McCulloch Chain Saws

[Eccentric]

Now the ? is should I get it? I don't have one and it has a very nice 24 inch McCulloch sprocket tip bar on it. I think price was in the $70 range.

That's not a bad price if she ain't scored. These saws are a bit more dificult to check the P/C on however...........as the exhuast port is on the bottom of the jug. Requires you to pull the lower handle brace and the tin cylinder shield as well as the muffler. It's actually quicker to pull the carb and look down through the intake port. There's a couple problems here however.

1)They most likely won't dig you pulling the carb (it's a bit easier to get permission to pull a muffler cover).


2)Looking through the intake won't let you see the exhaust side of the piston. You can see the exhaust side of the jug however (use a good flashlight).

If the compression "feels" good enough for you (or you can check with a known gauge), then I'd suggest you go for it. That's not a huge risk, and you can make much of your money back out of it if you have to part it out because of a smoked P/C (and probably some of it from me as I'm already coveting the B/C for my 'new' 7-10A). That saw would be happier with a 20" bar IMHO. It'll run it just fine if you don't lean on it though...

 

[cpr]

I'd probably do it for that price, but then I'm biased. My dad's PM-55 is what first infected me with yellow fever when I was a teenager.

 

[Mo. Jim]

what displacement is the 510? isn't it a little smaller than the SP40?

My book lists both at 2.3 cubes and 37.7 cc

 

[joeymt33]

My book lists both at 2.3 cubes and 37.7 cc

thank you

 

[Mo. Jim]

thank you

Joey I'v seen 510's hard to start fresh out of the box. They were sucking air between the carb and the choke lever,Mac came out with a gasket that fit between the carb and the back of the choke to seal it.

 

[joeymt33]

Joey I'v seen 510's hard to start fresh out of the box. They were sucking air between the carb and the choke lever,Mac came out with a gasket that fit between the carb and the back of the choke to seal it.

yep, you're right. ive got a cork gasket in that position to seal it. thanks for the info.

 

[promac850]

Well, well, well... Aaron nailed the problem of the 850 on the head...

The carby on the 850 had some sawdust and gunk in it. Funny thing is none of it (as far as I could see, which ain't all that well...) was on the needle seat or needle... found a fair bit in the screen and elsewhere on the fuel pump side of the carb. I think this is from the incident that I had to deal with, the filter falling off of the line to be exact.

She barks once again. I love walking into the house and hearing pops say "I heard it..." :hmm3grin2orange: Can't get that from anything but a real saw.

Hats off to Eccentric for setting me in the right direction... I was thinking I'd need to buy a kit for it to get it fixed.

So I will be cutting more firewood with it... mainly a bunch of maple from that tree I got from my neighbor.

Which reminds me, some guy that commented on my youtube video said he wanted to see a video of the 850 making noodles... Might have to do that today as well... I like noodles.

 

[rwoods]

Kyle, I'm glad you got her going again. Ron

 

[homelitejim]

link up that video again I must have missed it.

 

[promac850]

link up that video again I must have missed it.

Noodling video? Didn't make it yet. Tomorrow will be the day since the saw has to come out for munching down some of those 'too long for the stove' pieces of maple and for cutting up some logs...

My pops ended up napping away half the afternoon after doing the Saturday morning 'pay the bills' routine... :deadhorse: So no cutting or splitting of firewood got done. I got busy doing other stuff, like farting around on this here computer and on other random stuff in the barn.


Soooo... get any more Mac saws recently homelitejim?

 

[RandyMac]

I have a PM55 somewhere, didn't do much more than take out of the box.
I think it is in pretty fair shape.

 

[homelitejim]

The four Mac's I have now are the SP81, 10-10A, and a gear drive right hand start variant of the 10-10 probably a 2-10G, and a beat up PM610. If someone comes by and purchases a Stihl 025 I have for sale I will be adding a Partner P100 which is the same as a McCulloch 1000 and a PM55. I was talking about the original video of you cutting with your 850, I could not find it on youtube.

 

[AustinGarner]

2 mcculloch 10-10
1 mcculloch 250
1 mcculloch 1-52
1 mcculloch 1-70

I didn't care for mccullochs at first but got the 250 on a trade and must say I love theses saws buy most I come across I want a so 125 bit don't have that kind of money right now

 

[AustinGarner]

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[RandyMac]

Time to find a gear-drive Austin.

 

[AustinGarner]

Time to find a gear-drive Austin.

I would love to find a gear drive like that, but ebay is a joke most times, and I live on the east coast so alot of saws are hard to some by. took me 4ever to find a two man saw lol

 

[Warped5]

I would love to find a gear drive like that, but ebay is a joke most times, and I live on the east coast so alot of saws are hard to some by. took me 4ever to find a two man saw lol

.... can't find 'em because Lee bought 'em all ..... :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[AustinGarner]

everyone seems to get it all before me :msp_unsure: was a stihl 041 on craigs list for $40 and I missed by 1 phone call:angry2:

 

[Mr. Bow Saw]

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Nice saws.:msp_thumbup:

 

[heimannm]

Back to the PM800

I talked a bit about this saw before. I was informed of it by fellow AS member manyhobbies and bought it over the phone the same day. Dan picked it up for me (in June) and I finally got around to passing by his place in November.

Once I got it home, I noticed it didn't seem to oil properly, and in the process of diagnosing/repairing I managed to dump oil all over it. I decided I might as well go ahead and give it a good cleaning so I stripped it down completely and noticed the exhaust and intake ports both looked a bit rough. In for a penny, in for a pound so I took it down all the way and cleaned and polished the ports a bit.

I was still struggling with the oiler this week and noticed that the pick up line had a very thick "flange" where it sets under the manual pump that seemed to be sealing off the check valve (disc). I found another oil line with the thin flange and low and behold the oiler now works like it should.

Anyone out there know the story on the oil lines (thick vs. thin flange) and the gaskets as one has a smaller hole that seems to seat the flange quite nicely, the original has a much larger hole that looks as though it would let the flange float a bit.

I will try to get some additional photo's posted up when time permits. I will say that starting this saw with no compression release beyond the Q port requires effort combined with attention.

Mark