It looks like it's lead a pretty easy life so I suspect a quick carb cleaning and freeing up the clutch which is seized on for some reason will leave me with a dandy little saw to tuck into a dry barrel for campfire wood on multi-day canoe trips.
Same here. That seems to be the norm. I'm guessing these things ran like such a$$ when they were new that they got very little use. And most of the people that bought them were simple homeowners that just wanted the smallest saw they could find to cut up twigs and roots. Anyone who wanted a real top handle bought a real saw