What's on your bench now?

Nice! That should throw some chips.

 

This is how I restart my 562xp

 

Last May I picked up this 372XP. After a few test cuts I realized that it needed crank seals. It sat under my bench, untouched until last month when I got motivated. Upon seeing the intake side of the piston, I decided to pull the cylinder off and ordered a new piston and ring while I had it apart. I’m trying to get everything cleaned up but this is hands down the dirtiest saw I’ve ever dealt with. I sprayed super clean on all the grime several times and it won’t touch it. Out of desperation today I brought it down to the car wash and blasted it with the high pressure power washer with warm soapy water. Most of the grime is still there! It’s like hard carbon buildup, and has to be chipped off with small screwdrivers. I wonder if this saw cut a lot of pine and the grime is a mix of pitch, sawdust and oil, cured onto the cases after many hours of heat cycling? At this point I’m tempted to split the cases, order new bearings and start from the bottom up… Or just get whatever I can easily get off and call it good enough. I dunno. Hard to put a saw back together with junk in all the crevices.