Wow Chris, The big saw lord has been good to you.
Sweet 990G's, How many of them series you got now.
Lee
Sweet 990G's, How many of them series you got now.
Lee
Homelite Chainsaws
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I have a soft spot for these Lee:
900G x 2
909G x 1
909D x 1
990G x 3
995G x 1
Not all running yet, but on their way.
Regards,
Chris.
I doubt if any saw back then had electronic ignition.
8433jeff
Aftermarket connoisseur
I obviously can't speak as to Homelites, but many a yellow saw in the mid eighties left the factory sans points. I know of no points ever on the PM 600 line, started in 78. One of the selling "points".
I thought the Homelites we were referring to were older than that, maybe not.
Update: According to Acres site the 1050 and 1130 came out in 1972, doubt if much anything was electronic then except maybe your tv.
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8433jeff
Aftermarket connoisseur
Back then, I didn't care, as long as Sesame Street came on.
bergman 501
ArboristSite Member
Eccentric
Mister Wizard
Looks like I need to do some digging. I love going to those things. The Apple Blossom Festival in Sebastopol (at Ragle Park) is similar. The Early Day Gas Engine club guys always put on a good showing.
Do you know what it's called? Heck, I'm sure I can find something with google in a minute or two. Will do that late tonight when I get home from work (or at work if I can sneak a few minutes of net time on my break). Maybe I can get Norm to meet us there. If I'm going, I'll letcha know tomorrow what I'll be wearin' so we can keep an eye out for each other.
Off to #### shower and shave for work. Thank God it's friday!
You seem to be quite a bit younger than I. I had been working at a factory for 11 years in 1972, back when we had factories in the USA.
kmcinms
ArboristSite Guru
Well, I was hoping for good news, but I ended up with some bad news. I have some carnage on a Super XL and I need some help guys. One of the elders in my church enlisted me to resurrect his Super. I agreed to do the deed. So I went through the carb, fuel lines and pulled the flywheel to dress the points. It wasn't firing, or else I woulda left the flywheel alone. Well, here's the deal. I took the starter drive dogs off to make a flat plate to be used as a puller. I evidently inverted the dogs on installation. When I fired the booger off, I got some good carnage coming out of the stater housing and some nice sounds to go with it.
Anyone have a few spare pieces for a Super XL that I can beg. I have a 330, but have never pulled it apart to see if any of those parts would interchange, but I'm not holding my breath.
Looks like I need a flywheel, and a coil. Holler at me if you have anything I can use. Thanks a ton guys.
Kevin
Ahh, thanks for the old Dayton. Well I was scrounging around looking for some motorcycle parts in my shed and ran across a Dayton chainsaw I got from bro in law last year. Thing looks nearly identical to the Homie, so I pop the recoil cover off and pull the rotor off of it. The fins are a bit different and it is somewhat heavier than the Homie rotor, but it fits and runs well with it on there.
Is there any drawbacks to using this rotor on the Homie Super XL? Thanks.
I see I posted this in the swap meet section by mistake :redface: :msp_tongue:
Could not figure out how to put pictures in the mail.
Overall of the carb:
Close up of the fitting;
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Have seen another saw with a fitting and line down through the case. IPL shows a line from the CARB into the lower case.
Hal
Thank you for the advice. Saw started right up. It is a real beast!
Hal
Not a bad line up at all.
I have a very soft spot for them as well.
9-23 x 1
9-26 x 2
900G x 1
909G x 2
990G x 2
995G x 1
and a few parts saws.
All run but the 995G, and one 9-26 needs a bit of work.
Lee
8433jeff
Aftermarket connoisseur
72 was the first year in school, half a day kindergarten, right about now I suppose. Remember the teacher telling us she just came back from California, where the ocean was, and letting us taste some water she said tasted like the ocean. If thats what it tastes like, I've no need to go. First book sale I begged for and got a record of Ernie singing the rubber ducky song.
Having met you, I would've thought you were much older than that.
Dang kid LOL I got out of school 5 yrs. after you started! LOL
Came in a big box today.
Found it on the front porch. Someone must have lit a fire under the clerks in the K.C. KS Sort Facility.
