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Random thought.... is there an issue where the fuel pump diaphragm is not sealing(the little flap caught resting high on a small imperfection or grit). Fuel pressure from the tank, built up by expansion from a hot engine on the test rum, pushed the inlet needle back over night? I have...

too ease production, maybe they will just make all devices USB-C.....please!

The day phone/tablet chargers are compatible across all lines.....I believe, then you can move forward. Had steel rims on cars for decades, can someone tell me why Dodge thinks their 5 hole rim pattern is superior to say a Chey 5 bolt hole rim pattern? There are billions of cars on the planet...

That 070 kit sure looks legit to me. That is a cool old original box.

Yep, those Misery Whips were punishing!

Here is a nice example of a direct drive diaphragm carb saw from IEL. This is the Model HC. It was an improvement over the HM which depending on sources, was the first successful adaptation of an all position diaphragm carb to a direct drive saw. The HC became really popular for it lighter...

The unique part about the saw when I purchased it, was the engraving on the recoil cover. It lists the owner and the fact that the saw cut over 3 million log feet of lumber(estimated), on the original engine. I always thought that was kind of cool. These little tidbits, make finding these old...

While on the topic of Transmissions and alternate drive systems....Here is my Homelite 26LCS. Little interesting back story on this saw. I picked it up with 3 other Homelites at a defunct saw shop in Libby Montana. This saw was used to clear cut the valley that the Libby dam flooded and is now...

Here is the current project....A Mall 6 transmission, completely stripped on the white table and the helper handle parts on the silver table.

Yes it is. The older saws used a "transmission" or gearbox to allow swivel of the bar for horizontal cuts while keeping the bowl of the carb more or less on the level. Basically before the introduction of the IEL HC in the early 1950"s most power saws used some type of float carb. I'm...

I took this off of the Mall 6 to give it a good clean. Sitting on my workbench was a carb off of a MS-201T M-Tronic. The advancements(or over engineering, LOL), that have come since that Mall carb came off the line in 1947 to run a 200cc saw at 5000rpm.....cutting wood, fast forward 72 years to...

Moving on from a Super Twin over to a Big single.....My Mall 7. Pictured here with the 4ft bar and semi chisel 3/4 pitch chain that came on my Mall 6. In one of the pics you can see the 3ft kerf bar that came with the 3ft bar and original Mall stamped scratcher chain that came with this 7. It is...