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So I was looking at my saw and realized that if I forewent the silly bucking-spikes, and their bumper-attachment, that I'd gain about 1.5" usable bar-length (big deal for a 10" bar!)
It was just (2) lil phillips bolts holding it on there, can't believe anyone would think that spikes are more useful than 1.5" in this circumstance (spikes on a 25cc machine? for aesthetics only I imagine!), however there's this rigid tube with a bolt at the top protruding from the front of the case, can anyone ID this for me?
It's dead-center of the front of the case:
Here's me holding that bumper in-place in-front of the area that's zoomed-in above^

Am very very happy to have a 15% bar-length increase but worried that I'm going to bash that thing and ruin my saw, my instinct is to put a gob of epoxy on it where it stands so it's frozen to the front but if it's a breather-tube or other pressure-relief type of tube I'm afraid of losing that aeration ability, though to be honest I can't find any spots that look like they have a pin-hole it just looks like a tube with a nut in the end, which of course would be pointless in and of itself!!
Thanks a ton for an ID on this it'd be greatly appreciated, was just doing a medium-level cleaning of the powerhead after a heavy session on the bar&chain and noticed it while cleaning the case, have been cutting with it exposed like that for weeks lol should really figure out what it is so I can appropriately affix/protect it!!
[FWIW this saw is one of those 25.4cc saws that're $100-150 on ebay/amazon, basically clones of the cs2511t this one is a 'scheppach', got it 6mo ago for $140 shipped and have been loving it, gets medium-duty workload and would definitely be better with a 12" instead of the 10", it was wimpy when I put a 16" on it though]
It was just (2) lil phillips bolts holding it on there, can't believe anyone would think that spikes are more useful than 1.5" in this circumstance (spikes on a 25cc machine? for aesthetics only I imagine!), however there's this rigid tube with a bolt at the top protruding from the front of the case, can anyone ID this for me?
It's dead-center of the front of the case:


Am very very happy to have a 15% bar-length increase but worried that I'm going to bash that thing and ruin my saw, my instinct is to put a gob of epoxy on it where it stands so it's frozen to the front but if it's a breather-tube or other pressure-relief type of tube I'm afraid of losing that aeration ability, though to be honest I can't find any spots that look like they have a pin-hole it just looks like a tube with a nut in the end, which of course would be pointless in and of itself!!
Thanks a ton for an ID on this it'd be greatly appreciated, was just doing a medium-level cleaning of the powerhead after a heavy session on the bar&chain and noticed it while cleaning the case, have been cutting with it exposed like that for weeks lol should really figure out what it is so I can appropriately affix/protect it!!
[FWIW this saw is one of those 25.4cc saws that're $100-150 on ebay/amazon, basically clones of the cs2511t this one is a 'scheppach', got it 6mo ago for $140 shipped and have been loving it, gets medium-duty workload and would definitely be better with a 12" instead of the 10", it was wimpy when I put a 16" on it though]