All the other saws are running good so I had to play with this one. My brother bought it years ago but its seen very little use since then. It was apparently worked through when he bought it.
It's got a 20 hard nose inch bar, I put on a new carlton full chisel blade and went to try it in some big popular. Starts and runs fine but it had no torque. Yet it sounded about right.
I do not have a compression tester that will work on small engines. Just an automotive one.
I found that the carb screws were only 3/4 turn or less from lightly seated. I put them both to 1.5 turns out and went from there, both hi and low are within 1/4 turn from 1.5, I believe in opposite directions now. It has way more power now. But if you push it hard will wants to stall in bigger stuff.
The only thing I have to compare it to as far as a big saw is a dolmar 6100 also with a 20 inch bar, carlton full chissel with the small bumper in front of the raker, which the chain on the 123 do not have. The chain on the 6100 seems less aggressive. Seems. I was alone so no stopwatch.
The 6100 cannot be stopped. Crazy amounts of torque with a 20 buried. The 123 is a bigger saw but seems if you push it it wants to stall.
Maybe it's the chain I could try swapping them. Or have someone time cuts cause I know the smoothness of the new dolmars is deceiving.
Or my carb settings of 1.5 turns out and tune from there are slightly off. It just seems it's missing some power. I'd sleep better at night if I could get it to where I think it should be.
These things apparently have a governed carb. where does this play into the equation?
Also I assume the hard nose bar is costing me a little power. How much?
It's got a 20 hard nose inch bar, I put on a new carlton full chisel blade and went to try it in some big popular. Starts and runs fine but it had no torque. Yet it sounded about right.
I do not have a compression tester that will work on small engines. Just an automotive one.
I found that the carb screws were only 3/4 turn or less from lightly seated. I put them both to 1.5 turns out and went from there, both hi and low are within 1/4 turn from 1.5, I believe in opposite directions now. It has way more power now. But if you push it hard will wants to stall in bigger stuff.
The only thing I have to compare it to as far as a big saw is a dolmar 6100 also with a 20 inch bar, carlton full chissel with the small bumper in front of the raker, which the chain on the 123 do not have. The chain on the 6100 seems less aggressive. Seems. I was alone so no stopwatch.
The 6100 cannot be stopped. Crazy amounts of torque with a 20 buried. The 123 is a bigger saw but seems if you push it it wants to stall.
Maybe it's the chain I could try swapping them. Or have someone time cuts cause I know the smoothness of the new dolmars is deceiving.
Or my carb settings of 1.5 turns out and tune from there are slightly off. It just seems it's missing some power. I'd sleep better at night if I could get it to where I think it should be.
These things apparently have a governed carb. where does this play into the equation?
Also I assume the hard nose bar is costing me a little power. How much?
