got 2 hcs here, if ya need anything.
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Thanks Pete!
huck01955
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European, I'm guessing.
cdn. hen's tooth right there.
huck01955
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They wear made hear in the Peterborough never went into production . And wear never sold to the public from what I understand
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Hear is the vin tag 
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JJ would love to see that.
Nice find Joe. Did you dig it up on Oak Island?
huck01955
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No I dug it up at the old Peterborough dump . And its a nice runner started the second pull
ML12
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FWIW mine had the standard HL carburetor in it.
Right you are, I pulled the reed block out to find it cracked on both sides of the brass inserts on both of them. Beveled the cracks out with a dremel and am JB welding it up for now to see if that fixes it. If it does or dosent fix it, I'll be looking for a new reed block.
p61 western
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I have had good luck with JB weld on the reed blocks, it seems that they are all cracked at the same place.
I've used a soldering iron with a fine tip to remelt the plastic in the cracks as well.
ML12
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put a velocity stack and foam filter on my other P50 this weekend. I want to trade the my other half wrap one with a 24in bar, along with a few other project saws. I think I'd like either a husky 2100/something of that family of saws or stihl 038 super/mag/... but it would have to be a local deal.
http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/pioneer-p50-others.304034/
http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/pioneer-p50-others.304034/
sold a 038s not long ago, traded off a 2101, too. anything else yer lookin for? what else ya tradin?
edit: blind, seen link after postin'
edit: blind, seen link after postin'
ML12
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^ let me know if you come across any more of those saws
hillwilliam
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After years of doing just fine with Swedish saws, I got my first Pioneer, a P51, in the early eighties. I immediately did some port work and other stuff and was impressed that it would outrun my 2100 Husky, at least in 28" bar situations. I cut more timber with it than any of my many other saws and raced it on weekends for a few years. It would usually win in the 5-cube and 6-cube classes in those days. It would occasionally be beaten by another P51 and was eventually beaten by a Jonsereds 920 built by Ace Morgan. The P51/ 52 ended up being my absolute favorite saw ever.
I'd rebuilt it at least a couple of times over the years, but last summer it had a catastrophic failure while finishing up a big load of firewood. Autopsy eventually revealed a broken wrist pin bearing cage. Doesn't seem like all that long ago the whole top end was new. I was thinking to just let it go and not rebuild, but the good gentleman in Arizona convinced me to build again and supplied me with what I needed from an old USFS firefighter saw.
It doesn't seem as strong as it had been before it blew up (it would almost keep up with my 655BP - or I could at least mention the two in the same sentence), but it should gain some when the rings are fully seated. Anyway, I have my favorite saw back, I'm happy, and it's now a P52! Looks like I'm running out of bar oil in the Inter-tube video above.
It's kind of like Abe Lincoln's ax my father showed me when I was little: It had needed four new heads and seven new handles along the way, but he figured it was still Abe Lincoln's ax.
Nice job hillwilliam, I can hear those reeds working.
I feel sorry for you poor SOB's that have to survive in those 49 deg temps..
-3 right here at work at 4:30 am with like 100 mph wind.
Great runner! No saw I have feels better balance wise or fit on my hands than the larger P series saws. Great bark to those P51/52 saws.
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