McCulloch Chain Saws

[heimannm]

Perhaps you will recognize something here...recent e-Bay and road trip finds

Not mine but pretty cool I'd say...

And some of the things I did manage to get home...

Mark

 

[heimannm]

A little bit more

Bars are all 10 Series McCulloch.

Not shown are a couple of NOS spline clutch drums in the box for the large frame McCulloch saws.

Mark

 

[rwoods]

Not mine but pretty cool I'd say...

Mark

Turn me loose in there and my bar hunting days would be over. Do you think these will get inventoried and put up for sale? Ron

 

[rwoods]

Bars are all 10 Series McCulloch.

Not shown are a couple of NOS spline clutch drums in the box for the large frame McCulloch saws.

Mark

Some nice stuff there, Mark. I took a 32" and a 36" small mount .404 bar this week to the machine show for retrofit to the large mount. I thought .404 at those lenghts would be a little much. I'm looking for some 24" 3/8 .050 small mount bars. Any of those laying around or are those SpeedMacs .058? Ron

PS Did you get your package, yet?

 

[heimannm]

Look carefully at the stuff laid out on the bench Ron and you may see a familiar brake handle - just arrived yesterday and a great big thank you.

I will keep working on getting some more of this stuff made available but it will be tough going as the parts are 300 miles and a reluctant older fellow away.

Mark

 

[rwoods]

Look carefully at the stuff laid out on the bench Ron and you may see a familiar brake handle - just arrived yesterday and a great big thank you.

I will keep working on getting some more of this stuff made available but it will be tough going as the parts are 300 miles and a reluctant older fellow away.

Mark

Saw that but also saw the 600 cover without a handle. I thought for a minute you had bought out a storage locker - Storage War style. Ron

 

[heimannm]

I assure you that if it would ever come to that, I would be fighting that war...

Mark

 

[056kid]

No, its just rubber.

All I'm saying is hit it with some silicone and put in a ziplock. Keep it away from the sun and high temperatures. Not all that intricate.

I understand.

But how do you think they spend their lives on the saw? funneling gasoline, connected to a combustion engine. . . They are not that frail. .

as for you Promac610, I suspect you just need to get your pee pee wet, and that anger will subside.

 

[jeff76]

Jeff, here are the numbers for the Stihl and McCulloch intake boots (connector) as well as a side by side comparison.

Mark

Mark,
Thanks for the reply. I'll see what I can come up with. I'd prefer to find an original, but if all else fails, its nice to have the stihl as an option.

Jeff

 

[Steve NW WI]

I'm just trying to figure out how you can have that many opinions before you know anything. :msp_confused:

Now Wendy, think back, further, waaaay back to when you were young Shop Monkey's age. AHA...you knew it all then too, as did we all!

I'm gettin a little more crotchety as the years go on, but I'll likely just wind up bein that friendly old timer who tells the same stories over and over again instead.

 

[leeha]

Holy crap Mark, Thats a great load of parts and bars.
Did you purchase all those bars?
My eyes almost fell out of my head when is saw that
pic.



Lee

 

[heimannm]

As for the container Lee, see my note in post #10313

Mark

 

[Warped5]

Hey Aaron! Sighted last night when I was out walking with Molly! It's even the right color!

 

[Brian13]

That was quite the find Mark!!! Couldnt believe that stack of bars:msp_ohmy:, its ashamed to see them sitting like that. Good luck on getting the owner to make more of that stuff available.

 

[HeRoze]

I understand.

But how do you think they spend their lives on the saw? funneling gasoline, connected to a combustion engine. . . They are not that frail. .

===.

I think what drove this was a comment involving the long term storage of rubber parts. Being on a saw and being in storage present distinctly different situations.

Once on a saw (or car/motorcycle/vacuum coffee pot/whatever) and in place, deterioration isn't a concern until it gets to an extreme. Rubber hardens and becomes less maliable as it deteriorates due to numerous factors that break down the plasticizers, UV inhibitors, elastomers, and other additives (waxes, filler, color, etc.). If the rubber part is in place (on a saw) and it gets hard there are minimal issues because it simply hardens in the right shape that it is needed to do its job.

Storing rubber for later use is different. For me, buying a NOS rubber part has been a crap shoot. If the part has deteriorated to the point that it cracks or breaks during installation it fails to do its job. Most of the time this seems to be caused by storage at high temperatures. But if one is to go to the trouble of long-term storage, or simply slowing down the deterioration, keeping the oxygen, ozone, and UV away from rubber makes a lot of sense.

Sorry for the long answer.

 

[wendell]

Mark, if he needs a little convincing, let me know and I'd be happy to accompany you on your next trip. :hmm3grin2orange:

Very sad passing by the Mac Museum twice last week and not getting to stop. How are my potatoes coming? :msp_smile:

 

[Eccentric]

Never met a crotchety old 19 year old before. :msp_scared:

Too bad I won't be around to see what you are going to be like at 80. :hmm3grin2orange:

I'm just trying to figure out how you can have that many opinions before you know anything. :msp_confused:

Maybe so .... I'm thinking more of an 'old soul' ..... but I like a lot of what I hear from the kid. I count myself among his supporters.

BITD, I'd hear myself referred to as 'delightfully abrasive' and 'refreshingly off-center' .... so I can relate. I'll go to war with ya, Kyle.

I think we're rubbing off on the lad. I'd like to think "delightfully abrasive and refreshingly off-center" is what being Eccentric is all about. He may need to slow the pace a tad. I'm only 38 and am probably ahead of the 'crotchety' curve. He'll never make it to that age at this rate. The older I get, the more I realize that I don't know jack...

Oh.......and Nailhead Pontiacs and old Cadilac and Oldsmobile V8's are also acceptable powerplants in T-Buckets and 32 Fords BTW Kyle.

Bars are all 10 Series McCulloch.

Not shown are a couple of NOS spline clutch drums in the box for the large frame McCulloch saws.

Mark

Holy Crap Mark! Those stacks of bars are AMAZING. Please add me to the growing list of guys that'd like to partake of that stack of bars that you don't have yet................................and wouldn't want to part with once you got 'em anyways!

I have a 28" X-10 series Super Pro RN bar like those you have on your bench. It came with my SP-81. Needs dressing up and cleaning. Going to save that one for GTG's.

Hey Aaron! Sighted last night when I was out walking with Molly! It's even the right color!

That's a NICE Scout 80 Ted. 1961-1964. My 1967 Scout 800 is very similar, with only minor exterior changes. The folding windshield frame (with top-mounted wipers) and the 'twist type' door handles show that yeller Scout to be an 80. 800's have push-button door handles and non-folding windshields (with bottom mounted wipers). Most of the other differences are mechanical and/or not visible in that pic. That rig needs a big "Mac in the Box" emblem on the doors. Hey RandyMac...............................................does this inspire you to get on that redwood-snag deal????????

 

[Dennis Gauge]

Hey guys, it appears that someone is making reproduction sawdust screens for 10-series left-hand recoils! I bought one off that popular auction site expecting used. Appears to be freshly molded... Fits and looks good.

 

[056kid]

I think what drove this was a comment involving the long term storage of rubber parts. Being on a saw and being in storage present distinctly different situations.

Once on a saw (or car/motorcycle/vacuum coffee pot/whatever) and in place, deterioration isn't a concern until it gets to an extreme. Rubber hardens and becomes less maliable as it deteriorates due to numerous factors that break down the plasticizers, UV inhibitors, elastomers, and other additives (waxes, filler, color, etc.). If the rubber part is in place (on a saw) and it gets hard there are minimal issues because it simply hardens in the right shape that it is needed to do its job.

Storing rubber for later use is different. For me, buying a NOS rubber part has been a crap shoot. If the part has deteriorated to the point that it cracks or breaks during installation it fails to do its job. Most of the time this seems to be caused by storage at high temperatures. But if one is to go to the trouble of long-term storage, or simply slowing down the deterioration, keeping the oxygen, ozone, and UV away from rubber makes a lot of sense.

Sorry for the long answer.

I just pulled a pair of old rubber flippers of my Dads out of a box today, they are no good, dry rotted at the heels. .

 

[leeha]

Hey guys, it appears that someone is making reproduction sawdust screens for 10-series left-hand recoils! I bought one off that popular auction site expecting used. Appears to be freshly molded... Fits and looks good.

It could be an nos part.
I would imagine there are a ton of nos
parts out there for the 10 series saws.




Lee