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I have a huge pile of parts saws, mostly a mix of Stihl stuff from the 70's/80's. We were at a local salvage yard that my neighbor owns the other morn ing looking for some metal for a project (hearth-related, we'll save that for another post) when I stumbled across two Stihl chainsaws in a pile of stuff. My heart paced quickly (I'm a sucker for the old magnesium Stihls!) as I dug them out, and I was elated to find one of them to be a Stihl 510 cutoff saw. I have a box of 051AV stuff in the shed but the case and cylinder is bad in my parts box. This saw has an excellent case, and the carb, muffler, clutch looked great too. The other saw was an 015AV (tophandle model) which was the predecessor to the MS192 saws, and it too had tons of great parts. So I asked what he wanted for them, he laughed and said get out of here, take them!! When I got home and stripped them down, I was really happy to find out that both had excellent piston/cylinder/crank assemblies, and the 510 has electronic ignition and is pretty much like new inside! So I will be ressurecting that old 89cc 051AV, building a ported muffler, match porting the intake/exhaust, and maybe even media blast/powdercoat that whole saw! The 051 and 510 are almost totally interchangeable. Just what I needed, more parts for the tool shed stash.... :roll: