Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[JustJeff]

Hot here. Been a hot summer. I have trees waiting on me but I seem to have lost my “want to” At breakfast this morning I made an offhand comment about how I needed to get started on moving wood to the racks under the deck for winter. One son said “let’s go”. I do not let opportunities like that pass by so we hustled and loaded 2 racks and fixed a third that had half collapsed. It’s a good start.

 

[svk]

I keep getting more saws running, 046/460, 044, and 440 BBs (with the help of Asian kits + / or parts). Trouble is, I've run out of B+Cs to put on them.

I've also been experimenting with some minor porting of cylinders. Seems there are big gains to be found in a lot of jugs just by lowering the intake, which does not require any special tools (I can do it with a half round file).

Mostly just a lot of fun + learning, but I'm bringing some old saws (044 + 046) back to life, and producing some new 440 BBs. A local tree guy "tested" one of my big bores on one of his jobs and bought the saw the same day, so I guess I'm doing something right! Said it was both lighter and stronger than his 460, which he really liked with a muff mod and timing advance.

You are doing it right Mike. Lots of guys “over there” are stuck in the minutia of getting that last 1/10th of a horse (and the drama that goes with it). They have forgotten the fun of a good torquey woods saw.

 

[James Miller]

They can use all that rain on the west coast.

If I could control the weather they could have it all for the next week or two. A week of dry weather would be nice around here.

 

[James Miller]

I cleaned up a wood pile for a local home building company the other year with help from @farmer steve and another local friend. Well they bought another property about 5 minutes from my place . Going to make a phone call Monday morning about cleaning up at the new place. @bear1998 looking for a reason to give the ported 395 some exercise?

 

[LondonNeil]

think the sunshine went to my head...

I may need a bit of help.

So with the fiancee and girls away i got to the 038avs at last. I hada fuel leak when squeezing the trigger to start the saw, and a wondering idle making me think i needed carb work, and maybe had a split intake gasket...so I'd spent about 8 quid with farmertec on a bing carb and and intke boot

first off the tilaston carb (left) is slightly differient to the replacement bing (right) as you can see the bing has a port extra that i'm pointing to, is that just a vent or???



then I realised I needed to get the case off the handle to get the intake boot off, fine...I'll give it a good clean as i go, take photos and then I've lots of pictures to use when i sell on ebay. I found a few more problems....all stuff i sort of expected....knackered hoses/rubbers

First this little one here, a tank vent? its split to buggery. it looks to just poke through the hole by the av mount and end, is that right? just vents to there...or has it perished and snapped and it should go somewhere? what do I buy btw, tank vent hose?


heres where it ends, oh and as you can see, the next problem...a knackered av mount. the other 3 are ok, that one, totally toast. was a real pain to get the middle screw out the handle...molegrips did it.



AV mounts off, earth lead unplugged and threaded out the handle and... eeeewwwwww, what a lot of crud

 

[LondonNeil]

more stripping and cleaning...all ok here


Then i got really carreid away and engaged the torx without engaging my brain and did this.....



well its clean.... and so is the coil...



ok...so...err.. what is the gap I need to set? 20 thou? and where exaclt do i stick the feeler gauages, middle, or the two ends of the horseshoe? oops. really need to try and think before i spanner.

still, got it clean



Ok, so I need to know the coil gap, I also need a rear upper av mount, the others are ok but...do I just swap the lot? remember the saw is going to be sold but i don't mind spending a few quid on farmertec parts before i sell it. I also need that hose. While its all stripped down, do I also replace the fuel hose? is that easy or a right fiddle? oh and is the bing carb incorrect? what is the extra port?

Oh and....the intake boot is fine..hmm..where is my air leak?

 

[LondonNeil]

no one say case. no one say bearing seals. don't just don't say it. that is a step too far for a saw going on ebay.....i hope.

Oh and fly wheel, i undid the bolt and gave it a tug....stuck fast...so i did the bolt up again.

 

[James Miller]

I set the coil gap at .012 with a feeler gauge. An old man I trust with 40+ years in saws says they make a little more power set tight. Whether or not it's true if set them there since.

 

[LondonNeil]

cheers, where do i stick the feelers? centre of the coil, or the two ends of the horseshoe?

 

[James Miller]

I slide the guage between the magnet and coil letting the coil pinch it tight between the two. If no one has a better explanation I'll pull the flywheel cover off one of the saws when I get home and post pics of how I do it.

 

[Philbert]

Philbert

 

[LondonNeil]

No that makes sense, i just wsn't sure to set the gap at the bit in the middle of the coil or the 2 ends of the laminated horseshoe (where the bolt is, and the far end) just because the 2 ends look to stick out closer....which sort of confuses.

 

[LondonNeil]

hey philbert, thats cool.
i shoulda got a few pics of my chain for you to critique. tomorrow

 

[James Miller]

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Philbert

The more I look at it the more people I find

 

[LondonNeil]

ahh so the carb vent goes to the filter....if you have the type that has a hole....i may need a new filter, i can't remember if mine has the hole and i blocked it, or i got one with no hole.

 

[LondonNeil]

do you see the dog and the cat?

 

[bear1998]

View attachment 666809 View attachment 666810 View attachment 666811 I cleaned up a wood pile for a local home building company the other year with help from @farmer steve and another local friend. Well they bought another property about 5 minutes from my place . Going to make a phone call Monday morning about cleaning up at the new place. @bear1998 looking for a reason to give the ported 395 some exercise?

Sure.....

 

[KiwiBro]

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Philbert

Instant flashback to a mate's garage. He was the sort of person who could crack a sledgehammer with a nut. That picture looks like he drove a VW into the garage to change a tyre...6 months earlier.

 

[Philbert]

Illustration from the classic VW repair book:
"How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot", illustrated by Peter Aschwanden, and worth the cost, just for the pictures.


A couple of other books worth the price for the illustrations:

"To Fell a Tree" , by Jeff Jepson, illustrated by Byran Kotwica

"Kayak: The Animated Manual of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique", by William Nealy

Philbert

 

[LondonNeil]

i wondered, now i know, Philbert, your humour is very dry...but accurate.