Thanks guys, I really do love this thing. You would probably cringe to what I paid though. I'm unsure what to do with it yet though, I was thinking just give it a good cleanup and leave it original, and get it running. Doughtfull I will use it to cut wood though.
Any Ideas on what to use to clean it up. I use allot of Super Clean but that stuff can fade paint really bad, and I don't want to do that with this saw.
Normally I just use the blow gun and the air compressor to clean the dust and other stuff from normal cutting, until I got a saw in here that was that badly caked. It was even hard to scrape with a chisel.
I went to my big mechanic's tool box, and got my engine cleaning kit, i use to clean engines of tractors. It's a blow gun that operates with air, and has a 2ft suction tube, that you insert into a jug of Var sol. I had that Chain Saw clean in no time. The air forced the Var sol into the gunk, loosened and soften up the gunk, and washed it away, leaving the saw nice and clean.
You have to watch that you don't blow the dust, and gunk where you don't want it, like in your carburetor, or exhaust manifold.
When I clean my Chain Saws from now on, I'm going to wash them this way. Does a really good job as well. Like Jerry said, it's not harm full to the paint. Bruce.
