Bg357
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What's the difference between these two saws? Is one better than the other?
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Echo CS-520 or CS-5000 ? What's the difference
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What i know is that the CS 5000 is the earlier model. Mid Eighties there were the Echo EVL types with their white chainbrake lever. After that series came the CS 4000, CS 4500, CS 5000, CS 5500, CS 6700 CS 8000, vertical split mag. crankcase, higher revs than the EVL models. Cylinder upright instead of the laying cylinder of the most EVL models.
The CS 520 came after that series. Do not know the year exactly, would say mid till end nineties. There were the CS 510, 520 and 530, they had a lot in common. The engine was a clamshell type. Users of the saw are all happy with it. Good power and reliable.
Both are good saws, the 520 is the newer type.
I have experience with the CS 4500, have three of them, a very good allround saw.
Greetings from Holland
Jos
What i know is that the CS 5000 is the earlier model. Mid Eighties there were the Echo EVL types with their white chainbrake lever. After that series came the CS 4000, CS 4500, CS 5000, CS 5500, CS 6700 CS 8000, vertical split mag. crankcase, higher revs than the EVL models. Cylinder upright instead of the laying cylinder of the most EVL models.
The CS 520 came after that series. Do not know the year exactly, would say mid till end nineties. There were the CS 510, 520 and 530, they had a lot in common. The engine was a clamshell type. Users of the saw are all happy with it. Good power and reliable.
Both are good saws, the 520 is the newer type.
I have experience with the CS 4500, have three of them, a very good allround saw.
Greetings from Holland
Jos
SawTroll
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The 520 is a clamshell design (well, at least the 530 is) - not sure about the 5000, Anyway, your best bet is to just stay well clear of any Echo saw....:msp_wink:
Bg357
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Too late! I'm already looking at my second one. Old Husky just sits in the shop now, won't even start anymore...
Which is weird cause it started fine after sitting for a couple months, I cut a tree and put it away. Tried to start it a week later and it won't fire for nothin'. Who cares, I got an Echo that starts on the first pull everytime. Anybody want the first 61 off the line sometime back in the 70's? :msp_thumbdn:
Which is weird cause it started fine after sitting for a couple months, I cut a tree and put it away. Tried to start it a week later and it won't fire for nothin'. Who cares, I got an Echo that starts on the first pull everytime. Anybody want the first 61 off the line sometime back in the 70's? :msp_thumbdn:
SawTroll
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Doesn't sound like you know a lot about chainsaws, if starting them is your main issue.....
Bg357
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Doesn't sound like you know a lot about chainsaws, if starting them is your main issue.....
Give you beer?!? You're never supposed to feed a troll!
I know enough to know that if they won't start consistently, they aren't much use. Kind of an expensive doorstop. I'm not interested in wasting time with a tempermental saw. If I wanted to tinker with saws, instead of cut wood, I'd work in a saw shop.
Thanks for the worthless advice though...
Doesn't sound like you know a lot about chainsaws, if starting them is your main issue.....
Having actually run both saws unlike some that give thier opinon the CS5000 is a slpit crankcase design with decent power for 50cc, the CS 510, 520, 530 are a WELL built clamshell engine that's about 10 times easyier to work on than a MS290 and those saws flat out rip with just a muff modd, ported watch Masterminds vid. I'd take the CS510 520 530 anyday over the CS5000 even with the 5000 being a split crankcase. Steve
bryanr2
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The builder of my Echo 520 said himself that the 520 was a 346xp killer. (the post is there in the thread) Mastermind meets the Echo 520.:msp_wink:
Your best bet is to ignore anything SawTroll says about brands other than Husky. Echo makes a fine saw in my experience.
Bg357
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I understand, every village has its idiot...
He's definitely not an idiot -- clearly knows a lot about many saws -- but the brand bashing is a problem that detracts from a lot of threads. It's just not helpful.
The 49cc cs-5000 was manufactured from 1992-2001 and weights 11.5LBS dry with no bar and chain.
The 50.1cc cs-520 was manufactured from 2004-2008 and weights 10.5LBS dry with no bar and chain.
As mentioned the cs-5000 has the vertical split crankcase with a bolt on cylinder whereas the 510-520-530 engines are a clamshell quad transfer port design bolted into a steel frame.
We have a couple of the 520's and believe me they are the first to go out and the last to come back, if that tells you anything. Once you open up the muffler and add a little more fuel they run exceptionally well. Basically a very dependable saw.
The 50.1cc cs-520 was manufactured from 2004-2008 and weights 10.5LBS dry with no bar and chain.
As mentioned the cs-5000 has the vertical split crankcase with a bolt on cylinder whereas the 510-520-530 engines are a clamshell quad transfer port design bolted into a steel frame.
We have a couple of the 520's and believe me they are the first to go out and the last to come back, if that tells you anything. Once you open up the muffler and add a little more fuel they run exceptionally well. Basically a very dependable saw.
