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[S&S_Work_Saws]

I have an older Husky 257 that runs but compression is getting a bit low.
It doesn’t get a lot of use because my 361 runs circles around it so I would love to make it a candidate for your project.

I'll send you a pm

 

[S&S_Work_Saws]

I'm just going to say that my original offer to port some saws for free was and still is intended for active OPE members. Not people who opened an ope account just to try to get a Saw built for free.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you found your way to the forum but there is still a sizeable waiting list for the guys who have been here for years.
I'll still take guys saws that aren't well known ope members also but it's not going to be free. Between my day job, paying customers port work, local loggers repairs, and occasionally working on an ope members porting, my lead time is already getting out to around 3 months.
None the less, just let me know what you've got and your goals with it and I'll do my level best to help.

 

[ErnieG]

Get a chance to run the 372 at all yet @ErnieG ??

I have only ran a about a tank through it so far ...still working a lot so don't have time but I'm hoping in a few weeks to start cutting firewood.
Just the little bit of run time was very impressive!

Ernie

 

[FergusonTO35]

I'm just going to say that my original offer to port some saws for free was and still is intended for active OPE members. Not people who opened an ope account just to try to get a Saw built for free.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you found your way to the forum but there is still a sizeable waiting list for the guys who have been here for years.
I'll still take guys saws that aren't well known ope members also but it's not going to be free. Between my day job, paying customers port work, local loggers repairs, and occasionally working on an ope members porting, my lead time is already getting out to around 3 months.
None the less, just let me know what you've got and your goals with it and I'll do my level best to help.

Any chance you would do an Echo CS-500P? It's the same design as the Stihl/Husky/Dolmar pro saws. I'm just looking for more grunt with an 18" bar since it's my "big" saw. The muffler is already pretty open from the factory. My understanding is that this saw benefits alot from porting, and Echo effectively did this with the current CS-500P.

 

[Hinerman]

Bump. Any updates from anybody that got their saw ported?

 

[Woodslasher]

Bump. Any updates from anybody that got their saw ported?

I got my 350 back, I haven't run it with a sharp chain yet though 'cause I'm a slacker. Sounded pretty good and cut at least as good as stock with a trashed chain though. I finished the cut and went "that seemed kinda 'meh'" then looked at the chain I put on and it was pretty badly rocked. 2nd full week of November is a vacay week for me so chances are I'll be doing a cut report on it then.

 

[S&S_Work_Saws]

Bump. Any updates from anybody that got their saw ported?

My lathe took a dump on me a couple weeks ago. I finally got it drug out of my shop and I'm headed to pick up a much bigger machine this morning. Going from a Chinese 500 pound lathe to a 2000+ pound machine is going to be nice.

 

[S&S_Work_Saws]

I got my 350 back, I haven't run it with a sharp chain yet though 'cause I'm a slacker. Sounded pretty good and cut at least as good as stock with a trashed chain though. I finished the cut and went "that seemed kinda 'meh'" then looked at the chain I put on and it was pretty badly rocked. 2nd full week of November is a vacay week for me so chances are I'll be doing a cut report on it then.

Obviously don't forget to fine tune the carb. They always seem to need dialed in for whatever your atmospheric situation is vs mine. That little saw should rip for a 50cc powerhead.

 

[Bill G]

My lathe took a dump on me a couple weeks ago. I finally got it drug out of my shop and I'm headed to pick up a much bigger machine this morning. Going from a Chinese 500 pound lathe to a 2000+ pound machine is going to be nice.

What lathe did you have and what are you getting?

 

[S&S_Work_Saws]

What lathe did you have and what are you getting?

I had a Jet BD-920N which is a 9x20 Chinese lathe. Even after all the mods it was not great quality. The slide and compound had a lot of flex in them especially with a boring bar extended several inches into a cylinder.
I found a rare old lathe from an old timer that imported it to modify shotgun barrels. It's a Talleres Nodo 160-B. It's a 13" x 54" and it's insane the difference in quality and just sheer weight. I'm not sure what it would take to flex this old compound or tool post. I'm sure it won't hesitate in a saw cylinder. I believe it weighs around 1600 pounds and is about 7' long over all. Should have done this a long time ago.
It had been sitting not under power for several years. I got it home, changed the oil in the old Norton gearbox headstock and it's purring again.

