I can get a meteor cylinder with the 10mm pin in the UK for £24.
Meteor piston, is yours a 10mm pin? Mine is an early saw with no decompression button but it is a 12mm pin. Double check it with the caliper before you commit.
Weekend use but often a full days once I get started. Tree and hedge work. I want to try and repair it to be honest - if nothing else to learn how to do so.
We have 12 acres so hire/electric and even battery are all out in my opinion. There are a lot of neglected hedges and trees.
I bought the cheapest piston on ebay for my 044, cost about £6.50 and it's run well for nearly 2 years now. My plan was to treat it to a barrel and piston if it didn't work out but it saved me the trouble by running perfectly. I picked a saw up today from Gumtree, MS460 to have a look at and tinker with. I had the exhaust off and the piston looks clean, there's a spark but no action so I will take the carb off and see what is going on inside. It needs some new plastics though so I'll see about some from China once it's running.
I dont know if this is normal or indicates excessive wear? It was working fine one day and not the next. The marks look a lot worse than they feel - barely perceptible as i run my finger nail over them.
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