"You Suck" Thread 2018--Pics required!

[belgian]

How about some freebies I got last week :

• Homelite 922 XL
• Mc 550
• Mc SP125 in super shape
• Mc SP125 power head that I was able to complete with parts from another parts saw I had.

All are ecxellent runners now.

Yep, 2018 started great for me.

 

[MiloFrance]

Evening all. Not sure about the 'You suck' title of the thread, but recent events seem to fit, so here goes, cutting a short story longer.
Beginning November I was asked by a couple of Australians if I could drive their house contents to their new place, 300 odd miles away, to a village called Bellenaves. Of course I said, 5th January.
I've been looking for a small saw (elageuse in French, one handed type) on the French equivalent of Craigslist, with no luck yet, but at the beginning of December I saw a nice looking old Echo for sale for €50, in working condition. I phoned the chap and asked him where he was. "Bellenaves" he said. I asked him if he could wait until January, and sent him a cheque.
So I had time to pick up the saw before the friends arrived, I left at 5.30 this morning. Called him, he came out to find me as his house is tucked away. He passed the saw out to me, and picked up a second saw saying I could have that one free as it wasn't working. Still had the original spanner and book, and he apparently pretty much built a good part of his house with that saw and a couple of oaks he cut with it 30 years ago.

So a 600 mile round trip and the seller is in the village I'm being well paid to drive to? Had to be done. Meet my new saws... The 750 is working, but so far after a quick glance at the 452, there's no spring return on the throttle and the HT lead is shot on the small one. I may be back somewhere in the forum for more advice . If I count the Stihl combi, I now have 5 chain saws. Does that make me an addict or a collector?

 

[dynodave]

good job belgian & Milofrance....
you suck=better than a super good deal!

 

[Deleted member 83629]

Not sure if this is you suck or not but anyways.
Seen this echo cs 5000 on craigslist for 50.00 begging to be saved i dragged it home it does run and oil but needs a tune up and good cleaning. Still has the original bar with a loop of oregon 33sl chain on it should make a fun and interesting project.

 

[MiloFrance]

So the morning after, and I've had a better look. I think apart from the 452 breaking down, these were very well looked after. Original bars maybe? neither particularly dirty. I'm not letting myself do anything else to them until I tidy my sh!t up (last pic...). I've been searching for serial info on Echo, but they seem to have changed the system. So they're either both 1980 or I don't have a clue. Anyone got some good info? Serials are 0054428 for the 452VL and 0017972 for the 750EVL.

 

[deezlfan]

I'll throw this out here for your consideration. Free from the BIL.

 

[Timberjack zack]

Those 410 are as solid and a block and pull like a train

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[Deleted member 83629]

So the morning after, and I've had a better look. I think apart from the 452 breaking down, these were very well looked after. Original bars maybe? neither particularly dirty. I'm not letting myself do anything else to them until I tidy my sh!t up (last pic...). I've been searching for serial info on Echo, but they seem to have changed the system. So they're either both 1980 or I don't have a clue. Anyone got some good info? Serials are 0054428 for the 452VL and 0017972 for the 750EVL.


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late 70's early 80's the 452vl is a common model.

 

[Deleted member 83629]

update on the 50.00 echo i flushed the stale mix out of the tank and replaced the chain it seems to run good now just need to do some fine tuning on the carb and get the rim replaced then it will be ready to go.

 

[John Lyngdal]

