your blown cylinder gasket woes sounds like the story my mate told me that one of his customers had the same trouble, do you by any chance know laurie kibblewhite [ saw chain supply ] ????. and i know what you mean by your local stihl dealer being a rip off my local dealer is is a bit expensive on his prices as well , so i tend to buy most of my stuff at a stihl dealer 25 klms away hes great has a lot of old stock for the older saws,as well as a ex stihl dealer at balmoral, im currently restoring an old 056 magnum2 that i had given to me and was after a new muffler and he had one [ actually had 3 in stock ] and a new ignition module for the sem ignition .I should have it running hope fully by the end of next week cant wait !!my ms880 i paid $700 for with 4x25" chains and solid nose bar and 4x36" chains and roller nose es bar it had only done 30 hrs from new oh and a tecomech sharpener thrown in as well .i have a nice collection of saws at the moment , they include 2 x 090av, 1x std 090, a 1959 lightning , ms880 mag ,066 mag ,046 mag ,056 mag2 , 030 ,3 x08s - 2 with chain brakes ,a jonsered xf ,2 mculloch 250 ,a solo 626 ,dolmar 166 [what a beast ] these are all in perfect running order and 3 more 090s [1 is an av] , 2 more lightnings these are awaiting repairs to be got going!!!, looking for a dolmar 143, and a 153 as well, i cut a fair amount of firewood each year and drop the occasional big tree , but mainly storm damage trees as well as i bought myself a super axe ws400 woodsplitter this year just to make it a bit easier and a lot faster to split lmao !!!. Here are some shots of some of he saws , and some of me dropping some dead pines at my mates farm in kangaroo valley nsw with the help of a 20 ton cat excavator as the pines were widow makers lots of dead crumbly branches overhead
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