With a brake!
Jonsered Chainsaws
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altatim
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thats broken unfortunately. Is there any significance to it? I know lots of these older saws had them in Canada at least.
I've never seen a functioning brake on those models, but as I understand it the brake consisted of a mechanical "plunger" that pressed against the clutch drum, as well as a switch that killed the ignition.
I don't have any good photos but if you look at the saw with the covers off you can see how the mechanical brake was intended to work.
Mark
I don't have any good photos but if you look at the saw with the covers off you can see how the mechanical brake was intended to work.
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Yep they were a dealer only installed option on the 621 and other models. I have seen a couple functioning ones over the years but they were not liked by most (all) cutters. The ign cutout was the most despised and the first thing to be disabled. Though it did stop the engine it also meant having to restart, generally deep in a brush pile. It wasn't so much a switch as it was just a wire attached to the spring loaded steel brake shoe which rode in a plastic guide tube above the clutch drum. When the brake was activated the shoe would ground the ign out on the drum. All in all the whole endevor was a failed attempt. At the time all the pro cutters were very used to not having any form of chain brake and and generally hated the whole idea as just one more thing to cause unessary grief and add to the cost of a saw.
altatim
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I pulled off the clutch cover last night and realized that I just misunderstood the inner workings. It turns out that the chain brake works just fine!
I can see where killing the saw was a real bad idea. I'm certainly no authority on chain brakes, as I have only one saw with one-the 2094. I don't remember much about them besides being built into the case or the clutch cover and some of their pros/cons.......avoided them like the plague.
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Old got to play alongside newer yesterday evening.
930 Super obtained recently went real well- till I clipped a few pebbles in the bark (trees were dragged and placed by an excavator after they were dropped), so instead of field sharpening or pushing a dull chain- got the 2186 out the back of the truck.
In all fairness- from an unbiased user perspective- the 2186 is nicer and more comfortable- but the 930 sounds cooler!
930 Super obtained recently went real well- till I clipped a few pebbles in the bark (trees were dragged and placed by an excavator after they were dropped), so instead of field sharpening or pushing a dull chain- got the 2186 out the back of the truck.
In all fairness- from an unbiased user perspective- the 2186 is nicer and more comfortable- but the 930 sounds cooler!
I'm certainly not one to comment on the newer saws, but if the 2094 is any indication of refinery and/or improvements, I'd have to believe big cc saws have gotten more comfortable to run and smoother overall. I hear that a lot, but I also wonder how many guys making a living with the present big cc saws have run the older ones as well day in and day out. I believe that a real comparison would be a week with one and then the other.
Running these vintage saws professionally, I HAD to have at least four saws on hand. I couldn't take the chance of failure from older saws. As I mentioned once, I got down to one saw due to a perfect storm of unusual circumstances on one job. 95% of the time, however, I never touched the other two.
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I hear you, back in the day- on any given day- always two saws available to me- unfortunately only one was a Jonsered as I was the Pear in a bucket of Apples, was too late to board the 910-930 train and ran 2094 falling- but 066 was the backup.
Pain in the butt swapping brands from number 1- master controls being back to front and all.
