Converting from quick tensioner to standard

[stole]

Hi.

I have an old Florabest FKS 2200/8 which I'm hoping to re-purpose. I want to use it in a home made firewood processor. The saw is running fine, but the quick tensioner is broken.
I haven't found much about this type of tensioner, and it's hard to see where the problem is. To me it looks like the "sprocket"/"button" circled red, slips from the hole in the bar.
They have a similar looking tensioner at one of my local stores, but surprise surprise many of the reviews complain about how easy it breaks.

Does anyone know if it's possible to convert to a standard tension system, or a suggestion on how I can use the saw in a stand without the quick tensioner?

Pictures of my saw n this link.

 

[Michael E]

Converting means exchanging the clutch cover for a cover with built in manual chain tensioner. Those covers are model specific. I doubt that your saw was ever offered with a manual tensioner, and that usually means that you cannot convert it.

 

[Chainsaw Pete]

The saw's bar tensions the chain by moving in and out of the saw body. Your plastic tensioner uses a pin to engage the bar and the spiral to move the sliding part in or out. Manual tensioners use a screw to move a block with the pin machined on the face in or out to accomplish the same thing. In order to convert your saw, you will have to machine the saw body to accept either a homemade tensioning device or something you pirated from another saw.

If you happen to be a machinist and have a milling machine, this might not be a difficult task. For the rest of us, however, it would probably be faster if not cheaper to find a project saw and rebuild that for your purpose.