Mono Chainsaws

[sawnami]

Here's a Model 35 that was in a dealer inventory as a parts donor. Layed around disassembled with most of the parts getting tossed around wherever. Back together now. Never has been run.

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[sawnami]

Model 7 with a Power Products AH-81

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[67L36Driver]

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[heimannm]

I have the Model 80 rebadged as a Ward 90. Makes a lot of noise, but the cookies are slow to bake.



I have a 58 in pieces in the attic, maybe one day...

Mark

 

[67L36Driver]

It's not the destination but the trip Mark.

 

[Code_Red]

I was at an old friends house this weekend and found this guy laying around. apparently it was his grandfathers. dont know much about it but it looks like its in good shape. appears to be similar to the model 35 above.

 

[sawnami]

Ran across an old picture of the Mono Manufacturing plant here in Springfield. This is where all the Mono chainsaws were built

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[heimannm]

Nice piece of history there Steve.

Here's another shot of mine before it was worked over. This one is done up in the bronze and crème color scheme of Wards.



Mark

 

[sawnami]

Picked up this Mono 25 yesterday. It's the only one that I've ever seen anywhere. Got it off of an O & R engine collector that I've been acquainted with for many years. He finally decided to sell it and gave me a call.
22cc gear drive with a 10 inch bar and 3/8" lo pro. The motor was originally designed for model airplanes

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[Fishnuts2]

Looks like the Mono version of the O & R motor is the most practical and useful of all the variants.


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[Philbert]

Never heard of Mono chainsaws: you guys seem to know a lot more.

Met a guy who had one, that had been in his family for quite a while. Said that he had it running a while back, and was going to work on it again.

Model SL145 Type 1460

Philbert

 

[@Michael]

Met a guy who had one, that had been in his family for quite a while. Said that he had it running a while back, and was going to work on it again.

I got it running this morning. Only took a few squirts of gas and a couple [hundred] pulls.

The story:

My grandfather ran a small engine & saw filing shop starting in the early 1950's through the mid '70's. The shop was in SE Wisconsin a few miles from the Power Products factory. He was a Mono dealer for a while, so there were always a handful of new, used and customer Mono's laying around.

As a teenager, I worked for him doing small engine valve jobs, rings, pistons, etc. When he passed away in the early '80's I knew he had a dozen old saws in the attic above his shop, so I grabbed one. The handwritten tag on it said 'Needs carb'. The tag was in my handwriting. Apparently I had diagnosed it a decade earlier, the customer didn't want to pay to fix it & didn't want it back, so we had left it unrepaired.

I've kept it ever since, using it once every decade or so. When Philip was at my place it had not been run for about 15 years.

I only ran it for a few seconds- it doesn't idle, needs carb adjustment, etc. I didn't have the correct 16:1 mix available & my method of dumping random amounts of oil and gas in the tank and shaking the saw really hard isn't the best way to keep the saw from seizing, so I didn't attempt to run it long enough to tune it.

--Mike

 

[Woodslasher]

I got it running this morning. Only took a few squirts of gas and a couple [hundred] pulls.

The story:

My grandfather ran a small engine & saw filing shop starting in the early 1950's through the mid '70's. The shop was in SE Wisconsin a few miles from the Power Products factory. He was a Mono dealer for a while, so there were always a handful of new, used and customer Mono's laying around.

As a teenager, I worked for him doing small engine valve jobs, rings, pistons, etc. When he passed away in the early '80's I knew he had a dozen old saws in the attic above his shop, so I grabbed one. The handwritten tag on it said 'Needs carb'. The tag was in my handwriting. Apparently I had diagnosed it a decade earlier, the customer didn't want to pay to fix it & didn't want it back, so we had left it unrepaired.

I've kept it ever since, using it once every decade or so. When Philip was at my place it had not been run for about 15 years.

I only ran it for a few seconds- it doesn't idle, needs carb adjustment, etc. I didn't have the correct 16:1 mix available & my method of dumping random amounts of oil and gas in the tank and shaking the saw really hard isn't the best way to keep the saw from seizing, so I didn't attempt to run it long enough to tune it.

--Mike

That's a pretty awesome story! Just a quick fyi, 16:1 was for the olden days when mix oil was 30wt, a good 32:1 or 40:1 mix should work just fine in it.

 

[Resto Guy]

I have added this Mono to my collection of winter restoration projects. I need some help to confirm what I have....I cannot find any tags,stamps or any ID showing the model and serial number. Looks to me to be a model 35 made from 1963 to 1964. Is that correct?
Thanks

 

[heimannm]

 

[heimannm]

 

[heimannm]

 

[wolfriverchainsaw.com]

Great looking machine.. glad to see the old girl back together.

 

[They call me Mr. Kibbs]

Pretty work! I was given one similar to that in the OP in trade for getting an 034AV back in running shape after being run over. The Mono had been in a barn for several years and had about an inch of pigeon poo covering. During the course of cleaning it, a good portion of the paint came off so am in the process of taking it down to bare metal and re-painting.
Hard lesson learned, the fuel line attachment at the tank came loose, and during the course of re-soldering it back on, some of the other solder lines on the tank started to soften.....very quickly learned to wrap unaffected parts with wet rags to keep them cool

 

[Resto Guy]

Just finished this restoration...fun project. I am now looking for a 131cc Mono to restore.