372XP clone: Your experiences?

[Gearbox]

I have never gotten a new saw and I have had many . So I buy used who do I support ? I buy new I buy from Sweden or Japan . I buy parts from my dealer he tells me OEM or knock off . Just my 2 cents its hard to buy American .

[Air Lad]

And while some guys say they can't do something IE repair/maintain a machine.. Others are learning via youtube/google etc
A little time learning can help one understand how these machines work and can be diagnosed and fixed .
Can be very satisfying seeing a condemned piece of equip running sweet again and knowing how it was done.
Just my 2 cents

[ChrisRoss]

I prefer learning through YouTube and online communities. A bit knowledge will help you run your saw smoother and makes it easy to do small repair by yourself. 

[Satamax]

 Following Weimdog's last post,. I would like to add. 

There is patents, usually, these last 20 years, with a possible five years extension. 

After those 25 years, the patent becomes public domain. And you can copy it, if you feel like it. 

I know, that some manufacturers copy old designs, and patent these, while they weren't supposed to. Like Randall Smith of mesa boogie. 

I don't know how much patents are in a 372, but most is old technology. 

And being a fan of the right to repair movement, i'm perfectly happy that some people make parts  for a lot of things. 

I wish i could find body panels, or an entire body for my toyota HJ61. The French government wants it off the road. Because it's a rust bucket. 

And there is no new "equivalent" of this vehicle anywhere in Europe.  So i will have to buy something i don't like.  To carry on lugging myself around. Dang ecologists!