[AT] OT: McCulloch Chainsaw

[Steve W.]

Yeah MTD has a nasty habit with new dealers getting shut out of the 
supply chain prior to the time they joined the network. When they bought 
out Troy-Bilt they tossed a LOT of new inventory to scrapyards. They 
were the models that MTD wasn't interested in. All they really wanted 
out of Troy-Bilt was the tiller line and the name. Most of the rest were 
all competition items.

Larry D Goss wrote:
> Right.  I ran into that problem when I picked up this unit and rehabilitated 
> it before shipping it to Cecil.  I have an old-time dealer in the 
> neighborhood who is adept at having access to Troy-Bilt parts that are NLA 
> everywhere.  For that reason, Cecil contacted me to try to locate a drive 
> lever lock on the handlebars that broke on his.  I figured it is worth a 
> try.  When I was working "down the road a piece" at a Case-IH dealership, we 
> often went through the older lawn mower dealer for Troy-Bilt parts because 
> he had access to them that we didn't have even though we also had a 
> Troy-Bilt franchise because of MTD.  That's the way it works sometimes.
> 
> Larry



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Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York