whitesnake
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What's the cost on them? Seems prices went up a fair amount.
Dolmar 64xx/73xx/79xx series, smurfs and solo 665/675/681 thread
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It is NOT "worth" more than any other quality saw in the same class!
What is being asked for them is just stupid and a completely other story.
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I was in this thread for a long time and always want a saw of this family. The Solos has longer stroke while builders swap dolmar jugs on them. Whats the story of this family and whats the differences? Educate me plz.
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The PS-6400/7300/7900 and Solo 665/675/681 saw family was a joint development venture of Dolmar and Solo which went bust with the Makita takeover of Dolmar.
Those two saw families are basically the same with moderate variations.
That is why the Dolmar cylinders fit on the Solo's with a 1mm spacer due to the Solo featuring a 1mm longer stroke.
There was something about the Solo cranks coming apart as opposed to Dolmar cranks staying in one piece, but I guess that issue has been remedied.
As Solo got acquired by ALKO spare parts supply became difficult so people converting 665's to 681's resorted to 52mm PS-7900/7910 cylinders.
The Solo 694 is the same as the Dolmar PS-9000/9010 with minimal differences in the outer plastic parts and decals.
Same innards, same cc.
That is my understanding of the large frame Dolmar vs Solo thing.
I could be wrong, so take it as an assumption and not confirmed fact.
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You’d think the price should go down in a saw with a more failure prone bottom end… but I guess that’s not the case since people continue to pay absurd prices for them. Lol. I guess there more of a collectors piece for the cool factor than anything else.
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No wonder it leaked oil below the muffler. And not much of mystery why the top front case bolt needs a helicoil
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what’s left of the gasket. Surprised how easy it came off.
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Awesome thread lads!
Ima get me one of these one day.
Ima get me one of these one day.
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My Dolmar PS-7310 wearing one of my 24" bars for the first time.
It is a nice setup, I used it for three full tanks yesterday bucking up a large wind blown uprooted oak tree.
Bar came from Dan @AlfA01 , used Windsor chain (and numerous others including new unused loops) came from Sondre @SOS Ridgerider - thank You guys!
It is a nice setup, I used it for three full tanks yesterday bucking up a large wind blown uprooted oak tree.
Bar came from Dan @AlfA01 , used Windsor chain (and numerous others including new unused loops) came from Sondre @SOS Ridgerider - thank You guys!
