Recent content by Al Smith

I had mentioned that radiant ceiling heat came about during a period when natural gas was difficult to obtain .The electrical power companies had lowered rates for the use of radiant .It was less expensive to install than conventional forced air furnances .Factor in that rural heating systems...

Looks like either a Homelite or one of the take offs in that pileof goodies .

Regarding my two restorations on the P-100's I haven't ran them long enough to even seat the piston rings since I did the work .

Regarding the p-100's I found that model easier to find parts for than the little 3 cubers ,500 and 5000 plus . .It did however take me a lot of research to rebuilt my two p-100's during the covid lock down plus two years to find all the parts . The brand as far as chainsaws was never popular in...

I keep my loader tractor on a maintainer all the time .At the house have three chargers ,A 10 amp 6-12 volt .An Exide that will crank out over100 amps older than the hills and a 36 volt Cushman/Lister for the golf cart that's at least 40 years old .The cart uses three marine deep cycle...

Replaced a u-joint on my Ranger . It had been so long since I did this task I forgotten what a miserable job it was . I used a GMB replacement joint and if I ever do another it will be a Spicer .Never again in the dead of winter laying on a concrete floor .

My house was built during the 80's and it was originally all radiant and basebord electric with no AC.During the orginal time period with the"gold medalian " thing it was not that costly compaired with gas,propane or natural and far less costly to install .The deal with radiant is you could sit...

As a suggestion you might try to contact Larry Stiener who has a blog called Larry's house of saws .This gentleman probably has the most extensive collection of chainsaws and other devices in the USA if not the world .I do know he has quite a few Malls and most likely the knowledge of this type...

Rambling on about this antique Mall .If that magnet on the flywheel in a circle but with a space in the circle it should effectively act just like a set of breaker points .When it hits that space the break would cause the coil to fire because the collapse in the primary winding field in the coil...

You might try a concern in St Mary's Washington that changes names every so often. Started out as "cheap Stihl parts" then cheap chainsaw parts now I think custom chainsaw parts.Was and might still be Bryce Stots or something like that.At any rate at one time had a huge supply of used and new...

If I have not mentioned it before take note by using the bar plates for a 2100 Husqvarna the Husky bars are a perfect option rather than finding OEM Partner .I have all three sets of plates for that model,Partner,Husqvarna and McCulloch .IMO compairing a 2100 Husky to a P-100 the Partner is...

You can try to induce or recharge the magnets using "rare earth " type magnets .Try a google search on the subject .I've done same with limited results on an Echo weed eater .After sitting all winter it would lose charge on one magnet which recharged it then worked the entire season but again...

During the covid lock down I completely rebuilt two P100's ,A McCulloch branded sp1000 and a P-100 super .Using two damaged complete saws and one complete rotating assembley from a donor .I made the gaskets .Used the McCulloch numbers for the McCulloch that had the USA made original seals...

Up date in response to an other forum I looked up Surplus a week or so ago and they had 893 of those valves .They must have cornered the market on those things .

I have the same problem on a Toro zero turn with a Kawasaki 23 HP engine .That application uses a impulse type fuel pump and a "pulsa jet " type carb .I don't know if it looses suction or the carb float blocks it off and it surges but a partial choke clears it up most of the time .Run it like...