A little cutting tonight

cylinder dont look like my old 372.

 

Tell ya what though, you could put a head on this one and run it, she is good and true. Came out good, cylinder has some scoring deep into the plating that I couldn't get out. Figured it would make a nice shop ornament for him. He's a heck of a guy that has taken real good care of me over the years.

 

I was wondering if a stihl. Thats why I wanted to see transfers.

 

Would your friends initials by chance be TD?

 

I went to school for tool and die, that is where my machining background/ love for this stuff came from. But honestly, the machine work behind a lot of this saw stuff is far from complicated. IMO, the tough stuff is the right port timing, combustion chamber volume, what works and what doesn't through trial and error.

 

How did ya guess that?

 

One of the best guys you could of ever know. I like his 07s that he got for a shop gift

 

You said that right. As good of a dude as they get.

Ya that 07s is pretty sweet, couple of good guys snagged that one for him. Better shop warming present than I am coming up with lol.

 

Are you from the area @SquareFile ?

 

I was a Ram in High school. 93 grad of machine trades

 

I was 10 years behind ya. Last year they did tool and die. Never ended up in a machine shop after that, but welded for kokosing or a year and a half. I liked it, but made better money elsewhere without the drive.

 

Both my instructors retired shortly after I graduated. I heard the program went down hill from there.

They were old school and a wealth of knowledge

I'm still in the trade, only one out of my class

 

I'm not sure how the program compares to others out there. My tool and die instructor was a joke, but the junior machine trades teacher was a good one.

I think a lot of the vocational programs have went downhill, even at pioneer, and for more reasons than I can type lol. Madison doesnt even have a cad program anymore. Feel free to send me a pm anytime @SquareFile, wouldn't mind shooting the crap with ya some more

 

Are theses high school programs y'all are talking about???? My school had nothing of the sort? Mostly college prep and honors and AP classes. Gearing up for college.

I graduated in 00 high school that is.

 

Yes my High school had its own trade school.

Smaller local schools had county vocational school students could attend.

When I was in school, industry in this country was strong so trade school was too.

Now skilled trades is not pushed like college.

My opinion it seems like we are just consumers of other country's products.

 

When I was in high school we had metal and wood shop. Learned it all right in high school. No Vo-tech school was needed. Nothing was cad either. All manual metal lathes, milling etc. I would have been lost with all the new programmable stuff out there later.

 

The local tech school where I was from had auto body , mechanics and a few other things like heating and Air, and metal and welding. I went there for classes to transfer me on to college.

Now a days with the price of college and stagnant washed I think vocational school trade school or 2 yr school may be the way to go.

I seriously would look at nursing too. Demand in that field always.

Here in the south our industry is terrible. Nothing down here much anymore. Have some auto plants but unless your near them....the textiles have folded up over the last 20 years and gone to india and Taiwan etc...that use to be our big thing. There is a mill village and old mill in almost every town/city around here.

 

I know who to call to help me cut the head off a cylinder and build a head now.