Right, it's the point of the matter. If I had gotten a top notch cylinder like the latest ones have been, I probably wouldn't have even complained about a few inferior parts. But it just the principal that I paid for parts that are supposed to work. I didn't expect oem quality but I did expect every part to be usable. If people don't complain, their quality will get worse instead of better.
I just used sandpaper on my finger to knock off the sharp edges.
It is a very light hit, without the gasket. But it is able to still go through the full stroke. It may be a spot in the squish band that is thicker than the rest. Not sure though. I see why you are questioning, but it wasn't like I couldn't turn everything through full cycle, without the gasket.
Still can't figure out why if you think two 99cc saw that work every day and made me $1200 dollars in the last 3 days are "chinese junk", that you would be reading this thread.... ****ing troll.
I have about 320 in mine. I have not seen any decent used ones for anywhere close to that. And if you have to ask why, then you just wouldn't understand anyway.
And, to "piggy back" on your point (from the standpoint of someone that makes a living with "saws"), you SHOULD be proud of what you've done and what you learn. "Most" loggers and folks that burn fuel and oil for a living will never build a saw. Most production loggers and arborists are "saw wreckers". I don't use that as a "negative phrase". They work saws to death! They drop them, run them over, burn them up and "demand" one thing and one thing only, that they start, run all day and make them money. If the saw doesn't do that, it gets ripped apart and turned into a "parts saw", or it gets brought to soemone like me to fix it. They can't even agree on overall "brand reliability", because most of them only run the saws that are given to them to use. Now, this doesn't apply to ALL of them! Some guys are logging "tyranosaurs"! They know saws inside and outside. Those are the folks worth listening to.
