pianotuna wrote:
Gdetrailer,
My experience with Boliy was a disaster from the get go.
Understood.
Some knockoffs are better than others for sure, but to place ALL into one lump that states that ALL Chinese knockoffs are bad isn't right at all.
But, the chances are extremely high that the mechanical bits like a recoil are the same as OTHER Chinese clones of Honda engines.
Most clones especially now days are simply rebadged versions with a different color of plastic, perhaps a slightly different face but mechanically the engine is a common Honda clone design.
Once you know what model of Honda it has been cloned from, looking up mechanical parts gets easier.
Now electronically, that gets a bit more difficult depending on what factory designed those..
You can save money on the clone versions, but with the understanding that it just very well may be a throwaway piece when it dies.
However, the same can be said about the name brands as they continually tighten up the supply chains, lean down the parts over time that are slow moving and eventually you will face the very same issue of where can you find a part..
Honda, is very heavily invested in what is called "lean manufacturing using 6S processes", they don't keep every part in stock for everything they built since the inception of their company. I recently left my job at a company that hired one of Hondas big wigs that was attempting to "Hondaize" my companies manufacturing.. Tossing out millions of dollars in parts that were needed to support our existing customer base equipment.. Most of those parts were custom designed and built to our specs with long lead times and some electronic parts cannot ever be made again due to RHoS (lead free laws)..
Another example, yrs ago, I had to throwaway a pretty nice 5 yr old name brand 18" chainsaw once I wore out my last drive sprocket, it was orphaned when the company was bought out multiple times over the yrs. Use a special drive sprocket unlike anything else which had a splined shaft that went back into the saw and that spline drove the chain oiler.. Each progressive buyout meant the new companies dumped and scrapped ALL parts from the previous company.. No third party vendors like Stens even had the sprocket I needed..
