McCulloch Chain Saws

Overtrained · Dec 14, 2012

Just won this on the bay for 25 bones, not bad but the shipping is a lil steep as expected. The seller said it works so we shall see. Figured its worth it for the bar and chain, rest of the saw is butt ugly

. Was anyone on here bidding against me for it?

heimannm · Dec 14, 2012

OT - Where are you located?

I have 3 or 4 300 Series McCulloch saws I'd be happy to send you if you pay the shipping. USPS Parcel Post would be around $20/saw I guess. If you are along one of my intended paths in the near future, I'd even deliver them!

Mark

Overtrained · Dec 14, 2012

Oh and what power mac model is that?

Overtrained · Dec 14, 2012

heimannm said:
OT - Where are you located?

I have 3 or 4 300 Series McCulloch saws I'd be happy to send you if you pay the shipping. USPS Parcel Post would be around $20/saw I guess. If you are along one of my intended paths in the near future, I'd even deliver them!

Mark

Im in long island NY, if your passing by me your headed straight for the atlantic

I'm not looking for anymore projects right now. Trying to fix what I have and get everything running. Unless the saws you have are ready to go

I appreciate the offer however. :cheers:

Warped5 · Dec 14, 2012

Overtrained said:
Im in long island NY, if your passing by me your headed straight for the atlantic I'm not looking for anymore projects right now. Trying to fix what I have and get everything running. Unless the saws you have are ready to go I appreciate the offer however.

So is that Super 250 in the 'to do' list yet? :monkey:

joeymt33 · Dec 14, 2012

Warped5 said:
So is that Super 250 in the 'to do' list yet? :monkey:

Yeah, what's up? You can't hide under those MM forever.

Overtrained · Dec 14, 2012

Warped5 said:
So is that Super 250 in the 'to do' list yet? :monkey:

Actually not any more :dizzy:

joeymt33 said:
Yeah, what's up? You can't hide under those MM forever.

I ended up passing it along to Keith(psuiewalsh)for the same great deal I got it for. It was sitting in a box(in pieces) and I decided to let it go, got to involved with the smaller saws as dumb as that may sound

psuiewalsh · Dec 14, 2012

Overtrained said:
Actually not any more

I ended up passing it along to Keith(psuiewalsh)for the same great deal I got it for. It was sitting in a box(in pieces) and I decided to let it go, got to involved with the smaller saws as dumb as that may sound

AND I used parts of it to reassemble a super 250 sent to a member in VA and am waiting on replacement parts from a certain eccentric Californian who is waiting on parts from another person and it is a crazy time for all. So whoever has the flywheel and other parts:help:

Overtrained · Dec 14, 2012

psuiewalsh said:
AND I used parts of it to reassemble a super 250 sent to a member in VA and am waiting on replacement parts from a certain eccentric Californian who is waiting on parts from another person and it is a crazy time for all. So whoever has the flywheel and other parts:help:

I knew that S250 was a whore:hmm3grin2orange:

ozflea · Dec 14, 2012

The Ultimate Sleeper Engine

Just been up the shed susing out a standard inner side housing to see if it would fit up to a SP125c crankcase and yes it will thereby allowing some-one the chance to build a 123cc monster geardrive using a saw engine and not a kart engine .... the earlier standard inner flywheel housing only needs a little filing to clear the boss for the rear cushion mount of the SP125 and Bob's ya uncle ... i use the phelon ignition units out of the ryobi whipper snippers so the timing being run from points is no longer used.

The Ultimate sleeper engine fellas 123cc in the standard type like the old 250 or 1-53

McBob.

P.S Always wondered why Mac didn't put out a model like this the earlier side cover allows better fit to the early oil tank of the 250 style as the super style off the 125 doesnt fit you have to grind material out of its 125 origional housing

As soon as my batteries recharge for the camera i'll post a few pics

YOU MAY HAVE TO MAKE A NOTCH TO CLEAR THE CUSHION MOUNT BOSS

The rest of the 250 style bits and pieces should bolt vIrtuly straight on for the carby i'd use the one off the Mac 125c and adapt it using the 797 carb to manifold adaptor the carb a SDC 24

