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Dad ^^^^ wouldn't understand the CAD!!! :-)
It's closing in on 4 years since I posted this up in another thread;
I've been consumed with numerous things other than chainsaws and have not posted on this forum for quite some time. I recently had some chainsaw usage and also received a saw that has been in "transition" as a long term CAD addition. For my non chainsaw lingo fluent friend(s) that might receive a link to this thread the CAD = Chainsaw Acquisition Disorder !!!
The above post and pictures was posted up on August 4th, 2012 in this thread; http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/scored-a-cheap-timber-bear.204936/#post-3771832 . My friend that lived in Kingman at the time ended up retiring and moving up to Henderson, Nevada as the tax situation is better there than Arizona. He did tote my PM610 that he'd bought for me up to his new place but we never were able to cross paths to make the exchange. In fact he even teased me with a picture of the saw when he sent me a cool PDF picture collection of his new man cave/garage!!
Finally in January 2016 he ended up wrangling a motorcycle trade deal with a guy from Phoenix and we were able to facilitate getting the PM610 back down to me here in the Phoenix area. That transfer was facilitated by my now new friend John on January 31st, 2016!!
I was happy, after almost 3 1/2 years of waiting, to finally have this saw as part of my CAD. I have another PM610 that should be a runner but it has the well known PM610 starter recoil spindle issue. Anyways this 'new' to me saw has just collected dust sitting in storage. Last week I needed a b/c for another project and pulled this saw out, hoping that it's excellent condition b/c would be interchangeable with the other saw project, it wasn't. After removing the b/c I decided to tinker with it as I had some time and Av-gas pre-mix available. I first had to address the recoil starter rope issue as seen in the first picture of the post above. The rope was tangled around the pulley and not seated down in the rope groove. That was easily fixed and I pulled the plug and cleaned it off even though it was in pretty decent shape. I then dribbled some pre-mix down the carb and pulled on the starter rope...... amazingly enough it did pop off for a short burst so I knew that the ignition was functional I then keep doing the dribbling/priming deal and after about 3-4 short run bursts it actually started pulling fuel from the tank and running.........not that well but after a short while the engine cleared up and ran strong and idled nicely!! I was really happy as I'd not touched the carb adjustments or anything........just checked that the fuel line felt pliable and that there was a felt filter in the gas tank.
I did a AS search on the PM610 and read thru the McCulloch PM610 threads/posts that came up. I already knew that it's not a real desirable saw due to it's power to weight ratio being a bit on the heavy side but I'm still looking forward to sinking this original bar setup into some wood as it does sound strong/good compression.
When I was looking thru my e-mail for the picture of the saw at my friend's garage I also located the name and phone number of the guy that was selling the saw. I will be giving him a call and letting him know I was finally able to get the saw operational. IIRC he had told me that it was his recently deceased dad's saw and that his dad hadn't used it much ........I guess so because it still has the original McCulloch bar on it!!
Just a little renewed interest in the CAD aspect of my world!!
Same sorta deal...........
Congrats on your $20 saw score!!
I had basically the same thing happen to me last week. My friend that lives in a Northwestern Arizona town picked a $25 PM610 up for me and will be delivering it sometime in the future. I know the starter recoil mechanism is screwed up/broken but the saw looks to be in well taken care of shape.........it was the seller's dad's casual usage saw that he inherited and didn't have any use for it. My friend took some documentation pictures to illustrate the condition;
Where my work on the saw will start;
Sorta like checking out the condition of a dirt bike by looking at the skidplate and frame bottom tubes...........check out the bottom of the saw for usage evidence.....this one looks pretty darn clean!!
I've been consumed with numerous things other than chainsaws and have not posted on this forum for quite some time. I recently had some chainsaw usage and also received a saw that has been in "transition" as a long term CAD addition. For my non chainsaw lingo fluent friend(s) that might receive a link to this thread the CAD = Chainsaw Acquisition Disorder !!!
The above post and pictures was posted up on August 4th, 2012 in this thread; http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/scored-a-cheap-timber-bear.204936/#post-3771832 . My friend that lived in Kingman at the time ended up retiring and moving up to Henderson, Nevada as the tax situation is better there than Arizona. He did tote my PM610 that he'd bought for me up to his new place but we never were able to cross paths to make the exchange. In fact he even teased me with a picture of the saw when he sent me a cool PDF picture collection of his new man cave/garage!!
Finally in January 2016 he ended up wrangling a motorcycle trade deal with a guy from Phoenix and we were able to facilitate getting the PM610 back down to me here in the Phoenix area. That transfer was facilitated by my now new friend John on January 31st, 2016!!
I was happy, after almost 3 1/2 years of waiting, to finally have this saw as part of my CAD. I have another PM610 that should be a runner but it has the well known PM610 starter recoil spindle issue. Anyways this 'new' to me saw has just collected dust sitting in storage. Last week I needed a b/c for another project and pulled this saw out, hoping that it's excellent condition b/c would be interchangeable with the other saw project, it wasn't. After removing the b/c I decided to tinker with it as I had some time and Av-gas pre-mix available. I first had to address the recoil starter rope issue as seen in the first picture of the post above. The rope was tangled around the pulley and not seated down in the rope groove. That was easily fixed and I pulled the plug and cleaned it off even though it was in pretty decent shape. I then dribbled some pre-mix down the carb and pulled on the starter rope...... amazingly enough it did pop off for a short burst so I knew that the ignition was functional I then keep doing the dribbling/priming deal and after about 3-4 short run bursts it actually started pulling fuel from the tank and running.........not that well but after a short while the engine cleared up and ran strong and idled nicely!! I was really happy as I'd not touched the carb adjustments or anything........just checked that the fuel line felt pliable and that there was a felt filter in the gas tank.
I did a AS search on the PM610 and read thru the McCulloch PM610 threads/posts that came up. I already knew that it's not a real desirable saw due to it's power to weight ratio being a bit on the heavy side but I'm still looking forward to sinking this original bar setup into some wood as it does sound strong/good compression.
When I was looking thru my e-mail for the picture of the saw at my friend's garage I also located the name and phone number of the guy that was selling the saw. I will be giving him a call and letting him know I was finally able to get the saw operational. IIRC he had told me that it was his recently deceased dad's saw and that his dad hadn't used it much ........I guess so because it still has the original McCulloch bar on it!!
Just a little renewed interest in the CAD aspect of my world!!
