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Homelite XL auto. Customer says chain won't turn.
Yup, locked up. Notice it is a hard nose bar and chain is tight as a drum.
Backed off adjuster about a half turn and ran saw. Did oil the chain. Cut well.
Me thinks no one has seen or adjusted a hard nose bar in 10 years around here.
Used to be every other bar in 81.
Yup, locked up. Notice it is a hard nose bar and chain is tight as a drum.
Backed off adjuster about a half turn and ran saw. Did oil the chain. Cut well.
Me thinks no one has seen or adjusted a hard nose bar in 10 years around here.
Used to be every other bar in 81.
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Most run sprocket tipped bars with the chain too tight and most would be on the phone to the occupational health and safety crew if they saw correct tension on a hardnosed bar chain.
Too tight is just the happy medium between too loose from leaning on a dull chain for 5 minutesMost run sprocket tipped bars with the chain too tight and most would be on the phone to the occupational health and safety crew if they saw correct tension on a hardnosed bar chain.
Someone dropped off these two small Skil models, thought I'd give them a bit of a clean up before putting them in the display.
They are pretty interesting the way they are designed and put together. Not bad to work on since I didn't have to try and get into the oilers.
One has an interesting low kick-back chain similar to that used on some of the old Pioneers.
Mark
They are pretty interesting the way they are designed and put together. Not bad to work on since I didn't have to try and get into the oilers.
One has an interesting low kick-back chain similar to that used on some of the old Pioneers.
Mark
My tree service neighbor seems to have an inexhaustible supply of discarded saws he brings me sometimes as parts saws for free, sometimes to fix. Came by late last night stressed out because he had a removal job today and three of his saws broke their starter cords the same day. Loves his Echo CS-310 he said I worked on (though honestly don't remember it) just needed the starter handle reattached. Chain was ridiculously loose and no room left to tension it so I removed a link and put it back together and much better. MS171 trigger rod fell off again and handle partially came apart that I just fixed. Terrible design, just clip on handle moulding that seems to come apart at a moment's notice. Had those two saws ready for him in the morning. I made up a chain from the free roll I got of Archer .043 LP and put it on the new 16" Tsumura bar for the dead MS251 he gave me I fixed up for myself last month. That's a great little saw. He also left a 338XPT he said I could have that he'd never had running. Seems a bad fuel line, primer bulb doesn't draw fuel, with fuel in cylinder it coughed to life easy. Fixed fuel lines, cleaned carb, runs but seems a little rich yet with hi jet screwed in to limiters capacity and won't idle at all. One of the carb diaphragms was completely brittle, ordered a carb kit. He left an MS250 as well for starter cord repair, which turned out not to have spark once I got that done. Also left me an MS211 with a missing muffler to cannibalize for the other saws, but probably not much wrong with it either, compression is fine. So far took it's starter cord for the 250, and the clutch cover for the 251, but will probably get the parts to fix it too as I don't like to have any parts saws, just working completes.
Something weird I've experienced with both the 250 and 251, and a bit with my 361, but not any other saws - the 250 and 251 were initially incredibly hard to pull so I couldn't start them, I assumed from leaking carbs and hydrolock. But taking the plug out and clearing the cylinder never helped. It was only when I turned the flywheel with a drill for a sustained amount of time that they freed them up so I could pull start them. Maybe just a matter of the rings needing lubrication. My 361 is still hit or miss in starting, sometimes jerks out of my hand, sometimes I can pull it just fine, but often easier starting with decomp valve open on it.
Something weird I've experienced with both the 250 and 251, and a bit with my 361, but not any other saws - the 250 and 251 were initially incredibly hard to pull so I couldn't start them, I assumed from leaking carbs and hydrolock. But taking the plug out and clearing the cylinder never helped. It was only when I turned the flywheel with a drill for a sustained amount of time that they freed them up so I could pull start them. Maybe just a matter of the rings needing lubrication. My 361 is still hit or miss in starting, sometimes jerks out of my hand, sometimes I can pull it just fine, but often easier starting with decomp valve open on it.
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We cleaned up a few of the saws I recently picked up at auction. First up, Von Ruden hydraulic saw.
The Mall and Remington are very closely related.
Mark
The Mall and Remington are very closely related.
Mark
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Currently a stihl ms261c, but there's always something.
Need a project Mark?? Lol
