Chainsaw Repair

my echo and husky both turn backwards. i think most all gearhead trimmers do.

Between a curved shaft and a straight shaft trimmer, the engines and the main shafts both turn the same direction.

But with the straight shaft trimmer, there are two meshed bevel gears in the angle head. These have a gear reduction as well as a direction change.

You will notice that most curved trimmers use .080" line and the straight shaft ones use .090" line. This is because of the gear reduction in the head.

Not in my hands. Hadnt even seen it.

Guy lives 35mins from me and is holding it for me.

This ought to be fun to figure out how to get back together someday. All of the trigger springs, throttle etc was disassembled and in a box on pick up.

SOLID shaft is what is broke at a small area going into the clutch drum. I had to remove all of the housing to remove clutch drum and bearing so I could get the short part and screw it out of the drum.

His replacement was a 326LS not a 326L like he sent in email to me.

I'd venture to say that the broken shaft was not made properly. That it should have been normalized after the welding process to relax and realign the carbon formations that were upset by the welding process.