the all aussie dribble thread!

[Red Amor]

I would like to give a shout out to the guys at the stihl shop in dandenong. !
They gave awesome advice, talked me up saw size not down, know their stuff and again today, helped out with a T27 spanner.
Even gave advice of fixing up the seized up 660 with regards to getting melted piston off the bore with acid. (Which I already knew cause of this awesome forum). Even mentioned I could after market parts for it a lot cheaper than buying genuine stihl. Love their honestly. Customer for life.

Yeah I hear ya there mate
we have a great bunch of fellers in the Huonvalley in Tas the Griggs boys and their mongrel brother in law I think he is not sure but a nice helpful feller just the same good blokes
while the timber boom was on the shop held some sort of sales record world wide

 

[Aussie Dave]

Hi guys,just checking in to say gday.Been dragging my ass with work here...unfortunatly havent picked up a saw in a couple of months.
Hope everyone is well and Matt is leaving Neil alone :msp_ohmy:

Cheers Dave

 

[MCW]

Yeah I hear ya there mate
we have a great bunch of fellers in the Huonvalley in Tas the Griggs boys and their mongrel brother in law I think he is not sure but a nice helpful feller just the same good blokes
while the timber boom was on the shop held some sort of sales record world wide

Yeah Steve Griggs is a top bloke. I think you're correct with the record. In their hey day they were selling around 60 x MS660's a year. With forestry getting caned by the Greens they now sell around 6 a year from what he said. Steve is a very smart cookie and was the guy who told me that loggers running 25:1 oil ratios in their 660's were getting FAR less internal wear than those running 50:1. Every time I'm down that way I drop in and say hello. They are always up for a chat.

Hope everyone is well and Matt is leaving Neil alone :msp_ohmy:

Cheers Dave

I have contacted my lawyer Dave and Neil is no longer allowed within 2km of my person.

 

[Lisnm8]

Just herd back from my mechanic that my wagon shagged the timing chain and need a new engine!!!! Bloody alloytechs perfect timing to as my weddings in 2 months! Now how to avoid selling my saws to pay for it arreggghh

 

[ausneil 1]

I have contacted my lawyer Dave and Neil is no longer allowed within 2km of my person.

 

[Rudolf73]

Just herd back from my mechanic that my wagon shagged the timing chain and need a new engine!!!! Bloody alloytechs perfect timing to as my weddings in 2 months! Now how to avoid selling my saws to pay for it arreggghh

Shagged timing chains are the worst! Hope you can get things sorted before the wedding.

 

[gmax]

Yeah Steve Griggs is a top bloke. I think you're correct with the record. In their hey day they were selling around 60 x MS660's a year. With forestry getting caned by the Greens they now sell around 6 a year from what he said. Steve is a very smart cookie and was the guy who told me that loggers running 25:1 oil ratios in their 660's were getting FAR less internal wear than those running 50:1. Every time I'm down that way I drop in and say hello. They are always up for a chat.



I have contacted my lawyer Dave and Neil is no longer allowed within 2km of my person.

A restraining order against Neil?...your a mean bugga

 

[VinceGU05]

Just herd back from my mechanic that my wagon shagged the timing chain and need a new engine!!!! Bloody alloytechs perfect timing to as my weddings in 2 months! Now how to avoid selling my saws to pay for it arreggghh

Motor from the wreckers or a car going cheap on gum tree perhaps?

 

[deepsouth]

Back to file handles-

The wife can't work out why her broom and mop are shorter and flat on the ends! :msp_rolleyes:

After a few takeoff and landing cycles the broom should be rounded again :hmm3grin2orange:

If not, I can get my mother in law onto it.... So long as she doesn't snap the handle. :tongue2:

 

[deepsouth]

Just herd back from my mechanic that my wagon shagged the timing chain and need a new engine!!!! Bloody alloytechs perfect timing to as my weddings in 2 months! Now how to avoid selling my saws to pay for it arreggghh

It's called a bicycle. And I recommend eloping :msp_tongue:

 

[460cixy]

Just herd back from my mechanic that my wagon shagged the timing chain and need a new engine!!!! Bloody alloytechs perfect timing to as my weddings in 2 months! Now how to avoid selling my saws to pay for it arreggghh

Sorry. To hear that mate but we dont call em alloy wrecks for nothing chains go or they just sludge up solid

 

[ausneil 1]

A restraining order against Neil?...your a mean bugga

Thanks Wayne, he is a mean bugger.

