Toolslinger
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K-1200
I recently picked up a few machines for scrap price on fee bay... Amongst the pile was this Partner K-1200. It carries stickers from one of the EMS/Rescue squads up in the area I picked it up, so I doubt it spent its life cutting concrete...
I talked to the mechanic at the place I picked it up, and he told me it was being sold as they couldn't come up with the starter parts...
So I brought it home, and pulled the starter off. Yep, pretty much everything that attaches to the flywheel is MIA. Looking at the IPL nothing seems complicated, but the parts sure aren't out there new that I can find. So far I know the same parts are on this, the K-850, and the 7000, and 7000+ chainsaws. There might be others, but I haven't looked at every IPL yet. I know there are STOW branded saws that match as well as a Wacker, so I keep an eye out for them now too.
Since it wasn't going to fire up any time soon, I pulled the muffler to see what I could see, and things look pretty nice inside the cylinder... Everything under the air filter is squeaky clean too. The belt drive and pulleys are in excellent shape as well. I suspect this will be a good runner once I come up with the dogs.
I don't expect to be using it much. My thinking is it might be a good machine on root cutting rather than screwing up my chains. I have a big black walnut stump I want to get out next spring/summer and I can't get back to it with the backhoe where it is, so it will need to get cut free, and then dragged up out of the hole its in...
-Tim
I recently picked up a few machines for scrap price on fee bay... Amongst the pile was this Partner K-1200. It carries stickers from one of the EMS/Rescue squads up in the area I picked it up, so I doubt it spent its life cutting concrete...
I talked to the mechanic at the place I picked it up, and he told me it was being sold as they couldn't come up with the starter parts...
So I brought it home, and pulled the starter off. Yep, pretty much everything that attaches to the flywheel is MIA. Looking at the IPL nothing seems complicated, but the parts sure aren't out there new that I can find. So far I know the same parts are on this, the K-850, and the 7000, and 7000+ chainsaws. There might be others, but I haven't looked at every IPL yet. I know there are STOW branded saws that match as well as a Wacker, so I keep an eye out for them now too.
Since it wasn't going to fire up any time soon, I pulled the muffler to see what I could see, and things look pretty nice inside the cylinder... Everything under the air filter is squeaky clean too. The belt drive and pulleys are in excellent shape as well. I suspect this will be a good runner once I come up with the dogs.
I don't expect to be using it much. My thinking is it might be a good machine on root cutting rather than screwing up my chains. I have a big black walnut stump I want to get out next spring/summer and I can't get back to it with the backhoe where it is, so it will need to get cut free, and then dragged up out of the hole its in...
-Tim