Clutch fun

[Old2stroke]

A previous posting reminded me of an entertaining mistake a lot of us have probably made, namely reving up a saw with a loose clutch and no bar and chain. What is the most spectacular performance you have achieved with this act of stupidity? Mine simply dropped to the floor, shot out the open garage door, down the lane crossed the street and disappeared into the weeds on the other side.

 

[Andyshine77]

Revved a saw without the clutch drum on, luckily I realized it pretty quickly and all I did was lose a clutch spring band, it went flying into outer space.

 

[holeycow]

Haven’t done that one yet.

thanks to here, I’ve been warned..

 

[HarleyT]

I had an old Homelite EZ that I replaced a sprocket on, and for some reason I couldn't get the clutch to stay on the saw. I took it out to my test bench and revved the saw with no bar and chain, to see if I finally had it back on correctly.
I gave it a rev, and let the throttle off, and watched the clutch spin off and drop to the ground. It bounced
a few times, still spinning at a few thousand rpms, until on the last bounce, it bit in the ground, took off
like a bullet and down Hilltop Road, going under moving cars. I watched it go on down the road until it was too far away to see.

I didn't even go looking for it, I was kind of afraid to........

 

[TRTermite]

I had an old Homelite EZ that I replaced a sprocket on, and for some reason I couldn't get the clutch to stay on the saw. I took it out to my test bench and revved the saw with no bar and chain, to see if I finally had it back on correctly.
I gave it a rev, and let the throttle off, and watched the clutch spin off and drop to the ground. It bounced
a few times, still spinning at a few thousand rpms, until on the last bounce, it bit in the ground, took off
like a bullet and down Hilltop Road, going under moving cars. I watched it go on down the road until it was too far away to see.

I didn't even go looking for it, I was kind of afraid to........

Ihatedoingthis confessun thing.. BUTT I had the luck of no one getting hurt when I had a little XL and I forgot the drum wasn't on just wanted to see if it would fire ... Like I said I forgot for the moment.. and rapped it up then it started to shake BAD I got it shut off and something landed about 10 feet in front of me ... the broken piece of clutch.. Sceeery.

 

[rob066]

Yep did it on a Husqvarna 266. I reved her and kaboom. Parts went flying everywhere. What was bad it was an early 266 with the coarse thread clutch. They are hard to find. I wont do that again.