Adamam

Used to be black back handle for home user, orange for farmer and white for 'pro'. These days they seem to stick to it less rigidly. The ms280 (home/farm) has a white handle for example.

Meteor is the most consistent aftermarket piston brand, although their cylinders seem less universally rated. Italian made. I've used two Meteor pots (372 and 260 or 036 IIRC) and both have been very good. Any number of Meteor pistons, all of which have been great. The only other cylinder name that seems to correlate with an actual 'brand' rather than just being a random name ('supersaws'/'lightening parts' etc) on a nameless Chinese part is 'Huztl' although that's Chinese too. They seem to be regarded as being reasonable. Episan also good for pistons. Cheaper pots on the whole are less likely to be sh*tty than cheaper pistons, at least compression-wise. Have rebuilt various saws with cheap pots and Meteor pistons, all of which have shown good compression. Cheap piston with cheap pots have never shown good compression when I've tried them.

The 365 has some sort of baffle installed in the cylinder restricting the transfer ports. Other than that they are the same AFAIK. The 365 can be turned into a 372 by grinding out the baffles; covered all over the net. I've turned a 365 into a 372 with zero issues, albeit the non-X torq version. I believe the x-torq version follows the same pattern as far as the bottom end being identical. The non-X torq versions have different carbs, but presumably the x-torq versions don't even have that difference!

Wouldn't that depend entirely on whether you measure 'failing and weakness' and 'success' by bank balance? What about contribution to society and the betterment of the nation? It's ironic that those who loudly rally to the call of patriotism are usually the same that have little or no interest in 'the nation'; welfare/education/health etc. Individual wealth at the (literal) cost of society (eg tax benefits enabling low wages) is absolutely unpatriotic. With few exceptions big money has exactly the same attitude as dole scroungers; take everything, give nothing. Ask almost anybody if they could avoid paying tax and they'll say 'yes! of course'! What is a nation without a shared aim and shared benefits? Just a land mass. This country is far down the road of being millions of suspicious individuals stealing from their neighbours. Those who fought in WW2 and went on to form the welfare state as it stood can't have been aiming for this, surely? The 'United' Kingdom? More like Untied kingdom.

Got it! Stupid control valve. Budged and now working. Wew!

I have an old re 160k pressure washer. It's been running poorly so I stripped and rebuilt the pump. The wand and hose allow water through at mains pressure with the pump off, but the pressure isn't good (although higher than mains) with the pump on. Running the pump without the hose attached gives good pressure (blasting straight out of the machine). Not seen a 'slightly' blocked hose before which is the most obvious answer I guess. Any ideas? Is this common?

I've had a fair number of saws come to me with apparently very fresh carb kits that have nonetheless turned hard from being in contact with fuel, then left dry. Hard to know what the best angle is, apart from to use Aspen and leave it in the tank (as I do).

I've just put a 372 pot on a 365 special; obviously works fine. Standard 365/special has a Zama carb I think which you may or may not want to switch for a Walbro HD-12. I think the non-Special 365 has a different intake boot/port (square vs round) that would need replacing to fit a 372 cylinder. Unless you can get a 372 cylinder with a square intake port to fit the original boot.

Unlikely, but... I've had this when the bar is getting pinched very slightly when the clutch cover is tightened. Possibly when something is stuck behind the plate that covers the oiler channel, or when there's slightly too much paint applied to the bar around the rails, or if there's any warping in the clutch cover. Basically if the clutch cover/clamping area isn't true or flat. Can be tested by loosening the stud nuts slightly and seeing if the chain runs, then tightening and seeing if it jams. When hot. Fixable by cleaning and/or light flat-filing of the bar side/end.

There is a series of brilliant videos on YouTube by andy reynolds about 026 bearings. He is a proper YouTube hero! Defo covers everything you need.

They are the white ones but they simply aren't available. Snapon used to sell them online but no more. Can't find anybody else selling them at all.

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Knackered 365 that I've stuck a meteor 372 pot and piston on with an old 2165 hd-12 carb instead of the zama. Fired up yesterday and runs really well. Tempted to keep it but I don't really need one as big. Very nice saw though; I can see why the 372 is so popular!

Really easy saw to work on/fix. Loads of used parts around, loads of aftermarket parts. Meteor make pistons and cylinders which is always a bonus! Back handle where the handle meets the horizontal hand-guard/footplate is crackable if you're a cack-handed buffoon, but also easy to fix. Fixed loads of them and no particular pattern of fault/weakness that I've noticed. Have a nice one on an 8T sprocket/12" bar at the moment that's fast enough for me.

Anybody know where to get spare Schrader valves now snapon seems to have stopped selling them? I have two that need doing.

I am working on a 365 special. The carb is AWOL, and I'm not sure about using an aftermarket one. Any experiences with them? Cheers, Adam.

Anybody else with an unhealthy obsession with knackered saws noticed that 026/260s are currently fetching stupid money while 036s are going for peanuts? I can see that an 026 has wider appeal, but they seem to be fetching over £200 at the moment, whereas 036s can be had for nearly £100 less... Odd.

Usually drill 4 largish holes in the 'corners' of my chopping/splitting block, stick 4 20mm ish sticks in and dump the wood in the middle. Holds it firm and is easily repeatable when the block wears out...

I didn't mean to suggest that you are/were ill-informed, so I'm sorry if that's how it read! Just that stuff on the net can go from one man's bluffing to universal 'fact' fairly quickly. Bird-related example 1: Duck quacks don't echo. Endlessly stated as fact, yet absolute nonsense, obviously. Bird-related example 2: Swans can't take-off on land. Somebody told me this when I was a youngster, and I believed it right into adulthood!

No, this is one of those endlessly repeated non-facts probably stemming from a single ill-informed post somewhere in the depths of the internet. Logically, why on earth would the more highly used number be the one with the lesser service? That would clearly be mental. 112 was only adopted to create uniformity across Europe etc, other than that 999 and 112 are the same number with the same service routing.

Are there any chainsaw trousers etc that will stop an electric saw? If not, aren't the increasing decent cordless saws a recipe for injuries?

I've been through a number of safety specs (to wear under mesh) and they all seem to distort my vision slightly in a not-very-pleasant way. Sort of "WOAH! 3D!". Anybody recommend a pair that doesn't won't reduce a grown man to tears when he stands and them?

Thanks! Anybody have that extra 1%?

Anybody know if 026 plastic and metal front handles are interchangeable?

Finally got the sparkless 026 running. Still no idea what it was: 3 coils, all with very similar resistance across primary and secondary. 2 flywheels, both seem fine. All wiring torn down and tested/replaced. Only one coil will produce spark, but test results show virtually no difference between this coil and the other 2. Funny. Oh well.