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I bet you have seen the bad results of a hone job though. A few years ago a man brought me a 084 he had bought from a rental center, was scored. He decided he could clean that cylinder with a good hone job, boy did he hone it, right down till there was no nikasil left, he ruined it.

If someone tells me I just rebuilt it, I honed the cylinder and installed a new piston you can rest assured I'm gonna say no thanks.

Where I work there is no cleaning of scored cylinders either, its replaced with new or it doesn't get worked on. Too date almost 20 years now I've never had one comeback on a cylinder job. It may be ok for the hobbiest or the guy trying to squeeze some pennies but when repairing for money all the possible errors have to be eliminated as much as possible.

I'm with you Jacob, honing is not for chainsaw cylinders at all...