Oldfeller

so that's why their called the "green party". never going to be taken seriously,,, except maybe by a bunch of hippy stoners. "Up in Smoke"

I'm not sure about that,the effects and outcome of letting a shitload of immigrants into the country was fairly accurately predicted, but no fecker listened. and here we are.

sorry Stubby, you were closer before.

and that may well be the case, the future is unwritten.

aye right,, not like like that bastion of truth and common sense jeered by the people of Manchester today eh!

In view of recent developments regarding the shooting, maybe not tragically. but the fact remains if not for yet another deluded, indoctrinated nutjob, he would not have been required to even raise his gun, or even be there. the decisions he made may well have saved many lives, I'm sure he will be deeply sorry it was not at least one more.

nope, not rick parfitt.

good shout, that main vertical groove looks as if something shaved a chunk out the piston, surprised it never took the ring out, but the resultant debris would give results similar to this.

it's possible it's not all of the original parts, as you say it looks like it was thrown loosely back together. I had an old pioneer here that looks like it was ran on a mixture of fuel and gravel, that too showed little evidence of bottom end damage too. the black areas of the crank could be the heat treatment from the factory, or maybe a sign of severe overheating, which could have contributed to the resultant wreck. I would completely dismantle it and assess from there. if you got it cheap it could be made into a decent saw again with a little tlc and a few parts.

Was the air filter present and intact, I get a lot of cheap, often free saws that have just been used and chucked back in the shed for years with no maintenance whatsoever, this looks very much the case here. it didn't come from wales did it?