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Checked the compression and spark thanks to A. Palmer Jr. donating a starter cup. Blew 120 psi and strong spark. Came with a good 20"(?) bar and some almost done 3/8" x 70dl.
Will try to get him to fire. Mmmmmmmmmmmm later today. Just looked at the clock.
Found it on the front porch. Someone must have lit a fire under the clerks in the K.C. KS Sort Facility.
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Checked the compression and spark thanks to A. Palmer Jr. donating a starter cup. Blew 120 psi and strong spark. Came with a good 20"(?) bar and some almost done 3/8" x 70dl.
Will try to get him to fire. Mmmmmmmmmmmm later today. Just looked at the clock.
Eccentric
Mister Wizard
Good deal Carl. Welcome to the C-5 club. Do I spy a sprocket nose bar? Cool. Make sure it's a large frame Homelite bar and not an XL-mount bar that somebody's been running on there. A quick thing to look for is whether the chain is or has been eating into the bar plates and bar mount pad on the drivecase or the clutch cover. The other thing to look for is whether the bar tail covers the entire oil slot on the drivecase. An XL-mount bar tail will often uncover part of the slot when the bar is slid towards the forward end of adjustment.
If it's an Oregon bar, you should see F014 if it's large frame, and D096 or D196 if it's XL-mount. Windsor (who made most of the Homelite branded bars) would be HO for big Homelite and UXL or TXL for XL-mount. As long as it oils fine, adjusts fine, and isn't letting the chain eat the saw..........then who cares what's on there though.
70DL of 3/8" does usually mean a 20" bar on a Homelite. Once you get that saw squared away and running........you need to replace that Briggs and Stratton oil cap with a Homelite cap. I may have an extra for you if you can't get one closer.
I'm with you on the late night/early morning thing. Just got home from work (I work swing-shift...............it's 0100Hrs here). Friday is great. Bourbon in hand. Relaxing. Getting caught up...
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Eccentric
Mister Wizard
Rubber ducky..............................you're the one...
Facinating. Around the time of that book sale, I was baking in the oven...
Facinating. Around the time of that book sale, I was baking in the oven...
The wife is away for the weekend so got a chance to fiddle with a few Homelites. First was a Super 1050 which needed a fuel system service, as I had not had it running since I got hold of it a while ago. I love these 1050 saws - they are a compact machine, not too heavy, and a decent amount of grunt for a vintage unit. I had the carb kit ready - she is running the SDC carb with the fixed High speed, but runs - as you boys in the US put it 'like a top'.
The second Homelite on the bench today, and still there is a Homelite 909G which needed a new HT lead. I managed to get her stripped down to the point where I could replace the lead, but did not have any epoxy left to secure the lead on the coil. The lead is all ready to roll though, so should have the beast back together tomorrow.
On another note - going to a rainforest region tomorrow with my Dad (its fathers day) to check out some big old Red Cedar trees. There are not too many old growth cedars around as these were heavily logged during the pioneer days. They didn't call it 'red gold' for nothing. I will try and get some good photo's to post over the next couple of days.
Chris.
The second Homelite on the bench today, and still there is a Homelite 909G which needed a new HT lead. I managed to get her stripped down to the point where I could replace the lead, but did not have any epoxy left to secure the lead on the coil. The lead is all ready to roll though, so should have the beast back together tomorrow.
On another note - going to a rainforest region tomorrow with my Dad (its fathers day) to check out some big old Red Cedar trees. There are not too many old growth cedars around as these were heavily logged during the pioneer days. They didn't call it 'red gold' for nothing. I will try and get some good photo's to post over the next couple of days.
Chris.
Found it on the front porch. Someone must have lit a fire under the clerks in the K.C. KS Sort Facility.
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Checked the compression and spark thanks to A. Palmer Jr. donating a starter cup. Blew 120 psi and strong spark. Came with a good 20"(?) bar and some almost done 3/8" x 70dl.
Will try to get him to fire. Mmmmmmmmmmmm later today. Just looked at the clock.
I'm glad to see you got the rest of the saw, I'd hate to have the starter cup and nothing else! The spark was the main thing on mine, some of those old plug wires are pretty awful looking too. I put mine inside shrink tubing to try to eliminate shorting, it didn't look like those plug wires were replaceable.