I purchased this HD Stihl Trimmer harness for $20 yesterday


and got this FS250 for free



Found it on Craigslist two weeks after it was posted as a "salvage" item. Somewhat thinking it was a futile effort, I contacted the seller to see if was still available. I was gobsmacked to hear back that it no one had grabbed it before me. It was about a three hour drive over the Cascades to Bend Oregon where it was located. I offered to have a local friend stop by and pick it up for me, send them funds in the mail, or via PayPal. The seller said he would hold it for me for two weeks until my next scheduled trip from Eugene to Bend which occurred yesterday. The FS250 had a previous life as a United Rental item and was later purchased by an employee of another rental company 5 years ago where it had spent its life languishing in his shed.With the rental history I was expecting to find a low compression straight gassed engine or one that was locked up. At $20 that would have still been a bargain just for the parts. But no, a simple pull cord test indicated that it had compression. Gave him $20 and floated out of the equipment rental shop. Today I was able to really check it out. I pulled the spark plug and it was a carbon fouled mess, shot a little fresh mix into the cylinder and measured the compression at about 125 psi. The air filter was an oily mess, which might be the cause of the fouled spark plug. Inside the fuel tank was an thick oil mess. Clearly the saw was stored years ago with a full tank of fuel in it. It took a couple rinse cycles with fresh ethanol free 40:1 to remove the sludge like oil from the tank. Next step was a half full tank of EF 40:1 with a dash of Sea Foam, a couple of pumps from the priming bulb(that had clearly stiffed over time), and a shot of fuel down the carburetor throat. After a a dozen pulls or so the engine popped, after another two dozen pulls the engine came to life belching a huge amount of smoke from residual oil in the fuel lines. After several minutes of running the smoke reduced to almost normal levels so I took it to WOT and let it run for several more minutes. Let it go back to idle, where it died. Ran the LA screw in several turns and tried idling it again, but it still died. I'm think the diaphragm in the carburetor has suffered from ethanol exposure. After running the compression was measuring almost 140 psi. As soon as I address the idling issue and the general rough running of the engine, I'm going to find some brush to punish.

 

[happysaws]

Lancaster 820, equipped with West Bend 820 @135cc.
Paid $25.00 at a local auction. There were well over 300 saws there.
Actually bought this last year, but still tinkering with it now.
Since I bought it, it's gotten a bigger bore carb with some extra little mods, hi performance reeds, hi performance head w/ decomp release, thin head gasket, "muffler mod", rim sprocket set-up, and big air filter.
It looks more like the 3rd pic now.

 

[67L36Driver]

Lancaster 820, equipped with West Bend 820 @135cc.
Paid $25.00 at a local auction. There were well over 300 saws there.
Actually bought this last year, but still tinkering with it now.
Since I bought it, it's gotten a bigger bore carb with some extra little mods, hi performance reeds, hi performance head w/ decomp release, thin head gasket, "muffler mod", rim sprocket set-up, and big air filter.
It looks more like the 3rd pic now.

Real ‘cant racer there’! [emoji33]

[emoji106]

070/090 Tilly HL?

 

[happysaws]

Real ‘cant racer there’! [emoji33]

[emoji106]

070/090 Tilly HL?

It's a Tilly HL, but not off an 070/090. Bought a truckload of chainsaw parts for $20; filled a 5 foot bed almost 2 layers thick. Found it in there, have no idea what it's for.
1 1/16" bore.

 

[dynodave]

It's a Tilly HL, but not off an 070/090. Bought a truckload of chainsaw parts for $20; filled a 5 foot bed almost 2 layers thick. Found it in there, have no idea what it's for.
1 1/16" bore.

I have one huge tillotson and it came off my dad's old AMF(harley davidson)((2 stroke)) golf cart??? I saw no application on any of my old big saws with this series carb.

 

[67L36Driver]

I just ordered a 070/090 Tilly HL just to have on on hand for the next Power Products turd that shows up.[emoji106]

Used one on my Clinton D35.

 

[calvin55267]

Traded my coworker about 1/3 cord of some rotted wood for this, only cut about 20 cord since new.

175 psi of compression, advanced the timing and did a conservative port/polish job on it and threw on a 28inch bar.

Pulls hard in big Doug fir, can't complain.

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[president]

It's a Tilly HL, but not off an 070/090. Bought a truckload of chainsaw parts for $20; filled a 5 foot bed almost 2 layers thick. Found it in there, have no idea what it's for.
1 1/16" bore.holy captive bar nuts ,batman,some haul for 20 bucks

 

[alderman]

Picked up this 488 for $80. Rough around the edges, but a carb rebuild and a few parts from a parts saw and it runs fine.

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[Icedogs28]

My latest freebies! My brother picked the echos (302 and 315) out of a junk pile for me, they cleaned up nice. And the D44 was pulled out of an old barn. I'm sure it will need work, but it's 100% complete

 

[95custmz]

My latest freebies! My brother picked the echos (302 and 315) out of a junk pile for me, they cleaned up nice. And the D44 was pulled out of an old barn. I'm sure it will need work, but it's 100% complete

Where's this junk pile? I'd like to go check it out, myself.