MikeInMobile.AL
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Hello, Im new here.
I have managed to get my hands on my Grandpa's black and silver Sachs Dolmar 112 chainsaw that he bought new. He lived in south MS, where I am from, and passed away in '89 while I was living out of state in IA. I remember using that saw and working with my Grandpa to remove some trees in his yard, and liking how well it cut. Good memories of happy times back then.
I couldnt make it back in time for the funeral, but by the time I did make it back to MS I was told by my Grandma that his shop had been broken into and most of his tools and equipment were stolen. The police had no leads and no suspects, and there was no way to trace any of the stolen loot anyway as far as I knew, so that was that.
I ended up moving back to Mobile, AL shortly after that to be near my family just 20 miles across the state line in MS.
Fast forward 16 years later to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. My 2 uncles both live near the coast in MS and both had their houses flooded by the hurricane's storm surge.
I went over a couple days after the storm to help them gut their houses and clean up. One of my uncles asked me if I wanted an old chainsaw. He brought out this old crusty, muddy, dirty, nasty looking saw.
I asked him what was wrong with it, and he said it used to run good, but it went under the storm surge water when his shed got flooded, and was now locked up.
I told him it was probably scrap, and that he should junk it or use it for a boat anchor. It looked really bad and not worth saving.
Then he told me that he borrowed that saw from my Grandpa the week before he died. I wiped part of it off and saw Sachs Dolmar 112, and that it was black and silver. It was my Grandpa's saw!
I told him I would be proud to take it home.
When I got home, I cleaned it up, opened it up and filled the cylinder with oil, oiled down the rusted bits and let it sit in a plastic tub.
I tried to turn it over once in a while, and kept it oiled, but it wouldnt budge. It mostly just sat in that tub on the shelf. I never seemed to have the time to seriously mess with it, always too much going on, till last week when I decided it was time, and began to work on it.
I managed to free the piston with a lot of penetrating oil, cussing, scraped knuckles, and patiently working it back and forth for a couple of hours, and it turns over pretty easily now with no spark plug it it. The piston and ring looks good. Its got good compression, really hard to pull with a plug installed, but no spark. I cant locate a coil for it, so I asked for info here.
I found some great info from cuttinscott here,
http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=68149&page=2
Thanks Scott!
So Im planning to get the 030143041 coil and try to get it running.
I cant wait to hear Grandpa's saw roar to life again.
Mike
I have managed to get my hands on my Grandpa's black and silver Sachs Dolmar 112 chainsaw that he bought new. He lived in south MS, where I am from, and passed away in '89 while I was living out of state in IA. I remember using that saw and working with my Grandpa to remove some trees in his yard, and liking how well it cut. Good memories of happy times back then.
I couldnt make it back in time for the funeral, but by the time I did make it back to MS I was told by my Grandma that his shop had been broken into and most of his tools and equipment were stolen. The police had no leads and no suspects, and there was no way to trace any of the stolen loot anyway as far as I knew, so that was that.
I ended up moving back to Mobile, AL shortly after that to be near my family just 20 miles across the state line in MS.
Fast forward 16 years later to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. My 2 uncles both live near the coast in MS and both had their houses flooded by the hurricane's storm surge.
I went over a couple days after the storm to help them gut their houses and clean up. One of my uncles asked me if I wanted an old chainsaw. He brought out this old crusty, muddy, dirty, nasty looking saw.
I asked him what was wrong with it, and he said it used to run good, but it went under the storm surge water when his shed got flooded, and was now locked up.
I told him it was probably scrap, and that he should junk it or use it for a boat anchor. It looked really bad and not worth saving.
Then he told me that he borrowed that saw from my Grandpa the week before he died. I wiped part of it off and saw Sachs Dolmar 112, and that it was black and silver. It was my Grandpa's saw!
I told him I would be proud to take it home.
When I got home, I cleaned it up, opened it up and filled the cylinder with oil, oiled down the rusted bits and let it sit in a plastic tub.
I tried to turn it over once in a while, and kept it oiled, but it wouldnt budge. It mostly just sat in that tub on the shelf. I never seemed to have the time to seriously mess with it, always too much going on, till last week when I decided it was time, and began to work on it.
I managed to free the piston with a lot of penetrating oil, cussing, scraped knuckles, and patiently working it back and forth for a couple of hours, and it turns over pretty easily now with no spark plug it it. The piston and ring looks good. Its got good compression, really hard to pull with a plug installed, but no spark. I cant locate a coil for it, so I asked for info here.
I found some great info from cuttinscott here,
http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=68149&page=2
cuttinscott said:
Thanks Scott!
So Im planning to get the 030143041 coil and try to get it running.
I cant wait to hear Grandpa's saw roar to life again.
Mike
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