 

[bennn*e]

Should also be great to toss in the bin :msp_rolleyes: ....or put it on Gumtree under antiques

Speaking of chainsaws, I was playing around with my new compression tester,

Ozito : 120 psi
mac 10-10 : 135psi
husky 359 : 150 psi

The biggest surprise was the stihl 019T

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I went through an tested some of my older ones a few weekends ago. Anything less then 125-130 got new rings from the Greek. This was my 026 OEM used barrel and new OEM mahle piston and no base gasket. Have seen conflicting evidence regard weather they'll even turn over with out the gasket but this on does and pretty well spot on squish to boot
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[bennn*e]

You better stick with them because the good ones are few and far between.

There's one in SA to I here...

 

[gmax]

I went through an tested some of my older ones a few weekends ago. Anything less then 125-130 got new rings from the Greek. This was my 026 OEM used barrel and new OEM mahle piston and no base gasket. Have seen conflicting evidence regard weather they'll even turn over with out the gasket but this on does and pretty well spot on squish to boot
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Nice! that should have decent power, just have to be careful with increasing the compression on saws with no decomp valve...the starter might self destruct

 

[460cixy]

One dollar window repair

The plastic bush had broken off this window reg so I silver soldered a dollar coil on works a treat

 

[460cixy]

One dollar window repair

The plastic bush had broken off this window reg so I silver soldered a dollar coil on works a treat

 

[derwoodii]

got touched up by a cold front micro burst about 3am last nite so crew out with SES 3 15am amazing damage in a 400m by 1.5 click footprint. You can see how the down draught has ripped open and forced apart tree canopy limbs. Trees on roads homes power lines a local pier been stuffed till fixed typical carnage. A few windows in a 4 story commercial building got popped right out dumped in the road so they had to close the side streets in fear the others now exposed would go same.

The torsion cracks in big as you get sugar gum were like a giant hand reached down twisted it left n right.

My little 231 worked like wizz & I'm startin to come around and like the OEM standard 325 tungsten chain fitted as well been on a full month say 8 full tanks of fuel on dead dirty wet n foul all sorts of wood not a sign of slowing down new price 325 68 link tungsten $88 bucks so spares easy to keep

 

[bennn*e]

Yeah I hear ya there mate
we have a great bunch of fellers in the Huonvalley in Tas the Griggs boys and their mongrel brother in law I think he is not sure but a nice helpful feller just the same good blokes
while the timber boom was on the shop held some sort of sales record world wide

Steve's a bloody good bloke. What he doesn't Know about Stihl isn't worth knowing. He now works for Stihl Australia in the work shop in Melbourne. He actually dropped in for a surprise visit last week will over my way setting up a store and dropped in in his lunch break. If you have ever spoken to him he sounds like he's 6'5 and smokes a pack a day but that definently wasn't the case! I did stump him on lightning G and 090 G info though. He's also put me onto a supplier of 1/2" chain, more on that to come

 

[bennn*e]

Nice! that should have decent power, just have to be careful with increasing the compression on saws with no decomp valve...the starter might self destruct

Yeh she's a later 026 so it has a deco. For a 50cc saw shecpackscsome punch. Opened up the front of the muffler from just one small hole they come with to a slot the width but about 20mm long. Awesome throttle response have got a 20" 3/8 on it at the moment which it pull pretty well but got an old stock powertech GB 20" .325 to go on it and a 14" 3/8p bar too :msp_razz: