on the bench.

[spudulike]

Been working on saws for a while now and some that come in are in a filthy condition and don't understand why some people cant buy a £100 compressor to blow out the crap that builds up on these bits of kit. I have had two saws not idling due to the flywheel rubbing on crud around the coil, I have also had saws running very rich due to the air filter being pretty much choked with crud.

Working on clean saws is like a breath of fresh air and a damn site easier so......treat yourself to a small compressor - it may actually save you money in the long run!

[Sveriges]

The amount of 550/560s I have worked on where the cylinders and top cover are coated in sap and resin. All the operator needs to do is clean it at the end of the day 5 minutes if that! Then they wonder why they seize when the cooling fins and the like are coated and the thing can't breathe! But what do I know..

[peatff]

1 hour ago, Sveriges said:

The amount of 550/560s I have worked on where the cylinders and top cover are coated in sap and resin. All the operator needs to do is clean it at the end of the day 5 minutes if that! Then they wonder why they seize when the cooling fins and the like are coated and the thing can't breathe! But what do I know..

That's like this seized 044 I just did. It was full of greasy sawdust and the flywheel side needed a shovel to clean it out it was so full of something like soil you could hardly see the ignition coil, don't know what it had been cutting. Brake cleaner and air line then a paint brush to get in the corners and it looks like somebody loves it now.

[MattyF]

15 hours ago, spudulike said:

Been working on saws for a while now and some that come in are in a filthy condition and don't understand why some people cant buy a £100 compressor to blow out the crap that builds up on these bits of kit. I have had two saws not idling due to the flywheel rubbing on crud around the coil, I have also had saws running very rich due to the air filter being pretty much choked with crud.

Working on clean saws is like a breath of fresh air and a damn site easier so......treat yourself to a small compressor - it may actually save you money in the long run!

kill switch is very intermittent on my 150 so will check that.

I do try and send you clean saws ! Although usually broken.  

[Mick Dempsey]

My new sharpening aid, 15 odd quid from amazon.

[htb]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

My new sharpening aid, 15 odd quid from amazon.

Funny that I take my glasses off when I sharpen chains, Bi-focals are a bugger gives you neck ache

[spudulike]

Here is what I mean, one well used MS200T, don't think it has ever been cleaned, another face full of grease and chip Before and after images!

[MattyF]

You need a separate dish washer in your work shop,I bet the misses goes mad!

[Stubby]

That is outrageous Steve ! Hope you priced it accordingly 

Edited August 13, 2017 by Stubby