Thunder chicken
Gold Member
Well, my beloved 353 got hit by a tree that jumped the stump on me. (Big ole balsam as our Xmas tree of all things) It got smacked pretty good, I feel like I ran the family dog over. It was such a great saw.
There appears to be lots of Chinese parts available, I'm just leary of the quality, and to me this saw is worth rhe extra dough to me, looking at the replacement cost for something like a 550xp.....
Locally, used parts are scarse. Ebay seems to be a source of some used parts. I need a tank/handle with trigger parts, and a top cover, along with some smaller bits I can get locally (clips, oil cap, switches)
The mag case has a few chips out of it, but I'm not too worried about those, the next step is to do a compression check, and maybe fire it up as it is to make sure it'll still run ok before spending a bit of cash on it.
It was such a great saw!!!
There appears to be lots of Chinese parts available, I'm just leary of the quality, and to me this saw is worth rhe extra dough to me, looking at the replacement cost for something like a 550xp.....
Locally, used parts are scarse. Ebay seems to be a source of some used parts. I need a tank/handle with trigger parts, and a top cover, along with some smaller bits I can get locally (clips, oil cap, switches)
The mag case has a few chips out of it, but I'm not too worried about those, the next step is to do a compression check, and maybe fire it up as it is to make sure it'll still run ok before spending a bit of cash on it.
It was such a great saw!!!