Ute load of chainsaws

**741Baus** · 14th May 2009, 03:03 PM

I went over to BIL's place today because he has given me a list of saws that he would like to take to the vintage machinery show in September . I grabbed 7 saws 1958 Solo Rex (parts saw and to use as a guide to reassemble the other Solo )2 x 1963 Stihl 08's 1 going 1 seized (parts saw) 1-1968 Homelite super xp1020 , 1 MacCulloch 250 manual oiler only ,1 MacCulloch 10-10 and a Pioneer 3270 .
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Most of these saws only need minor tinkering , like cleaning the points and making sure wasps haven't built nests in the exhausts ,stuff like that ,mainly because BIL only lives about 30 metres from the water front so things do corrode despite our best efforts .
After getting them home I decide to forgo working on the Solo and concentrate on the other ones with minor problems , so I cleared off my bench and started to tear down the Stihl 08 it only needed a points clean and adjust, another choke knob , a clean out of all the curd on it ,and tightening up all the crank/case screws etc .
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I made another short video of the Stihl running .

Cheers Peter

**BobL** · 14th May 2009, 09:44 PM

Love the sound of that 08S,

56cc weighing in @ 8.4 kg ! - ie built like a tank. (for comparison a 660 weighs 7.5 kg)

I love those old saws.

**741Baus** · 14th May 2009, 10:06 PM

So do I Bob , I've only put it in to a log once and all you had to do was steer it ,didn't go to fast but it didn't stop .

**BobL** · 14th May 2009, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by 741Baus

So do I Bob , I've only put it in to a log once and all you had to do was steer it ,didn't go to fast but it didn't stop .

the CSCC site says 7000 rpm but run all day. 20:1 mix too I see, they used to smoke like a chimney pipe with the old lubes, not so bad today although all the new lubes really do in that area is have additives that make the smoke particles smaller hence invisible - still not good for you though.

**jb2824** · 30th May 2009, 11:50 AM

Yep, I use mine all the time, and my father used it before me. When I was out in Coonamble I'd cut belah and wilga for drought feed with it every day, innumerable cyprus fence posts, yellow box firewood etc etc. Now I'm using it to remove cottoneaster and radiata at me mum's in the highlands. My mate won't touch it without the safety cut-off though, I'm very careful

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