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I purchased a Poulan parts lot from Oregon saw shop. The used to do a lot of modifying of the 475. I received some literature as well. The 5400 piston falls right in it

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You must have quite the collection of Blade saws now Mark. That looks like another fine example.
Heck I have never seen one in person let alone collect them.

I didn't set out to collect them, I just stumbled on this one, it was in good shape and I got it right, or should I say I got it Wright. :)

I was interested in this one as it is a very early one based on the Poulan 203 while my other one is later and based on the Poulan 306 if that makes any sense. This one has the 68-69 style decomp with the off switch on the decomp/fast idle button. It also has the round fuel cap, early pull rope handle, and the 2 screw tin muffler that was never used on the 306 saws.
 
I purchased a Poulan parts lot from Oregon saw shop. The used to do a lot of modifying of the 475. I received some literature as well. The 5400 piston falls right in it

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Just curious, as to what else they might have been a dealer for for clues to that other cyls origin.

I don't know why but that cyl seems to point to Homelite, but then that's just a guess...

Send that picture in a PM to Cbfarmall and let him take a stab at it.
 
They were Homelite as well. The do Husgvarna and a few other brands now.

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Work on 475
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;)I see, they want you to pay for that download. Thanks for the link though I stole the picture from it as that's all I wanted anyway, :rock:

This is for anyone reading this and still using Adobe Reader:
If you're still using Adobe reader, ditch that resource hog!!
Damn thing keeps a load on your pc even when you aren't using it.
If You are only looking at pfds and not needing to manipulate them, Check out "Foxit reader" for the pdf files.
I'm still running version 2.1 and it works fine for reading and saving them ( it saved the farmshow link , no problem. )
You guys can get an older version of Foxit reader at the "old apps" site
http://www.oldapps.com/foxit_reader.php?old_foxit_reader=17?download
But file hippo has versions all the way back to 1.3 and pretty easy to navigate their site even,
maybe easier than old apps site.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_foxit/history/

or pick up a newer version from the foxit reader site. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/
I'm still running the old version [2.1] because it does all that I want (view PDFs)
It always seems like newer versions of anything pick up bloat ..excuse me "features" that you can't remove and just get slower while eating up more computer horsepower.
I've also generally newer versions of things just get annoyingly messy to use because of that crap.
But If you want more bells & whistles they have a pay for it version too.

Sadly it looks like the newer Foxit is getting piggy too.
Current version [6.1] is up to 31.9 mb now......jeeeze.
Version 2.1 is about 2.1 mb.

If you've ever noticed how slow your pc gets when you open adobe, you'll see what I mean.

IF You do try this or any other program,
Be DAMN sharp reading the install screens
UN-tick those boxes that are automatically checked and don't let them
install any friggin toolbars or search optimizer garbage or other stuff
during the process.
that stuff is worse than having Adobe on your machine.
Sadly, a lot of so called "freeware" is doing that bundled duff nowdays
and it causes no end of headaches for people.

Your so called "free apps" of *all* stripes are prone to installing parasites
so don't think i'm just singling out this one program.
 

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