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Good to get the other half helping out with some of the manual work, reminds me of when the wife helped me lift some oak sleepers.....she went a strange purple colour!! And then there was lifting the double glazing up a ladder..........

Damn he one smart cookie!

I am not pushing for work, the opposite in fact, I am trying to take it easy but it seems most of the arb world have me in their contacts list! Anyway....you should be taking it easy!!

Looks like the offer in the post above your last one may be a nice one, sort of thing that this site is often good at.....sometimes!

One that missed me I think.....I do have a Cornish customer that said he was running a 42" bar on his spud ported 395, reckoned it pulled pretty well as well....it even impressed me!!

Bugger, it will never work again!!! I am now imagining Steve sitting at the kitchen table with bits of server all over it scratching his head!!!

My advice is to get a nice clean ORIGINAL example. I often see some nice saws come in and some right wrecks. The wrecks may cost £100-150 less but in most cases will never be half the saw that the nice ones will be or last as long and if you are going to own this saw, look after it and it is going to earn you a living.....£150 ain't a lot of £££ on the grand scheme of things! You are right to walk away from anything with a Cheap Chinese top end. I have just resurrected a seized MS230 for resale, I was tempted by the £20 top ends but then came to my senses and fitted a quality Hyway. The OEM ones would have made it scrap, the cheap ones would have made it homeowner at best, the Hyway kits are pretty good and it is now fit for Pro or Homeowner use and will last a few years or more! The typical eBay seller will be maximizing their profits and will fit the cheapest open port shyte kit they can find and not find the air leak that caused the original failure!!!

it is indeed!!

These saws use very close tolerances, far closer than Stihl can maintain in manufacturing so they run hotter and need far more oil to keep them running correctly.

I was fishing off Walton on The Naze pier and a Firecrest landed just next to me, waited a few minutes and then flew off.....not what you expect!

See, told you, the old one needed porting!! Not that I have ever overclocked a computer?!!!!

Your server needs overclocking, raise the FSB up a few MHz, overclock the CPU and do the GPU whilst at it. You will then need to turn your heating down?

Older saws are relatively easy to work on but the first few are always a learning curve! With the 357, it has crank stuffers which makes splitting and removing the crank shaft a little more difficult and the inlt boot isn't one of the easier ones to fit! All saws have there own little foibles but if you think about an issue enough and use a bit of aptitude and grey matter, anything is possible. Parts are OK to get hold of albeit Husqvarna parts can't ever be described as cheap! Plenty of people on here to bounce issues off!

I think many treat it as a bit of a joke but I find it far better than some of the tat out there!

Yup, very little used and lightly ported. Did some cutting with the grain, full 24" bar width, loads of grunt and it out cut a 394 a fair while ago...nice!

Ported 346XP Heavily Ported 357XP Ported 181SE

I have an old Army issue 181SE, very pokey on a 24"!!

Not a bad decision as these 3 series saws have quite a following and are robust units if looked after. Porting is like marmite, suits some and not others and is very much a personal choice. It means I finish reading the Saga magazine now?

Feck me, everyone you meet may be a carrier or "vector" as the medical guys call them so..the more people you meet, the more likely you are to get it, the more things you touch that others touch, the more likely you are to get it. If you get it, you may not be quite as medically tough as you thought you were. Bubbles, Tiers and all else is just clap trap mumbo jumbo.....use your BRAIN....logic and common sense is your friend!!! Hunker down, dig in until the vaccine does its job!! Another thread to block methinks!!

That's a German company for you, don't see the fact there is a market for them but wants to stop the silly customers getting what they want!!

Must have been a big air leak. I have seen it before but is unusual.

These brand new MS361s from non EU sources have strange cylinders, they are open transfer port (Like the MS34)1 rather than being closed like the original MS361. The rest looks pretty much the same.

Word of mouth is the best advertising. Worked for me....a bit too well at times!! Each customer can be your sales rep!!

I feel an experiment coming on?

I have seen a few saws have water in the fuel and it is indeed milky. If you put it in a clear container, the water will drop to the bottom of the container and be pretty obvious. Meths added to the fuel will absorb the water but too much and it is better to strip the carb and flush the tank.