Vintage Homelite??? Serial # TZ - 1266409

[joeybc]

Found: Old Vintage Homelite Zip Chainsaw

Serial # TZ 1266409

unidentified model; looking for market value

missing: bar, chain and possible coverings - for sale!
(engine turns over - hasn't seized)

Manufactured: Terry Machinery Company Ltd. Montreal, Canada

 

[habanero]

Zip is the model name. As for market value, that's a loaded question. For most, it likely isn't worth more than the scrap value of the metal. For the right person, it might be worth something for parts. It's missing quite a few items and has a broken bar stud-both are going to hurt its value. You see these once in a while on ebay, but I've never paid much attention to what they go for.

 

[joeybc]

Thank You

so what year would it be then?

 

[ray benson]

Year Introduced: July 1958
Year Discontinued: 1962
Looks like a parts saw. Not much value.

 

[joeybc]

Thank You

why was it discontinued?

 

[mbopp]

Dad had a Zip that I resurrected. Complete & running I figured it was worth something only to a collector, I gave it to a member from this site.
Why did they quit making them? Old design, heavy, loud, slow, no anti-vibe or chain brake - take your pick.

 

[eyolf]

Your Zip had it's beginnings in the model 17, about 1954. By about 1958, they figured out they could take the gear drive off and sell some of 'em as a low-end consumer model. There was also a model called the Wiz that had a piece of bent aluminum tubing as a back handle based on this crankcase.


Homelite Xl-12, and all the other lightweight saws killed off the old heavyweights. For example, the Xl-900 series saws would cut rings around the Zip, and weighed about 3# less, although bothe were 80cc saws.

I worked for a jacobsen lawn mower distributor in the early 1980's; Textrom merged Jake and homelite then. Homelite was cleaning out warehouse space in N. Carolina, and found several pallets of these old saws. I remember being disapointed there weren't any bonus saws, like 1050's, in the bunch.
Mostly Wiz's, old-style E-Z's, and a couple C-5's. The whole load went to a junk store in New York...probably for almost nothing.

 

[Dan Dill]

These are similar models. The long bar is a 7-21C and the rust old bugger is the 5-30N "A". Basically the first number is the horsepower and the second the weight of the powerhead. The 7-21 is a 7 H.P. saw that has a 21 pound power head. It was made in 1959. The 5-30 is older and has a 5 H.P. powerhead at 30 pounds.