200T Build

[parrisw]

Here is my bone stock 200T, spark screen and all.

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[Hddnis]

Doesn't take a stopwatch to see those gains.



Mr. HE

 

[parrisw]

Doesn't take a stopwatch to see those gains.



Mr. HE

Ya, now that I've watched both side to side, it definitely looks better doesn't it!! It definitely felt better.

Thanks!

 

[Hddnis]

Ya, now that I've watched both side to side, it definitely looks better doesn't it!! It definitely felt better.

Thanks!

Doing just a little rough timing using the counter for the video it looks like the modded one is almost twice as fast. Certainly keeps the RPM's up good when you lean on it a little. That saw would be a real good candidate for a 20" bar and high climbing work, also 14" or 16" bars and working a hardwood take down. It gives me a smile just thinking about it.



Mr. HE

 

[parrisw]

Doing just a little rough timing using the counter for the video it looks like the modded one is almost twice as fast. Certainly keeps the RPM's up good when you lean on it a little. That saw would be a real good candidate for a 20" bar and high climbing work, also 14" or 16" bars and working a hardwood take down. It gives me a smile just thinking about it.



Mr. HE

ha ha, ya now your making me smile!! twice as fast eh!! I didn't expect that at all, I was just hoping for a little more power, and I know I got that. These 200T's wear 16" all the time around here, I even double cut with them bucking down trunks of big trees. When it gets too big, the ground guy sends up the 70cc saw, and sometimes even a 395, I've never worked with a 395 up a tree, buy my friend does a fair amount for huge Doug Fir.

 

[Hddnis]

Ya, taking down big firs is my specialty, I run the little saws till the bar is just too small. It really doesn't take too much longer to make the cuts and you have to save your strength for man handling those chunks once you get them cut. Just tipping a five foot chunk of green stem, say 20" diameter, can take a huge amount of strength. We do have some tricks like deep face cuts to move the hinge closer to the center of gravity, prying levers, two wedges screwed together, it all adds up to really hard work in the end, not matter how you do it. When your saw is the smallest, lightest, and easiest thing you deal with up top that is a good thing.




Mr. HE

 

[parrisw]

Ya, taking down big firs is my specialty, I run the little saws till the bar is just too small. It really doesn't take too much longer to make the cuts and you have to save your strength for man handling those chunks once you get them cut. Just tipping a five foot chunk of green stem, say 20" diameter, can take a huge amount of strength. We do have some tricks like deep face cuts to move the hinge closer to the center of gravity, prying levers, two wedges screwed together, it all adds up to really hard work in the end, not matter how you do it. When your saw is the smallest, lightest, and easiest thing you deal with up top that is a good thing.




Mr. HE

Ya for sure. My buddy has been up a big doug fir with a 395 and a 42" bar, chunking down rounds. Yes allot of work.

 

[epicklein22]

Ya, now that I've watched both side to side, it definitely looks better doesn't it!! It definitely felt better.

Thanks!

Wow, that thing is rockin! I might to put my grubby fingers in my next 200t cylinder and shave off some aluminum.

 

[parrisw]

Wow, that thing is rockin! I might to put my grubby fingers in my next 200t cylinder and shave off some aluminum.

Thanks. Ya its worth it if you can do the work yourself, or even if you don't mind having someone shave some metal off. Its a fun little saw.

 

[pgg]

Here's a 12" setup on some 14" logs, stock 200T's are savage little buggers with the restrictor screen removed, this one's running on crappy gas station dino-oil at 30:1 so excuse the fumes, 100% synthetic at 50:1 is the proper deal for these

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[willysmn]

200T mods

Holding the cylinder in the lathe must take a fixture of some sort due to its shape?
The piston is a stock piston, but with the material removed from the cylinder. it can be machined as shown to clear the cylinder but pop up in the combustion chamber?
The work looks good.

 

[parrisw]

Holding the cylinder in the lathe must take a fixture of some sort due to its shape?
The piston is a stock piston, but with the material removed from the cylinder. it can be machined as shown to clear the cylinder but pop up in the combustion chamber?
The work looks good.

Yes, I make a mandrel that fits inside the cylinder.

 

[willysmn]

200T mods

Making the mandrel to the required tolerance is almost more difficult than machining the cylinder off. Nice work.

 

[parrisw]

Making the mandrel to the required tolerance is almost more difficult than machining the cylinder off. Nice work.

Ya, you got to be careful when you get close, this one I wasn't paying attention and went a little by the tolerance I wanted but it still works fine.

 

[luvsaws]

Dang that is running well!
Nice work Will

 

[parrisw]

Dang that is running well!
Nice work Will

Thanks!

 

[ropensaddle]

Nice looking good parris

 

[parrisw]

Nice looking good parris

Thanks ROPE!! Not bad for a saw with a bunch of time on it. I'm curious as to what the compression is actually, I should check it.

 

[ropensaddle]

Thanks ROPE!! Not bad for a saw with a bunch of time on it. I'm curious as to what the compression is actually, I should check it.

I wonder too what is stock supposed to be mine was at 130 and is only seven or eight months old! I took carb off to clean screen out cause it was having issues put it back together screen was clean. It seems to be running ok now but 130 scared me!

 

[parrisw]

I wonder too what is stock supposed to be mine was at 130 and is only seven or eight months old! I took carb off to clean screen out cause it was having issues put it back together screen was clean. It seems to be running ok now but 130 scared me!

Wow, that is kinda low for that new, but I checked a buddy's saw with a bunch of time on it and it was 135. Maybe that's the norm, if I remember I'll check this hopped up one, and my stocker which only has maybe 6 tanks through it.