Things not to do to a saw

[ehp]

Well it rain hard here today , so i went and seen Tony my Husky dealer. He had a 288 that would not run, so we took it apart and it had one big mark in the piston and on the top of the ext
port. I knew something stupid was up with the marks because they were so big. I knew they were not from the crank bearings and nothing was in the motor. But you would not put a piston back in a saw like that until you knew what happen.Well the guy put a screwdriver in the sparkplug hole and out the ext. port, put a inpact gun on the clutch to change the gear and it would not run after he done that. that was a first for me to see someone use a screwdriver as a piston stop

 

[rahtreelimbs]

Real nice way to ruin a perfectly good saw!!!

 

[rupedoggy]

Ed, That is a rare racing part you have there. John Lambert told me that is how he gets the perfect exhaust timing for his race saws. You have found one of the early JL ported saws. If it has the Walkerized muffler then you know it was his personal favorite. That may be the one that was stolen from the back of his truck when he was in the library reading Robert Service poems. Mike

 

[ehp]

ok if you say so
Yes it costs him a piston , just sanded the jug to make sure no edge was going to hurt the ring and put her back together and she is alive and well

 

[Gypo Logger]

Hi Mike, that is exactly what happened, I miss that knotched piston 288. Serves me right though, being a bookworm and all trying to memorize Rhymes of a Roughneck by Robert Service, published 1950, by Dodd Mead.
John

 

[IndyIan]

Gypo's signatures got me interested in Robert Service's poems so I searched and found this site.

http://www.robertwservice.com/index.php

Go to the library section and you can find Rhymes of a Roughneck and many more of his writings.

Ian

 

[Gypo Logger]

Here is a useful link to the book of verse mentioned. Also it can be found in More Collected Verse, published 1966.
How did we go from 3120 strokers to reciting prose?
John

http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi

 

[Gypo Logger]

Here is another useful link to R.W.S., where I contributed a few pictures of the Yukon.
John

http://www.mounthoreb.org/Servicearchives.html

 

[Gypo Logger]

Another thing not to do to a saw, is never take the choke baffle out unless you pack a bar wrench, bar wench, whatever, however, one gets good at snappin those clasps on a KD346 with a makeshift oak twig so you can put a finger over the filterless venturi so as to choke said saw.
Anywho, I ripped 2 24ft. cedars thru the heart lengthways thru the heart with a 13" bar and one tank of fuel so as to make a foot path over yon creek. Saw blasted thru as though paper mache'. Took pics, but alas had disc error, better get back to my CD3000.
John