My father has much the same tool junkie status as I do, unfortunately(or fortunately as I look at it). In the late 60's & early 70's he purchased a Super XL AO and an XL-12 chainsaw. Where he worked in the mountains, they were two weeks pay, when new.
He still has both.
Starting in the 1990's, he would buy running and non-running larger Homelites - there was basically 3 criteria for purchase: (1) they were cheap (2)large CC's (3) old enough to be the Carolina Blue Homelite paint.
The result is that in addition to the two saws he bought new he has 7 blue XL's of varying model, and 1 red XL that was originally blue- I have reason to believe it was a factory changeover saw.
I had found a couple of the old, brown Atom Electronic Ignition modules at a flea market, and I bought them. I converted his two old saws to electronic ignition, and then I picked out a nice looking Super XL AO and redid the carb-it had been a Tillotson saw that someone attempted a Zama swap on. I rebuilt the Tillotson, had a hell of a time with the Reed valves, and finally became confident the carb was okay.
Well, the points and condensor were shot, and no shop I called had them or wanted to order them, so I replaced them with the last Atom kit.
I got the saw running, and was beautiful. I found a ring pack for it that would work, and re-ringed it and the saw is basically better than anything new. For extra security, I should replace the pulse line, but haven't yet.
However, here are my questions:
(1)Now that Atom no longer produces electronic ignition modules, which is the best substitute for the Atom ? If there is no difference, where can I purchase a module the cheapest ?
(2)I've used Chrysler Ice Blue(non-metallic) to repaint one of the saws and it is close, but it isn't the Original Homelite Blue. Does anyone have a Ditzler or PPG code for the Homelite blue paint ?
Thank you.
He still has both.
Starting in the 1990's, he would buy running and non-running larger Homelites - there was basically 3 criteria for purchase: (1) they were cheap (2)large CC's (3) old enough to be the Carolina Blue Homelite paint.
The result is that in addition to the two saws he bought new he has 7 blue XL's of varying model, and 1 red XL that was originally blue- I have reason to believe it was a factory changeover saw.
I had found a couple of the old, brown Atom Electronic Ignition modules at a flea market, and I bought them. I converted his two old saws to electronic ignition, and then I picked out a nice looking Super XL AO and redid the carb-it had been a Tillotson saw that someone attempted a Zama swap on. I rebuilt the Tillotson, had a hell of a time with the Reed valves, and finally became confident the carb was okay.
Well, the points and condensor were shot, and no shop I called had them or wanted to order them, so I replaced them with the last Atom kit.
I got the saw running, and was beautiful. I found a ring pack for it that would work, and re-ringed it and the saw is basically better than anything new. For extra security, I should replace the pulse line, but haven't yet.
However, here are my questions:
(1)Now that Atom no longer produces electronic ignition modules, which is the best substitute for the Atom ? If there is no difference, where can I purchase a module the cheapest ?
(2)I've used Chrysler Ice Blue(non-metallic) to repaint one of the saws and it is close, but it isn't the Original Homelite Blue. Does anyone have a Ditzler or PPG code for the Homelite blue paint ?
Thank you.
