Ok I know this thread has concluded, but before it ends I think Brad needs to summarize what he has learned or anyone else reading this thread should have learned. Here is what I learned and I'm open to criticism.
1) The cylinder posted is not a good cylinder.
2) All Stihl homeowner saws are a POS. According to Brad and he says there are better options out there. However, I know many people out there that cut more wood than Brad does in a year with a so called "Homeowner" inferior saws than Brad does, and they get along just fine.
3) A few of the Husky homeowner saws are a POS. I can't personally attest to that, but Spike's comments on his own line of saws should be commended.
4) We really still have not yet determined the source of the cylinder...is it a Mahle cylinder? Are there Mahle cylinders out there that are defective?
5) There are a lot of people posting on the thead that have minimal experience with saws and tearing down of saws. Woodie this includes you
6) Don't insult THall's mother.
7) Weimedog knows a lot about casting and could probably teach us a bunch.
8) There is a bunch of potential liability involved with modding saws no matter if the saw builders on here want to acknowledge that or not imo. Like I said in a previous post if your comfortable with that ...ok....but I just want to note a word of caution on my part.
9) There were a bunch of personal attacks on this thread that were probably good hearted at first, but got a little out of hand.
10) No matter how much we think we know, Husky, Stihl, and Dolmar, their teams know a lot more about building saws then we will ever know.
11) There is a bunch of knowledgeable people on AS that aren't participating in this thread that I wish that would.
12) Spacemule still likes to stir the pot...he has done that ever since I've been a member of AS.
13) Fastcast loves his Macs, but to his betterment, he acknowledges that the odds aren't in your favor financially if your writing mac sw.
This is all for now, but I'm sure I can drum up some more......