Duke Thieroff
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Yep, that's a beauty!
Nik's Poulan Thread
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Chris have you got a ball park idea on pricing yet?
I wonder what happened to all the old poulan tooling
I wonder what happened to all the old poulan tooling
Duke Thieroff
Fill your hands, you SOB!
Honestly, yes, but it depends on what the trade and tariff situation looks like at the time these are produced and shipped. 25% duties are big bucks!
Contrary to what our president would have folks believe the tariff costs come directly from my pocket. The USTR requires my payment of it in order to release goods.
It appears that some mild agreement has been reached and some tariffs have been relaxed, but things have been generally unpredictable over the past 18 months.
Regardless, the pricing will be fair and equitable. I think our customers will find it worthwhile to upgrade to this cylinder over the standard 3400
Honestly, yes, but it depends on what the trade and tariff situation looks like at the time these are produced and shipped. 25% duties are big bucks!
Contrary to what our president would have folks believe the tariff costs come directly from my pocket. The USTR requires my payment of it in order to release goods.
It appears that some mild agreement has been reached and some tariffs have been relaxed, but things have been generally unpredictable over the past 18 months.
Regardless, the pricing will be fair and equitable. I think our customers will find it worthwhile to upgrade to this cylinder over the standard 3400
Cool as sums up the situation pretty well. Hopefully it will be smoothed over by then.
Thanks for doing this by the way it can't have been an easy thing to get done
I have 2 like it and they are a very nice saw, some of the last ones made and have all the improvements that had been made. Have 2 of the 3400 that look the same. I like the muffler cover better than the other 2 piece one, you can get them at partstree. Didn't post correct we are talking about the 3800
I didn't notice the muffler difference until now. I also like that hand guard vs the bar mounted 1
Can't wait to see what Mr. Todd thinks about them. Hope the squish is lower than stock.
Steve Sidwell
Steve Sidwell
Duke Thieroff
Fill your hands, you SOB!
I think we'll end up seeing something a little closer to stock, to be frank.
Now a fella with a lathe......
It's a easy bolt on project
Closer to stock won't hurt, gasket delete to bump it up, much bigger and then no power so to say. Feels like the first time I went to the Pro Bass Shop, kid in the candy store feeling.
Steve Sidwell
Forgot to mention that I like that piston pin puller/installer design ya got, nice.
Steve Sidwell
Steve Sidwell
Duke Thieroff
Fill your hands, you SOB!
Yessir Steve, man, I couldn't wait to open the box up when I got the first sample in. We've been working on this for 9-10 months now. I can't wait to see what the guys I sent them out to have to say. If I wasn't so busy I'd be pulling my hair out.
It's going to be so awesome to see guys putting them on their saws and taking them out for work.
Thanks for that! A lot of guys have made up some pretty ingenious tools to pull the pins.
I've parted out a lot of saws in my day and always struggled with a good solution to pulling those pins. As it turns out this thing really works pretty awesome. I'll link a video here....
These things are easy to drop a cylinder on without a lathe. .025" is a good spot.
This is a wrist pin remover with a Poulan part # 530031069
I know some people here already have one of these but there might be some who have not seen one before. Some people like Todd could make one these fairly easy.
I know some people here already have one of these but there might be some who have not seen one before. Some people like Todd could make one these fairly easy.
Hi Chris! looks like a hell of a good project you got going on there!
Duke Thieroff
Fill your hands, you SOB!
Duke Thieroff
Fill your hands, you SOB!
It's been a little bit interesting and a learning process. I've also made some other changes to the setup not related to the rings, but I think they will be welcomed overall. Since they're being made overseas and the international standard is metric these days we went ahead and opted to tap all the holes in the cylinder as metric. With that being said, though, we will also be including a 6/pc hardware kit with each cylinder to help guys simply convert to metric. We also changed the intake bolts and the 2 longer muffler bolts from a hex cap bolt to a socket cap bolt. This will improve installation ease and you could also head down to your local hardware/Fastenal/Tractor Supply and grab a couple pieces of hardware if you had to.
The idea is to ship the cylinders with the following:
- Cylinder, with insignia cast in it
- Piston, with insignia cast in it
- Rings
- Wrist Pin
- Hardware kit (2/pcs short muffler bolt, 2/pcs long muffler screw, 2/pcs intake screw)
- Upper Cylinder Gasket Set (Intake to cylinder, intake to carb, cylinder base gasket)
Posting pics of the 3400 parts saw for someone.
P+c look usable even.
Most had been stripped for a 4000. Fly, recoil, tank at one time by a past owner. Then he traded it all to me for some PP380, 3450 saw and stuff.
P+c look usable even.
Most had been stripped for a 4000. Fly, recoil, tank at one time by a past owner. Then he traded it all to me for some PP380, 3450 saw and stuff.
34 above SOLD and shipped now. Thanks. 
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