Hello folks
Just found your site and wanted to commend you on it...it is great. A friend posed a challenge and gave me this box which contained a saw. he said if you can get it running you can have it. Being a chronic garage tinkerer, I took him up on it. Box had the 16" bar sticking out of it with the chain in a ball at the bottom , the handle off and motor in tact) He mentioned that it had not run in at least 6 years and it was his grandads saw). I found the saw to be a Stihl S10 (found that model out by scrubbing the crap off of it). I spent 3 night stripping it down and cleaning it). First off I gave it a pull, ...lots of spark. i thought...well this is going good...then gave it a good cleaning. Replaced everything (put new gas in it of course), and thought to fire it up. Was expecting to make my ribs sore from tuggin and believing the carb would have to be rebuilt sittin that long. But no. Gave a squirt in the carb, and 5 pulls later she coughed and died. Choked it off, and low and behold....contact. Wow...purred like a kitten. A couple of blasts on the throttle she lit right up.
I only need a saw to cut up downed limbs and a bit of campfire wood, so even an electric saw (Stihl and and Husky owner are hacking now I bet) would more than do the trick.
This saw is great ( for something older than myself). Slap a new chain on it, and I will be looking for things to cut down or up....hehe.
One thing i do ask you folks. There is a link posted in this forum that gives the specs on this saw, but it is not active anymore, does anyone have this saved on their PC???. i would like to learn more.
This saw has made a Stihl man out of me. If it can fire up from #1, being over 35 years old and run great (no smoke, no bogging), and #2, sitting in a damp dingy garage for over six years with out being turned over...well...that says a lot.
Thats my bit....I'm off to cut some thing.
PS...any info about this saw would be great....Is it a rare or quite common saw???
cheers, folks
Matt:greenchainsaw:
Just found your site and wanted to commend you on it...it is great. A friend posed a challenge and gave me this box which contained a saw. he said if you can get it running you can have it. Being a chronic garage tinkerer, I took him up on it. Box had the 16" bar sticking out of it with the chain in a ball at the bottom , the handle off and motor in tact) He mentioned that it had not run in at least 6 years and it was his grandads saw). I found the saw to be a Stihl S10 (found that model out by scrubbing the crap off of it). I spent 3 night stripping it down and cleaning it). First off I gave it a pull, ...lots of spark. i thought...well this is going good...then gave it a good cleaning. Replaced everything (put new gas in it of course), and thought to fire it up. Was expecting to make my ribs sore from tuggin and believing the carb would have to be rebuilt sittin that long. But no. Gave a squirt in the carb, and 5 pulls later she coughed and died. Choked it off, and low and behold....contact. Wow...purred like a kitten. A couple of blasts on the throttle she lit right up.
I only need a saw to cut up downed limbs and a bit of campfire wood, so even an electric saw (Stihl and and Husky owner are hacking now I bet) would more than do the trick.
This saw is great ( for something older than myself). Slap a new chain on it, and I will be looking for things to cut down or up....hehe.
One thing i do ask you folks. There is a link posted in this forum that gives the specs on this saw, but it is not active anymore, does anyone have this saved on their PC???. i would like to learn more.
This saw has made a Stihl man out of me. If it can fire up from #1, being over 35 years old and run great (no smoke, no bogging), and #2, sitting in a damp dingy garage for over six years with out being turned over...well...that says a lot.
Thats my bit....I'm off to cut some thing.
PS...any info about this saw would be great....Is it a rare or quite common saw???
cheers, folks
Matt:greenchainsaw:
