spudulike
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No need, you have to be careful in the way you retighten the flywheel nut otherwise the flywheel will rotate slightly and the timing will go back to standard. The key just gives you the correct ignition timing, it doesn't hold the flywheel in place, the fit to the crankshaft and the nut does that. You also have to take down the correct side of the key otherwise you will retard the ignition timing.
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Yes it could but no idea where you would get a big bore kit for one but am sure someone has one in a shed somewhere. The big exhaust is a bit specialist, the expansion will need to be designed for the engine.
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That doesn't look too bad to me, Id give £100 for it all day. Pop the muffler off and take a look at the piston, if it is clean and if you are really lucky, machining marks then it is a good buy at anything under £200. Check the tanks and alloy parts for cracks. Worth putting fuel in both tanks to see if they leak.
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I have done 075/076 and an old Contra in the past, not too bad to work on and cant say they are an area where I have much knowledge although I own two vintage McCullochs I did service the carb and fuel lines on the 070 and got it running. I don't know much about the 070 - 090 hop up but believe it is possible. I usually say, vintage machines need to be serviced by their owners, there is usually 30 years of maintenance to do on them!
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Children - Get them to clean the chimneys.....or can't you do that now! I think general consensus is telling us that chainsaws aren't a major contributor to world pollution, not sure log burners are either! You have to hit the big figures to see a big impact! Imagine you are trying to reduce household expenditure, do you look at mortgage, motoring, heating, electric and water bills or look at your yearly expenditure on anchovies........well do you???
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On ebay they go for stupid money, seen them go for a few hundred but got one a couple of years ago for someone else for around £200 - it needed a top end! As you say, it is likely to need a raft of spares to make it good so offer what is fair and perhaps, if it is better than expected and you don't need to buy loads of spares, divert some £££ to the previous owner or buy him something you know he may like.......
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Should have kept the 200 but the MS150 is becoming a decent choice, got many customers doing most of their reductions with them after being ported to give them a bit more Va Va VOOM
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Judging by the latest raft of kit to arrive this week and all the local guys now coming to me, pretty much everybody else thinks so to!
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Its a bit like the Amazon ratings and trip advisor, you look for the products with a very positive 4 and 5 skew on the ratings. There is always the odd nutter that comes out of the woodwork slating something for obscure and bizarre reasons but if 80% of reviews are positive, the product or service must be half decent. The best way to gauge how good a business is, is how much repeat business the company gets, how many positive reviews it gets and also, how they respond if something goes wrong. With the internet, a bad business would now find it damn difficult to survive unless operating outside of the law! Never used Northern Arb so can't judge them!
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There he goes again
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Sounds like my days in sales where we were told by the German manufacturing part of our company that we would get product in 6 months. You get caught out once or twice but then just add 6-12 months and invariably, that was correct. Time will tell when the new product or products are available but until then, if you need a saw of a certain size, you have to look at what is available and in stock to make your choice....simple!
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Yes, ported saws are a bit different but I tend to tune them within 500rpm of the max to be safe. The spark plug colour has the final say!
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No, just pulling your leg
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I think you should buy one before telling him
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You did that on a 390XP
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Ah - won't be long - is that in the lifespan of the common Mayfly or the history of the earth?
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Bugger me - that's Matty F on a big lump of beech Nice evening out!
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I found burying the complete bar in woods like oak would do it. As others have said, turn up the oiler, you could try thinning the oil a bit if it is a bit gloopy and the weather is cold. There is only one oil pump on the IPL BUT two pump pistons, the one that should give more oil is the Australian spec -1122 647 0602 rather than the normal 1122 647 0601 UK/US version - you will need to strip the oil pump apart and fit the new piston but it may be an answer on the longer bars.
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I never realised chainsaws were such big polluters, I would have thought planes, trucks, cars and dodgy factories were as there are more of them and are running all the time they are in flight/on the road etc. I was always told to look at the big figures because in the big figures, there are easier gains to be made but what do I know. Looks like we will soon have loads of trees to do work on but nothing to cut them down with, perhaps harsh language would do it!
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I know that owning a Stihl 009 and a couple of vintage McCullochs, I was being tongue in cheek comparing the latest technology with the old vintage bangers but the same advantages! Obviously a bit too subtle.
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Like a reed valve then?
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Not that big bird that was flogging the burgers and coffee?
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Sounds like poop to me as well!
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Sounds like a reasonable Idea to me, may need to make up a stud with a plate on it or some sort of washer on the inside of the tank and bond it in to the hole with a bit of epoxy but may just work fine.
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Fortunately, the other 200 the guy has in was sweet, decent machine and now very nice!
