rusty929
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Hi all, I have for many years had a passion for all things mechanical, and collect everything from old stationery and steam engines to old marine engines and outboard motors, as well as all the associated literature and items like tools and oil cans that go along with it. Now it seems I have developed an interest in old chainsaws, something I have always found interesting but never bothered to collect. How may of us wish we had shown an interest years earlier when they were cheaper and more plentiful...
I have just found and joined the forum after googling for info on my not-that-old 32cc Ryobi Chainsaw.
I bought her a few years ago at a swapmeet for $10 with no spark, in the box was a new Oregon bar and chain so it was a bargain even without the powerplant!
We don't have a wood fire and have had no need for a chainsaw in the past so it got put away and forgotten, however we now want to remove some trees which are too large to cut down by hand and too small to justify paying a specialist, so I dug out the little Ryobi and decided to investigate why it wouldn't spark. I found the coil to be faulty, so I started searching online for a replacement part but the model RGS 3214 (Ryobi Garden Saw 32cc 14") doesn't show up anywhere. Ryobi don't recognise it any longer and their agents were no help at all. After noticing the Alpina name on the magneto coil and Made in Italy on both the coil and flywheel, I thought I'd google "Alpina 32cc chainsaws" and came across a thread here which showed a Castor 300 which looked identical, and a mention that Castor and Alpina were in fact the same company. Further searching found that these were also branded as a Remington Mighty Mite, and here in Australia (with green plastic, not red) as Ryobis. All later model Ryobi chainsaws look to be of their own design, so I now think my saw is probably from the late 1980s to early 1990s. I have since found a seller in the UK who can supply a new after market coil however at almost 50UKpounds I am hoping someone here can direct me to an American seller who has more realistic prices. Intersetingly I see there is a Remington saw of the same model for sale on ebay at the moment, which also has no spark, add to this the fact that my saw is in very near new condition in every respect and spotless inside the covers, I suspect these models may have had some coil issues?? I'll post some photos of the various aliases of this saw after my unit is re-assembled.
Any help with sourcing a relacement coil would be much appreciated.
I also have a large collection of photos of old chainsaws taken at numerous vintage machinery rallies here in Australia, which I'll post in the future as I'm sure some of the makes and models may not be well known in America.
I have just found and joined the forum after googling for info on my not-that-old 32cc Ryobi Chainsaw.
I bought her a few years ago at a swapmeet for $10 with no spark, in the box was a new Oregon bar and chain so it was a bargain even without the powerplant!
We don't have a wood fire and have had no need for a chainsaw in the past so it got put away and forgotten, however we now want to remove some trees which are too large to cut down by hand and too small to justify paying a specialist, so I dug out the little Ryobi and decided to investigate why it wouldn't spark. I found the coil to be faulty, so I started searching online for a replacement part but the model RGS 3214 (Ryobi Garden Saw 32cc 14") doesn't show up anywhere. Ryobi don't recognise it any longer and their agents were no help at all. After noticing the Alpina name on the magneto coil and Made in Italy on both the coil and flywheel, I thought I'd google "Alpina 32cc chainsaws" and came across a thread here which showed a Castor 300 which looked identical, and a mention that Castor and Alpina were in fact the same company. Further searching found that these were also branded as a Remington Mighty Mite, and here in Australia (with green plastic, not red) as Ryobis. All later model Ryobi chainsaws look to be of their own design, so I now think my saw is probably from the late 1980s to early 1990s. I have since found a seller in the UK who can supply a new after market coil however at almost 50UKpounds I am hoping someone here can direct me to an American seller who has more realistic prices. Intersetingly I see there is a Remington saw of the same model for sale on ebay at the moment, which also has no spark, add to this the fact that my saw is in very near new condition in every respect and spotless inside the covers, I suspect these models may have had some coil issues?? I'll post some photos of the various aliases of this saw after my unit is re-assembled.
Any help with sourcing a relacement coil would be much appreciated.
I also have a large collection of photos of old chainsaws taken at numerous vintage machinery rallies here in Australia, which I'll post in the future as I'm sure some of the makes and models may not be well known in America.
