Does this piece belong INSIDE this saw???

[Junkyard Jim]

I was given this saw and it was locked up. I took it apart and put a new piston and cylinder in it, cleaned up the carb and the rest of the saw and put it back together. It fired up nice and seems ready to use. A day or two later I see this clip (I'm callin it a clip....plus a few other choice words) on my tear down table. It could belong to something else I have torn down but I have a feeling it came out of this saw somewhere. I took the pics with it on the cover for scales sake and turned both ways.

It doesn't look familiar from the teardown but hopefully someone will recognize it and tell me where it goes or someone can positively say it doesn't belong in it and I can try to remember what else it might belong in. That teardown table gets used for a lot of different types of projects but I try to clean up after each one.

thanks in advance
Jim

 

[Jasonrkba]

Have you been working on a four stroke lately?

 

[OM617YOTA]

Looks like a valve spring keeper to me.

 

[buzz sawyer]

Just wild guess - Looks like it might be a retaining washer that slides over a partially installed screw and the the screw is tightened - like a retainer for one of the covers.

 

[cscltd]

It’s not used on a 55, unless someone tried putting on it where it doesn’t belong or was used as a stop gap for something that was broken or missing?

 

[oldbuzzard]

Never worry about extra left over parts. It is only when you don’t have enough that you have a problem …

 

[buzz sawyer]

Reminds me of the guy who found a bent wire about 4" long in the dryer. Took the dryer apart trying to find where it came from His wife didn't have the heart to tell him it came from one of her underwire bras.

 

[Bill G]

Reminds me of the guy who found a bent wire about 4" long in the dryer. Took the dryer apart trying to find where it came from His wife didn't have the heart to tell him it came from one of her underwire bras.

That's funny but the question is did he get the dryer put back together without extra or missing pieces?

 

[Junkyard Jim]

I did take the head off an F Head 134 engine out of an M38A1 military jeep on that table about the same time so the guys sayin it looks like a retainer could be right.
I’m just glad it doesnt seem to go in the 55.
Thanks for the help and the humor.
Jim

 

[KASH]

I had a scraping sound as my dryer drum turned.I tore it apart and one of those bra wires was wedged between the drum and the houseing.
Kash

 

[MudgeHollowBeaver]

Starting to sound like someone in the old Monty Python song about a lumberjack that wore 'suspenders and a bra.....'.

 

[MudgeHollowBeaver]

Starting to sound like someone in the old Monty Python song about a lumberjack that wore 'suspenders and a bra.....'.

lumberjack song on YouTube:

 

[Okie]

This thread reminds me of a part I had left over after I had been deep into a Stihl 028 chainsaw.
Got it all back together and it ran great. When I was putting up tools one of the white plastic catch containers had a white important looking plastic part in the bottom almost same color as the container was why it was overlooked and some of the plastic pieces and parts on the saw were the same type material and color. I took most all the plastic off the saw looking for where it went, then went to IPL and could not find, came on this site and posted a picture and no replies until couple days later I begged on here for a reply and one of the stihl experts on here said that did not come from that saw. Brain kicked in gear then and I realized then where the piece come from. I had used that container for catching parts from a Kenmore washing machine gear box few days before and the gear box was not repairable due to broken plastic and the white plastic piece was still in the container.

 

[Cricket]

This thread reminds me of a part I had left over after I had been deep into a Stihl 028 chainsaw.
Got it all back together and it ran great. When I was putting up tools one of the white plastic catch containers had a white important looking plastic part in the bottom almost same color as the container was why it was overlooked and some of the plastic pieces and parts on the saw were the same type material and color. I took most all the plastic off the saw looking for where it went, then went to IPL and could not find, came on this site and posted a picture and no replies until couple days later I begged on here for a reply and one of the stihl experts on here said that did not come from that saw. Brain kicked in gear then and I realized then where the piece come from. I had used that container for catching parts from a Kenmore washing machine gear box few days before and the gear box was not repairable due to broken plastic and the white plastic piece was still in the container.

Oh, testify. I've also just said screw it and sacrificed a box end wrench to the cause, when I discovered one about three layers deep in something, hanging around a piece of tubing or some other spot where it's not removeable without a major re-teardown...

 

[farmer steve]

Had this problem one time.

 

[chipper1]

Had this problem one time.
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Looks like BL's dryer

 

[pioneerguy600]

Looks like BL's dryer

Don`t laugh, it looks like my BIL`s dryer, one day when I dropped in for a visit.

 

[Bill G]

Since the conversation has took a little side trip to washers and dryers I have a story that I need to share and YES it involves a chain saw part so it is on topic., I still cannot believe this happened............

For quite a few years I did the majority of the laundry in our home. There was 5 of us including my beautiful (now EX) wife and our 3 sons.. My wife did not allow me to do any of her clothes and this story will shed a bit of light on one of the many reasons why. Well the washer/dryer were in the basement and a lot of my saw parts are stored down there. Now I need to explain that our washer was a front load with the glass door. Well I had a load of jeans in the washer just like most nights. I was standing in front of the washing machine and had a tote tray of saw gears on top of it. I am not sure what I was doing but I had a Stihl 090G gear in my hand and dropped it. It was a perfect storm as when i dropped it the gear fell right on to the edge of the glass door of the washer. Instantly a big POW sounds. The washer was in the spin cycle and when the gear hit the glass it exploded , well kind of imploded as the glass blew into the machine and spun violently. Well I shut it down but the damage was done. The glass was gone and the broken glass destroyed some of the jeans inside the machine. I sheepishly walked back upstairs to tell my wife what I had done. It was not a good situation. I tried different stores to find the glass but it was to no avail. This was our second front loader and the old one was still in the scrap pile but of course the glass was different. Let's just say the checkbook lost some weight on that one as I ended up ordering the glass from Sears. It also destroyrf some of the plastic paddles in the drum. All that because my clumsy arse dropped a little saw part