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Stephen C. said:
wow, nice saw! I wouldn't start it either. Looks like a lot of snow down there, looks like a good time to spend indoors perhaps sipping a cold one, but not to cold. The -12 temps and 40 mph wind out of the west has helped me find all the air leaks around my west facing doors. The 8 foot overhang/porch creates a pressure plenum I had -12 air rushing in. I spent the evening packing fiberglass insulation around the frames of my west facing doors. Has made a huge difference.
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Sounds like fun. I've got a rogue hamster on the loose in my SUV. Been there since he escaped his cage on Sunday while we were bringing him home. I've taken out the front seats and the center console and seen him a number of times, but can't catch him. Last night I had to clean out 1/2 the garage, pull the SUV in the garage and turn on heaters so he doesn't die from the cold before I can catch him. It got to 12 degrees here last night. Wish that hamster would get his butt trapped!
 
dboyd351 said:
Sounds like fun. I've got a rogue hamster on the loose in my SUV. Been there since he escaped his cage on Sunday while we were bringing him home. I've taken out the front seats and the center console and seen him a number of times, but can't catch him. Last night I had to clean out 1/2 the garage, pull the SUV in the garage and turn on heaters so he doesn't die from the cold before I can catch him. It got to 12 degrees here last night. Wish that hamster would get his butt trapped!
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Good luck. Least he's in a confined area. Years ago my daughters hamster got loose in the house. Couldn't find him anywhere. Guess what, 1 year later, 1 year mind you, I see him sticking his head out from under the refrigerator. Couldn't believe it.
 
redunshee said:
Good luck. Least he's in a confined area. Years ago my daughters hamster got loose in the house. Couldn't find him anywhere. Guess what, 1 year later, 1 year mind you, I see him sticking his head out from under the refrigerator. Couldn't believe it.
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I believe it; hamsters are rodents, right? Their survival skills are pretty good. So are their mating urges, maybe you could lure him?? into a trap using a female hamster.
 
Chris J. said:
I believe it; hamsters are rodents, right? Their survival skills are pretty good. So are their mating urges, maybe you could lure him?? into a trap using a female hamster.
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Guess that's a possibility, but at the rate I'm going, she would escape, too and the pair would set up housekeeping for a whole family.

Maybe I'll just buy him a little chauffer's suit and teach him to drive me around.
 
Thanks for checking on a torque chart Mark, I found the calculator below for the UNF threads & I was too way high on torque as 60 inch pounds exceeds 100% yield. I should have stopped at 45-50 in-lb tops.

I also have the manual you sent me for the 3400 series, but of course they don't use the split rods.

Grrrr, makes me wonder what the status is on the rod bolts on the other dozen or so 306/245 I put together...:mad:

http://www.tribology-abc.com/calculators/unf_2.htm
 
[quote"hotshot, post: 4636170, member: 36158"]Thanks for checking on a torque chart Mark, I found the calculator below for the UNF threads & I was too way high on torque as 60 inch pounds exceeds 100% yield. I should have stopped at 45-50 in-lb tops.

I also have the manual you sent me for the 3400 series, but of course they don't use the split rods.

Grrrr, makes me wonder what the status is on the rod bolts on the other dozen or so 306/245 I put together...:mad:

http://www.tribology-abc.com/calculators/unf_2.htm[/quote]
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hotshot said:
Thanks for checking on a torque chart Mark, I found the calculator below for the UNF threads & I was too way high on torque as 60 inch pounds exceeds 100% yield. I should have stopped at 45-50 in-lb tops.

I also have the manual you sent me for the 3400 series, but of course they don't use the split rods.

Grrrr, makes me wonder what the status is on the rod bolts on the other dozen or so 306/245 I put together...:mad:

http://www.tribology-abc.com/calculators/unf_2.htm
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I dont worry much about them and just snug them up tight.
 
"Snug tight" would have been about right. I got her going again with new bolts & a 50 inch pound setting on the
wrench, but what was different was that the 306 model IPL shows the #15094 bolts at 1/2" long, but they were actually 5/8"
long in the 245 & that's what I put back in. Same part number in all the IPLS. Did you ever notice how Poulan has the plastic
recoil discs flipped around wrong on the drawing? The large holer goes to the outside...

Need two people (three hands) to put the wrist pin into the hot piston, as that pin will not start into it at room temp.
Heat gun fixed that little problem. I'll post a picture of the mutt when the taller air filter cover arrives.
 
Stephen C. said:
When I started working on motorcycles 45 years ago I found out that somebody who shoveled 20,000 pounds of pig food a day with an aluminum grain scoop could often strip out threads and break things when just snugging things up. There was a considerable "learning curve". I had o fix some of my fixes. Now I use extreme caution on critical parts. Torque values are handy for me. I don't work on small stuff often enough to maintain my wrist calibration. When you get the "woops" feeling of threads pulling out it is to late. Guys who do it every day probably don't need torque stuff.
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10 tons per day is a load, but I'm normally not ham fisted. I think that the bolts may have been defective, as the rod cap wasn't cocked or out of alignment and done a raft of those series without a problem. Note that I did use a torque wrench the second time.

That 245 got a brand new top end, and is blowing 155 pounds with a base gasket. I custom "Dremel" fit some of the Greeks Caber 51.05mm x 0.062" thick rings that fully surround the vertical ring end keeper pin. Set the end gaps at 0.008". Still have not put it into wood but it sounds healthy.
 
Does anyone remember if the 3800 Poulan piston ring end keeper pins are centered in the grooves, or offset like a Stihl piston?

Thought someone may have a chromed piston loose on the bench to look.
 
redunshee said:
Interesting pic of a 3800 piston. Could have sworn the pin was centered as the rings have square ends if I recall correctly.
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They were centered on the Craftsman 3.7 (3800) I just put back together. I would know as I was looking at them for over an hour trying to get the cylinder over the rings. My piston ring compressor set is in the mail. I have seen the offset in a 3400 like the pic but the ring ends are square. Maybe just sloppy fixturing when the pistons were manufactured.
 
fossil said:
They were centered on the Craftsman 3.7 (3800) I just put back together. I would know as I was looking at them for over an hour trying to get the cylinder over the rings. My piston ring compressor set is in the mail. I have seen the offset in a 3400 like the pic but the ring ends are square. Maybe just sloppy fixturing when the pistons were manufactured.
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Interesting as all my 3400's have a centered pin. Wonder if there is a compression loss with the offset pin and square end rings.
 

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