A friend of mind gave me a Remington Mighty Mite Batam and said it ran. It had been setting a while so I put in fresh fuel, but I couldn't get it to start. It seems pretty hard to crank for such a small saw. I don't know anything about these saws, but I would like to have a saw this size. I was hoping one of you guys could give me some history on the Mighty Mite saws. Also, is it worth fixing up and where would be the place to start to get it running?
Remington Mighty Mite Batam
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Does it look like one of these?
Pioneerguy600
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Yours might be same model as a friend owned in the early '80s. As was his way, he bought it primarily because it was really cheap on special at Bradlees.
He got what he paid for: noisy, way under-powered, with a clutch that just wouldn't clutch. It'd slip at the slightest provocation.
When we'd go scavenging downers, I'd notice him staring at my Echo cs-315, almost longingly.
From what I've seen, you'd be far ahead with a Wild-Thang. The Remington might be a collectible, though; wish I knew more about the history- there is a little in David Lee's book "Chainsaws, A History" but not much about the latter days of Remington saws (DESA Industries).
For it to run, you need:
1. compression- run a comp. test- it under 100 psi warm, quit. (Hair-dryer heating?)
2. spark- pull plug and ground base to engine, crank it; should see/hear healthy blue spark. (Plan on replacing plug up front; magneto & points ignition susceptible to set of probs.)
3. fuel & air- if the above ok, couple of DROPS of fuel in carb should enable it to fire. If so, and it then stops, replace fuel filter and fuel line. If still NG, "mexican rebuild" of carb would entail pulling carb, carefully removing covers, cleaning mesh filter on pump side, and checking condition of diaphragms. Final recourse would be to fully rebuild carb. (Clean carb exterior first; pays to be anal here.)