Nickolas · Dec 14, 2012

250 variants

I got to thinking about the 250 series saws and all the differences in them from early to late to the Super 250. I have an original owners manual from 1963 and it shows a nice 250 with black starter, air filter lid, clutch cover among a few other parts and pieces. I really love the colors black and yellow together so I decided I wanted to find an early model 250. Looking around I don't see that many of them. Most all are just the later all yellow saws. I did find one that looked good and got my hands on it at a good price. It is interesting how this saw changed from the first model to the later models. So I have one now from 1962-63 and it is different in many ways... What I thought was most interesting are the THIN piston rings. My 200 and later 250 are thick rings. ( don't know about super 250 haven't looked at it yet )

1- black clutch cover
2- black starter
3- black air filter lid
4- McCulloch flat back carb with primer and fuel collector mounted on carb
5- Fuel cap is a different design with a welch plug sealing the top
6- Early style fuel tank with a boss for the manual oiler and fill cap on the side
7- round muffler versus the square stack on the later models
8- THIN piston rings, later models have thick rings

There may be some other small differences I didn't note but those stuck out the most. Seems kinda odd to seal a fuel cap with a welch plug but I guess it worked. Overall it is a nice clean saw I like it. I wonder why they changed to all yellow and the longer lids later? I really like the black and yellow scheme it's a good look. Maybe the longer lid helped protect the oil reservoir from limbs and such striking it. And I am a big fan of the primer flat backs they work very well. Nothing wrong with a tillotson as I have those on other saws but I prefer the flat back myself. I haven't run it yet but it has good compression and spark so it should be good to go with the usual maintenance. Now I have to get me a Yellow top Super and I'll have 4 different 250 models. I like these saws as they are my main saw to cut with. The regular 250 cuts real good and if I have something big or some harder wood I'll use the Super as it has so much more power it is Super indeed... Looks to have a low serial number 5728... I wonder if they started at 1 or another number?

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The rest of the pics are here -----> McCulloch Photos by Nickolas64 | Photobucket

RandyMac · Dec 14, 2012

Get a close up shot of the stamped numbers please

Nickolas · Dec 14, 2012

RandyMac said:
Get a close up shot of the stamped numbers please

Did you click the link under the pics where it says the rest of the pics are here... Just click it and it will take you to Photobucket where I have a closeup of the numbers.

heimannm · Dec 14, 2012

The early model 250's had the long yellow molded looking air filter cover and yellow clutch cover, and late model 250's had the short black air filter cover and black clutch cover. All were 2.125" bore and had thick rings, PN 55123. There were no thin ring variants of the 200/250 saws.

There were thin ring versions of some 1-7X and 1-8X models, it could be someone switched pistons between the 250 and 1-71/72/75/1-81/82/85 as all were 2.125 bore.

Mark

RandyMac · Dec 14, 2012

Frankensaw.

Nickolas · Dec 15, 2012

heimannm said:
The early model 250's had the long yellow molded looking air filter cover and yellow clutch cover, and late model 250's had the short black air filter cover and black clutch cover. All were 2.125" bore and had thick rings, PN 55123. There were no thin ring variants of the 200/250 saws.

There were thin ring versions of some 1-7X and 1-8X models, it could be someone switched pistons between the 250 and 1-71/72/75/1-81/82/85 as all were 2.125 bore.

Mark

I'm going to have to disagree with you on that. I know that this saw is all original without a doubt. I have an original owners manual dated 1963 and it shows this saw throughout the book exactly like the one pictured on several pages. This saw replaced the 1-46 and that saw also had the short filter cover and round muffler like a lot of other early saws with the screw on top and not a knob to turn. This is an early 1962-63 saw and they changed it in 1964. I believe this is where the long cover and tillotson carburetor came in to play along with the manual choke and to the yellow parts. The rings also fit a 62-63 model only 250 and change to the common 55123 rings in 64. As for the front cover with the boss for a filler plug and oil pump plunger you can see a 1-46 from 1962 also has this style cover along with a few other models. Left over parts for the newer 250 saw. This saw also has the earlier style oil pump spring ball and retainer to oil the bar on the side which was used on early model 200 saws and 62-63 250 saws only. If you do some research I think you will change your mind. Also if you had this saw in your hands looking it over you can tell it more than likely hasn't been apart it is way too clean and the gaskets still have yellow paint on them here and there. On the ring part numbers 55123 rings are listed for an early and late 200 and for 1964 and up 250 but for a 62-63 250 the part number is 48695.

Nick

Correction --> Part number for rings are 48691 --- 48695 is the piston #. It was late last night when I was posting and me eyes were tarred...

RandyMac · Dec 15, 2012

I'll say it again, Frankensaw. The position of the switch on the flywheel housing is from a later model. I'm not sure about the black starter, all the 250s I have seen were yellow.