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I use Danish oil, cheap easy to apply, food safe. Rustins - the leader in woodcare and specialty paints H-A

It is one of these Industrial Grade Professional Ultrasonic Cleaner Heater For Lab Dental | eBay 13 litre, heats up to 80 degrees C. Works well. H-A

I use water with a few drops of detergent. Perhaps I should be using special fluid, I thought it was the bubbles exploding on the surface of the item that did the cleaning. It does the job, a heated tank helps. H-A

A friend of mine had to TNT an outboard from Bermuda to the UK as the american airline refused to load it on their aircraft, drained of all fuel and oil. I have had machetes in my baggage that goes in the hold, no problem. I feel internal combustion engines are a little more complicated to put on planes. I would ask the questions before to get to the airport. H-A

:001_smile:Golf bag perhaps. It will prove difficult to transport on a commercial flight since the twin towers. How would you convince the check in staff, that you were not planning to cut a new exit door in the airliner. I think you will be looking at couriers such as TNT or UPS but they are very expensive, and will not carry any thing that has even a wiff of petrol. Take it to bits and ship as chainsaw parts, Parcels to Go might be worth a look. H-A

Turned your picture round, hope you don't mind. I helped take down a large Beech that was on the edge of a landfill site. The fill level way about 12" above original, this had killed the tree, made good fire wood though. H-A

I have used Flex-Hones in cast iron cylinders, they are the world leaders in bog brush with abrasive balls on the end. One flex-hone supplier says this: "What if my cylinder is Nikasil Coated? Nikasil coated cylinders are more delicate than the iron bores typically used with Flex-Hones®. Nikasil is an electroplated oleophilic nickel matrix silicon carbide coating that allows the use of aluminum cylinder walls without a steel sleeve. This coating reduces friction and wear. Great advantages come with the use of Nikasil on coated aluminum blocks or jugs, one of them is the increased heat removal from the piston, pin and ring assemblies. The other advantage is the tighter tolerances can be achieved. Most Nikasil coatings are 0.0003" to 0.0008". To deglaze and freshen up the bore walls you must use an aluminum oxide material based hone. This softer material works well with the hard walls. Use the hone like described above with the exception of much less rotations. Run the hone for 10-12 rotations in the bore and inspect. If the overall cylinder looks touched then you are done and remove the tool." This is the type you need, size to suit each cylinder, this will do 40mm. 1 5/8" Nikasil Aluminum Oxide Cylinder Flex-Hone 320 | eBay Not too expensive, just the postage and import duty. Last one I bought came from the states, far too expensive if you buy in the UK. H-A

They would be easy to laser cut in stainless, then polish. Just scan a pair, and get a few dozen made, change the profile slightly add a hole or two, no patent or copyright problems. H-A

If you were to buy 100 of each part, to build 100 saws, would the price go down? I like the idea of chainsaw bling, special laser cut bumper spikes, jap bars are the only readily available things that springs to mind. It is a little odd that it has not happened in the chainsaw world, custom exhausts would be an easy one, carbon fibre covers, chrome bars, aluminium cnc bits to replace the plastic., high compression ported cylinder piston kits. If you look what is available for scooters, race cranks, pistons, cylinders. A vast range of go faster bits. Perhaps it is only just starting in the saw world. H-A

They could have used one of these Big shears. H-A

Just a thought, If you started from scratch, how much would all the genuine parts cost to build a new saw. Or you could start with an old saw, replace: Crank Cylinder and piston Bearing and seals Oil pump Carb. So you have an as new refurbished saw. There could be a market for re-manufacturing 200ts, replace enough of the important components, and you will have a saw that is as good as new. H-A

Has anyone ported a 115? Must drag mine out of the shed and give it a run. H-A

Spirits of salts from the local hardware shop, if it smokes when you take the lid off, it is concentrated enough. Car valeting suppliers sell steam cleaner de-scaler, this is HCl Hydrochloric acid and is cheap. H-A

I am sure my wife would not approve. Sorry was slow there should have posted this H-A

Not so great in the winter If the long range forecast is correct it could look like that early next year. H-A

Looks ok to me. H-A

Having read all of the reviews, there were a couple of people moaning about the lack of the claw. But it is shown in the instruction book. I am very tempted to buy one online, just to see what it is like. H-A

I did read through them, generally good. I liked this one best "frankly for the price no problem really worth .... If c is the only downside that there is no claw of slaughter .... Otherwise very good report quality price I recommend" May have been the Google translate, but I love bumper spikes being called "Claw of slaughter". I will never call it a bumper spike again:biggrin: H-A

OMG I watched that and some wee came out:lol: that is too dangerous. H-A

It is only in the UK that you need to have your feet off the ground to use one of these. Perhaps the French are generally a little safer than us Brits. Are my "European Union human rights" infringed, if as a British Citizen, I am not able to buy one of these saws from France. H-A

Could buy one online Elagueuse thermique Mac allister MCSP25 25cm 25cc - 900w - CASTORAMA Cheap as chips. H-A

I use this combination, have broken most other makes, now I am all makita. 18v lithium Ion, do not abuse the batteries, they die if they get too hot. H-A P.S. Buy drill driver, then save up for a bare impact driver, uses same battery. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Makita-BTD146Z-18V-Li-ion-Body-Only-Impact-Driver-/121219124960?pt=UK_Home_Garden_PowerTools_SM&hash=item1c39390ee0 At the end of the day you get what you pay for, I use mine hard every day, and it is lasting well.

I went in this pub, quite nice Warren House Inn - History No wonder there are no trees, the fire in the pub has been burning constantly since 1845. H-A

I would say 72m. Number one son helped. H-A