 

[Bill G]

The old Green Jet machines from the early 1980's were not bad.
I have a Clausing.

 

[S&S_Work_Saws]

The old Green Jet machines from the early 1980's were not bad.
I have a Clausing.

The old ones were great. Even now the bigger gear head models are pretty good. My little brother had a Jet 12"x36" gear head that was an amazing piece. The small Chinese 9x19 design is great for what it was designed for with the exception of the compound clamp design. The original model they all copied it from I believe was the Enco 10. It's I'm sure better quality then the knock offs.
I just figured I'd find an old piece of iron that was gear driven and the max size I could fit into my little shop now. No more upgrading possible until I add onto my shop some day.

 

[srcarr52]

The old Green Jet machines from the early 1980's were not bad.
I have a Clausing.

That's what I have. A green Jet 1340 that was the same as a Takang or Camtak.

 

[Bill G]

The new metal shop for the school was built in the early 1980's. I believe the first classes were in the Fall of 1982. Prior to this all they had more metals was sheet metal and some welding in the Ag shop. The new shop was to be a dedicated basic machine shop. Since it was new they had to buy all new equipment. They bought mostly green Jet. There were (4) 10x24 bench lathes and one 14x36 floor lathe. The mill, surface grinder, drill press, vertical bandsaw, and most else were all green Jet. There was geared-head drill press that was a deeper green and I do not know what brand it was. That thing was sweet. The forward, stop, and reverse were controlled by wrist motion on the handle.

All the welding equipment was Miller. The arc units were Thunderbolts. The MIG units were Millermatic 200-250 units. There was one TIG that got virtually no use.

They ran the shop until "Doc" the instructor was ready to retire in 1993. I worked with him his final year but I was moving on the teach Agriculture/FFA. I guess they did make a half-arsed attempt to find a replacement but not really. The shop sat unused with all equipment in place. I tried to get them to re-open it but the politics of the day in administration was against it. I was teaching in another district at the time. Around 1998 they had an auction and sold the equipment. The dipstick auctioneer advertised all equipment as 3 phase and only a few pieces were. It was a sad day for me as I helped load equipment. I told the young kid they got the TIG that I hoped it found a good home as it had very few hours on it.

 

[S&S_Work_Saws]

That's a pretty sad story. Shop class seems to have almost entirely disappeared everywhere. I live in a rural community and the FFA presence is pretty strong but still not anything like the shop class I had when I was in school. Kids these days are missing out on a lot of hands on training and in turn their apparently filling their time now with smoking tide pods, staring at screens all day, and facing the ever perplexing issue of wondering "Am I male or female?" It's a sad state of affairs we're living in today.

 

[Mastermind]

That's a pretty sad story. Shop class seems to have almost entirely disappeared everywhere. I live in a rural community and the FFA presence is pretty strong but still not anything like the shop class I had when I was in school. Kids these days are missing out on a lot of hands on training and in turn their apparently filling their time now with smoking tide pods, staring at screens all day, and facing the ever perplexing issue of wondering "Am I male or female?" It's a sad state of affairs we're living in today.

We had a small engine repair class when I was in elementary school.

 

[S&S_Work_Saws]

We had a small engine repair class when I was in elementary school.

Really wish they'd bring stuff like that back. I never really knew how good I had it coming up I guess. I grew up riding 2 stroke dirt bikes. When it broke (weekly) my father would sit and walk me through fixing it myself.

 

[Bill G]

We had a small engine repair class when I was in elementary school.

When I was young the closest to that we had here for elementary kids was through 4-H. There was a local guy that would dedicate one night a week to teach 4-H kids small engines. Another guy did the same with woodworking. At that time 4-H began at the third grade and ran through the 12th grade. Through grade school darn near every kid was in 4-H. The numbers dropped of a bit as junior high and high school activities started.

 

[S&S_Work_Saws]

I had a local lady call me a while back and tell me about her son. She said he has down syndrome and was super interested in small engines. They wouldn't let him participate in any shop class in school. She asked if I would be willing to let him hang around the shop here and there and teach him some stuff. I told her I'd absolutely do that, but it probably wasn't a good idea for him to be operating a chainsaw. What do I know though. He might be great with a saw. I don't know a lot ,but what I have learned, I love being able to pass on. If we can get ANY young person away from a phone or TV screen and into a shop doing anything, then it's a great thing and I feel like I've done my part.