Recent content by Al Smith

He's probabley right Bill .However if a person is resourcefull you can find just about anything .I'm not boasting but I have a lot of contacts some I know in person and some only by the internet .Here's an example concerning bearings for a Partner p-100 chainsaw it was said one of the bearings...

A story .my oldest daughter who is also my youngest still talks about my first JD model A .1947 seriel number but really a 46 made from left over parts when JD only made things for WW2 . She would say dad brought this thing home in five gallon buckets ,which I did .After about a month of...

More of the yet unsolved saga .It was told to me the machine runs if you "feed it " fuel .What that actualy means I'm not certain of .However doing some research this model uses a cylinder block mounted mechanical "lift pump" just like early autombiles .It in turn feeds the injector pump .If...

From my experiance both JD and Cat do a real good job but parts are not cheap .In the past I've used "surplus" I think in North Dakota but I think they are no longer in business .Might get lucky and it's just a fuel delivery issue .I'll know in a week or two when it gets delivered .Delivery was...

I'm not sure of what model the 410 is but assume it's early . I have a hunch it might just need the fuel system "burped " IE air in the lines some place . I just ran into it trying to help by bud Tom who owns a tree service .He has a diesel Vermeer chipper that won't slip into high speed .I had...

I didn't know where to put this so I landed it here .Much of my life I've just been at the right place at the right time and when I Ieast expect it falls right in my lap . .Today it happened to be an early John Deere 410 back hoe .Runs but needs some work,$1000 . How much work is yet to be...

To follow up on this what you have is galvanic reaction between dissimular metals .In other words it gets stuck.On reassembley you might think of using some type of anti sieze product such as Kopper Coat or Never Seeze .A few years ago after drilling the heads off of 5/8 inch grade 8 cap screws...

Took me a while to find it, if my IPL is correct those are M6 x 1.0 studs .Using a drillpress and trying to get in the center of the broken stud starting with a small drill bit followed by slightly increasing the size of hole you might be able to follow it up with an end mill .Then using a heat...

I think the 024 was rated at 2.9 HP .They only made them for two or three years then it was reworked into the 026 .On these two models there were 3 or 4 different muffler types by design .In my case by gutting the muffler I eliminated what was a highly restricted muffler that actually caused...

That little pup is handy as pocket on a shirt .About 3 inches is almost all it can handle .--twig saw --Direct ship from WW Grainger from a secondary on line seller some where around 50-60 bucks .With both batteries fully charged it can fill a yard cart .With 7.5 acres of woods I have an...

Now the saw .It's stock other than some muffler work .Traded in on of all things a MS 250 ,50 bucks from a dealers dead pile .Rebuilt the carb,gutted the muffler and adapted a clutch drum for an 026 with modifications .The early 024's had a crankshaft driven oil pump not a center drive like an...

Today's little job .Had some big winds lately .Lost some trees because of .Silver maple I noticed a few years ago it was declining ,the wind just get there first .Small job small saw Stihl 024 .I've hd it about 15 years

I've only seen one HD 5 and it was junk .The guy wanted too dang much for scrap iron,I passed .He also had an HD 20 broke down in the middle of a soy bean field that would have taken a Cat D8 to pull out .

Usually the tanks will fail,rust out on the botom of the tank near the drain valve .A dryer works if it's not already water logged .However peroidcally the drain valve should be used to allow the condenstate to leak out .I'm guilty of not doing that myself as often as I should. I do however...