dissecting an earthquake chainsaw

[trophyhunter]

I like your mod on the muffler Brian, that looks good actually and it saves trying to reinvent the screen hole. So you left the cat inside and didn't take the crimp seams apart and just drilled those two holes?

 

[Brian B.]

Yes, I jokingly call it a five minute muff job, more like 10 minutes, 8 of the ten shaking the shavings out of the darned thing, lol. The cat, well the remainder of the cat is in tact, and glos like an old automotive cig lighter when your running, kinda nifty. I will do the same on saw #2 if I even run saw #2, I am kicking around the idea of assembling saw #2 and making sure it cuts, then fogging it with sea foam and stabil or whatever to maintain the fuel syst integrity.. Taking all back apart, and storing away for a "survival/ the bell just got rung" implement. It would be handy in a catastrophe to have the peace of mind to know you have one brand spanking new saw sitting/ waiting to be used.

Yes, I'm one of them guys.

 

[trophyhunter]

That's exactly what I'm going to do with my spares. Gonna mod them, get them tuned and run them on a can of that ethanol free TruFuel 40:1 pre mix and just swap the bar and chain that's being used around to get them all ready for storage. Figured I could warm them up, stop the saw and pour out the fuel and start it again and let it idle to use up what's left in the carb.

Frankly, I don't see wearing one of these out anytime soon.

 

[milkman]

8:06 am On FedEx vehicle for delivery JEFFERSONVILLE, IN

Waitin' on the white truck sucks...

 

[Scoutillac]

Had a moment of weakness this morning and ordered 2 more 1 goes to our cabin to replace the one I confiscated due to family neglect, the other will be a test bed so I can teach myself to port I had 2 saws before I joined this devilish site a few months back, now I have 9

 

[Steve NW WI]

My chain looks like new but my file was Broken in half Im contemplating buying a 16" bar for it once the chain is shot, its quite soft.

I'm thinking the same, only to be able to share chains with my little Dolmar. I think this is the same mount as the small Poulans? I might have a 16" bar down in the shed already.

 

[Big_Wood]

i'm just gonna try go through the process of buying with paypal hoping they will ship to canada. if they won't they'll only refund me my money. saves the hassle of my buddy receiving and shipping for me.

 

[milkman]

Guess what... I'll report once I get a chance to look at it.

 

[Lark-o]

I'm thinking the same, only to be able to share chains with my little Dolmar. I think this is the same mount as the small Poulans? I might have a 16" bar down in the shed already.

Yeah k095 or A095 I think. Baileys has them on sale right now.

 

[Lark-o]

So I cut into my muffler today. I have a plan. We'll see if it materialized.

 

[Brian B.]

I cut wood today, my new chain cut really well.... For about 35 minutes. I ordered two new pro chains for both my saws, I was starting today- not going to cut lower than 1' off the ground, under 1', tough, it will have to wait and be manhandled high enough off ground to cut safely. So I'm cutting along, CS4518 is killing he wood, I get into a v shape down dip in this trunk.. (Pile of wood cutting for a neighbor, all the wood is relatively parallel to one another) I thought I could see clear enough to make this one cut... NOPE... There was a quartz grapefruit size rock hidden just so and I layed that new chain right into it without seeing it, I am sick about it. Tried to sharpen it back up but one side of the cutters are kinda fubar.

I need to get a good chain sharpener, the hand files for me aren't getting it.

(To make matters worse the PP5020 cut like a champion with the new chain, but the nose sprocket kept binding with sawdust, so not the finest day of cutting wood, got a bunch cut, but boy I wasn't getting any breaks from stupidity or equipment trouble.)

Where was I going with this?lol, the pro chain I ordered cut really well, but the chain that comes with the Earthquake cuts pretty good too in comparison.

 

[Brink79]

I cut wood today, my new chain cut really well.... For about 35 minutes. I ordered two new pro chains for both my saws, I was starting today- not going to cut lower than 1' off the ground, under 1', tough, it will have to wait and be manhandled high enough off ground to cut safely. So I'm cutting along, CS4518 is killing he wood, I get into a v shape down dip in this trunk.. (Pile of wood cutting for a neighbor, all the wood is relatively parallel to one another) I thought I could see clear enough to make this one cut... NOPE... There was a quartz grapefruit size rock hidden just so and I layed that new chain right into it without seeing it, I am sick about it. Tried to sharpen it back up but one side of the cutters are kinda fubar.

I need to get a good chain sharpener, the hand files for me aren't getting it.

(To make matters worse the PP5020 cut like a champion with the new chain, but the nose sprocket kept binding with sawdust, so not the finest day of cutting wood, got a bunch cut, but boy I wasn't getting any breaks from stupidity or equipment trouble.)

Where was I going with this?lol, the pro chain I ordered cut really well, but the chain that comes with the Earthquake cuts pretty good too in comparison.

I put the Harbor Freight sharpener on my bench and have never looked back, works great. Item 68221. When pulling out of a link I first pull it to the right a bit to make sure the grinding disk curve doesn't alter the link tip angle. With coupon you can get it for $30. I don't do rocks all the time but when I do it's to the bench - stay sharp my friends.

 

[Lark-o]

I'm trying to keep it cosmetically clean looking on the front side so I cut the case in the middle. Chopped out the middle. brazed on a piece of pipe, now I just have to weld it back together. I might farm that out, I'm pretty rusty in my welding skills.

 

[Brian B.]

I was just getting rea

I put the Harbor Freight sharpener on my bench and have never looked back, works great. Item 68221. When pulling out of a link I first pull it to the right a bit to make sure the grinding disk curve doesn't alter the link tip angle. With coupon you can get it for $30. I don't do rocks all the time but when I do it's to the bench - stay sharp my friends.

I was just getting ready o post on this, thanks

 

[milkman]

Got a chance to open the box and see what was inside. Saw had been gassed, no sawdust that I could find and the spacer is behind the clutch cover. The bar is new unused, but the chain was in the bottom of the box and had sap on the tie straps and the drive links had wear marks on the sides. Bar cover and scrench was in the box. Saw seems to have really good compression, but I didn't try to fire it up. I packed it all back in the box and will play with it later, knee surgery scheduled Wed.

 

[Brian B.]

Good luck with the surgery.

From what I can tell these saws do not appear to have decompression technology to aid start up.

 

[kc4sfe]

Anybody know what size those little screws at the bottom of the muffler are? I lost mine somewhere.........

 

[Brian B.]

I sure don't, one more reason to order a second saw

 

[Lark-o]

Anybody know what size those little screws at the bottom of the muffler are? I lost mine somewhere.........

I'll see if I can measure them tonight. They are either 4 or 5mm I think.

 

[Lark-o]

Did anybody verify the bar mount? A095 or a041?