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10mm 044

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    I have been breaking in the 10mm 044 for the last few months and enjoying the heck out of it. Compression is up over 170. I put an outerwears prefilter on the HD filter and finally got a DP muffler cover, they have been hard to find here recently.

    So I retuned and sank it in an old white oak and :D. Here is a little video. Also running a square filed chain.

     
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    That's bad a$$.... Great video!
     
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    BOOM!!! Very nice. Other than the DP cover and filter upgrade is it stock/original?
     
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    Nice
     
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    She's moving - sounds real good - nice saw!! Cheers!
     
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    Just on Friday I cut up a big dead red elm trunk with mine, burying the nose of a 28" bar with full skip, and it did well. Unless I get heavily into milling, I don't see myself needing a bigger saw.
     
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    Great running saw!!
     
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    Hammer down...
     
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    Thinner base gasket and new piston. The cylinder is a stock KS. I also ground the muffler gasket and muffler to match the exhaust opening.
     
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    Those are nice running stock saws.
     
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    Then add in a few tweaks and a square filed chain and they really wake up. Adding the DP cover changed the tune by 800 rpm.
     
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    Exactly what I did too, but I built it before word got out about the affordability of OEM pistons so mine's a Meteor. I haven't picked up a DP cover, though, largely out of concern about how loud it might be. In fact the muffler I got for it has the smaller outlet that was stock on 12mm saws. I could probably stand to open it up to match the early 044 outlets, at least.
     
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    I would do that for sure. I opened one up for a tree cutter here in the city and he couldn't believe the difference.
    I just posted this thread. http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/threads/open-up-ms440-muffler-outlet.12410/
     
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    I have an early 12mm and the muffler outlet on it and the 10mm are the same.
     
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    That doesn't hurt a bit.
     
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    Ah, maybe I misunderstood the transition point. I've only every handled two 044's -- the one I sold to rjames, which was an early model with a red switch shaft, and the one I rebuilt and kept, which didn't come with a muffler at all. The used OEM muffler I got for it had a substantially smaller outlet.
     
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    The 12mm 044 I have the SN starts 132xxx and had the diagonal fin Mahle cylinder on it when I got it. It was toast. I have had a 440 with the small opening so I know what you mean. I don't know when they shrank it down either. Maybe when they went to the straight fin design?
     
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    Maybe. AFAIK the switch to right-angle fins coincided pretty closely with the switch to 12mm wrist pins, but not exactly.
     
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    Unfortunately, I don't own that saw anymore, but it is in very good hands. I have regretted that decision since and I'm on the lookout for it's replacement. It was a good one for sure.
     
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    Now I'm curious. What triggered your momentary lapse in judgement?
     
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