I know it's not a chainsaw, but it's a close relative...
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I passed on a couple chainsaws at the swap meets today because nothing caught my interest. I came close to buying a MuCulloch-made Montgomery Ward saw, but some of the plastic was broken. It was a 16" model (if memory serves), and was a rebrand of one of the compact top handle versions like the 130, or one of its close relatives.
Here's an Echo ES-1000 leaf blower I bought today. I have the nozzle, it's just not in the pic. The seller claimed "yeah, it runs great. It's just out of gas." I thought "yeah right." It felt like it had compression, and it seemed like it would only need the normal repairs (new plug, fuel lines and maybe a carb kit), so I said OK. After some polite haggling I picked it up for $25.
I've been looking for a quality leaf blower, and in my area they're hard to find on Craigslist or the local swap meets. There are some low-end blowers, but it's rare to find any decent name brand units at a fair price. Today I found a Tanaka for $40, but it was one of the newer made-in-China models and was pretty rough. There were two identical Echos from two different sellers and I settled on this one.
So far I've gassed it up and got it to run, but poorly. I'm now replacing the plug and fuel lines. I'll do a little tuning and see if I need to rebuild the carb. I already found the manuals on the Echo website and found rebuild kits on ebay.