rms61moparman
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Sometimes I wonder how many "locked up" saws were due to loose screws and dirt dobber's nests!!!
I guess the folks up where you are would call them "mud daubers".LOL
Mike
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Sometimes I wonder how many "locked up" saws were due to loose screws and dirt dobber's nests!!!
I guess the folks up where you are would call them "mud daubers".LOL
Mike
Eccentric
Mister Wizard
Yep.
People flapping their gums on AS (and I'm included in that group) have already driven up the price of 82cc McCullochs, 98cc P-P/P-PP saws, Poulan 245's, and 85cc Poulans on feebay and CL. We don't need guys like you and Brad (with his MS200T beating S25-CVA video) putting visions of $$$ into the heads of would-be XXV-series sellers........................................'chu got it Joe???!!!!
We call 'em mud daubers here. The best/worst one I saw was a McCulloch 77 with two large nests under the flywheel cover and a third in the muffler! I also pulled apart a Super E-Z parts saw sent to me by a kind member here. Was pulling it apart to get the coil out, and noticed the reason why it was "locked up". There was a handful of roofing nails, washers, and other shop crap stuck to the flywheel magnet and jammed up against the coil laminations!
There's a Craftsman 1.9/Poulan XX in the second pic for Poulan content!
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Ain't that the truth Aaron. I been trying for about the last month to get a S25 cheap parts saw, just to get the coil off of.. LOL Seems even the crappy non-running "parts saws" are popular these days. I robbed the coil off of one of my 25's to get that 2.3 Craftsman saw running for a friend. I thought, no problem, I'll just get a parts saw off the Bay, to replace it...LOL I think every body else must have the same plans now a days.:eek2:
Gregg,
Gregg,
Yep.
People flapping their gums on AS (and I'm included in that group) have already driven up the price of 82cc McCullochs, 98cc P-P/P-PP saws, Poulan 245's, and 85cc Poulans on feebay and CL. We don't need guys like you and Brad (with his MS200T beating S25-CVA video) putting visions of $$$ into the heads of would-be XXV-series sellers........................................'chu got it Joe???!!!!
We call 'em mud daubers here. The best/worst one I saw was a McCulloch 77 with two large nests under the flywheel cover and a third in the muffler! I also pulled apart a Super E-Z parts saw sent to me by a kind member here. Was pulling it apart to get the coil out, and noticed the reason why it was "locked up". There was a handful of roofing nails, washers, and other shop crap stuck to the flywheel magnet and jammed up against the coil laminations!
There's a Craftsman 1.9/Poulan XX in the second pic for Poulan content!
I apologize everyone.
Eccentric
Mister Wizard
Now don't let it happen again Joe. Remeber, they're all POS "pull-on" junk...:jester:
mactodd
ArboristSite Operative
You can put me on that short list! BTW, anybody got a D14 block laying around?
Except, When & IF I ever decide I need to sell one.:biggrin: Then just the opposite holds true.
Gregg,
Except, When & IF I ever decide I need to sell one.:biggrin: Then just the opposite holds true.
Gregg,
Haha that's for sure. I thought about putting my grey and black 3.4 on eBay, but it was so clean and low hour, I couldn't do it. I have sold a bunch of micros tho. Those just seem to breed in the shed, I swear I open the door an there's another on the shelf!
You have done better than me. I just can't bring myself to sell off a family member.:msp_ohmy: Even though more than half the saws I own, don't get used much, if at all.:monkey:
Life was much simpler in the old days. When I went to cut wood, there was just one saw to choose from, my lonely & reliable old 3400. Now, I seem to think there is a saw made for every tree! LOL
Gregg,
cajunhillbilly
ArboristSite Operative
I'm far from any expert but I have a mig\wire welder that is very handy for repairing things around the shop. If its something like working on our bridge (private road) I use a neighbors stick welder. As far as welding on thin metal as on a muffler my mig on its lowest setting will burn right through it. Try "brazing" it will be better, it is for me. I'm going to try some of this Alumiweld brazing on a Poulan clutch cover soon. Has anyone tried this stuff? Will it hold up?
The photo is a repair with brazing to my 041 I just did (sorry Poulan guys). Not perty but I think will work. I'm going to try some muff mods soon, probably the 3400 first.
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I have a 3.0 Craftsman that's in great shape but I wouldn't want to sell it on ebay for $30! That seems to be about average price for Craftsman/Poulan saws there. I wish the buyers would learn that there's other good saws beside Stihl.
8433jeff
Aftermarket connoisseur
You can lead a horse to water, but it will run back to the kool-aid. As long as Stihl is in the cut-off saw and commercial side of it, people will buy them to use at home, no matter how crappy they get. Thats the way it is.
Yeah, I kinda know how the public's mind works, they get fixated on one thing and it takes them a long time to change their minds. Right now Stihl is more or less a status symbol with the firewood cutters and Stihl could sell their saws to them if they made them out of cardboard...
This one followed me home yesterday. I will try to clean it up and see if I can make it go. The guy I got it from said simply he couldn't make it run.
Seems I don't know how to post photo's again, why do they keep changing things?
Mark
Seems I don't know how to post photo's again, why do they keep changing things?
Mark
look at IPL for length, size, and pitch then go to your local bolt and screw provider.
There's a Craftsman 1.9/Poulan XX in the second pic for Poulan content!
hey aaron is that the "cut finger girl"? how's that going?
Very Nice Mark, What looks to be an early 3400. Has the smaller rear counter-vibe screw setup. Things look to be original too. Might want to ck to see if it has an adj. oiler. I have never seen one with it, but I guess a few have.
They keep changing things, like posting picture procedures, to confuse us old timers I think.:msp_mad: And it usually works too.
zogger
Tree Freak
It is not hard to embed pics here, just a scosh of some typing, it is very easy.
Once you have your pictures uploaded, type this (I can't do it directly, it won't show up to see) but you can follow along easily...this is less work and less complicated then sticking a filter on the end of a fuel line
Type the left hand square bracket, then in caps, IMG, then right hand square bracket. Now after that paste in the URL of where your attachment is in your user page. Every attachment has an address, just scroll over it and select copy from right click on the mouse, then paste where you want it to go. Now type left hand square bracket, forward slash, then IMG again, then the right hand square bracket.
And that's it, Takes shorter to do it then explain it.
Here, I'll do one of yours
If you learn to do it by typing, you won't have to deal with site changes and code changes and using the javascript do dads, which are..I ain't gonna say it, just I think they are silly. They act as an "editor", but I never liked editors, I just like clean, simple code.
This is a tool using technology forum, so this stuff is no different to learn then reading a tech manual on whatever chunk of stuff you are working on.
There's absolutely nothing hard about simple basic internet or computer stuff, working on saws and machinery is much more brain intensive and complicated.
Here's the rest of them. Can't believe you brought that thing home, Mark. :msp_confused: Must be a rebuild project. :hmm3grin2orange:
Eccentric
Mister Wizard
Hiya Jerry.
The "cut finger girl" is her older sister. This one is 3, and her sister is 10. She's healing up fast. The stitches were removed on Thursday. Everythings all closed up. I wish I healed as fast. It'd taken me a month to heal as much as she has in a week and a half.....
