IEL-Pioneer thread

[Fishnuts2]

Got him cleaned up and running. One of the contacts of the ignition points was loose and couldn’t make a clean break. Fortunate to find a NOS set and now have good spark. Cuts well for its age!

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[fossil]

Tough question.

Does anyone know if a 3270 full wrap bar can be adapted to fit a 3200? I can't figure what the difference would be but the PN's are different.
Different PN's for the the regular bars on the IPL's too.

Thanks

 

[rocketnorton]

ive swapped them the other way
may have had to swap the top mount too
been a while, and 3200 is gone now

 

[fossil]

Thanks Pete.

 

[old_sir_henry]

Here is my latest PIONEER addidtion to my collection: P20.
Bought her back in november last year but didn't manage to review her until now.
Not a beauty queen but in fair shape and with a good AF-cover.

 

[Basher]

Here is my latest PIONEER addidtion to my collection: P20.
Bought her back in november last year but didn't manage to review her until now.
Not a beauty queen but in fair shape and with a good AF-cover.

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That saw is in good shape, the airfilter covers in unbroken condition is a rarity, my collection has a few P26 AND 28`s but no P20 yet.

 

[old_sir_henry]

@Basher: I agree, she is in overall good shape although she has her spots:

I had to repair the wrap handle since it was broken and been fixed with a flat iron rod





and the coating did suffer badly from my cleaning efforts: Only seconds of contact with oven cleaner spray sufficed to bleach the painting, very good visible underneath the "Easy Arc" decal which protected the coating from cleaning detergent.
The AF-cover has its bottom-left edge broken but I think that's acceptable...



The quality of Pioneer's coatings is very confusing IMHO: This one bleached when exposed for a few seconds to alkaline medium, on a different Pioneer of mine, the coating on the saw's body could be peeled of by tearing a decal from it while the same saw's pulley
I had to take to a professional sand blasting shop to get the paint off.

 

[Basher]

On some Pioneers the paint would remove itself just sitting, on others even bead blasting took some time to get it off, hit or miss really.

 

[Basher]

The paint has stayed really nice on this shelf Queen,

 

[old_sir_henry]

That's an extremely beautiful shelf queen!
Only thing puzzling me: Shouldn't the starter rope route above the blank guide-roll
instead of below it like shown on your saw? At least IPLs and owner's manuals
seem to suggest the former.

 

[Basher]

That's an extremely beautiful shelf queen!
Only thing puzzling me: Shouldn't the starter rope route above the blank guide-roll
instead of below it like shown on your saw? At least IPLs and owner's manuals
seem to suggest the former.

That`s right and it was rerouted shortly after that set of pics were taken, It has not even been pulled over by the recoil since it was built, I have a new set of pics of it somewhere.

 

[Yukon Stihl]

Picked up a mixed batch of vintage saws,manuals and parts on a road trip.
Some old IEL manuals and hand written notes.

 

[Squareground3691]

Some chain exploration.

 

[jacob j.]

This is the cleanest 750 I've ever seen:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325313332578

 

[Lee H]

It's a clean one for sure and over 500 with 4 days left.

 

[Squareground3691]

Took the baffle core out of the P51 muffler, def improvement on performance and sounds a lot better to after retuned .

 

[fossil]

We had out second GTG this past weekend. One of the games involves cutting a white ash cookie in some pretty wide cc classes. I won the 60 - 80cc class again this year by a scant margin with my 3200. Quick saw. Totally stock.

I think there were about 15 entries with a mix of older and newer saws in that cc ran.ge.

I hit 4.31 seconds in a approximately 14" log.

The saw is a beauty to look at. Everyone thinks it's an aberration.

 

[Pioneer]

I like that, I know where there’s a 3270s, might be a fun project.
I did have a 3200 before and was impressed with its power.
I have sold most of my Pioneer saws to make room for my growing PM Canadien saw collection.
But some are keepers.
It would be nice to have more room, when I buy a few I have to pick a few to sell.
Shelves are full 4 are in boxes ready to put together.

 

[Pioneer]

Picked up a nice IEL Backpack rock drill, have to find a drill rod and bit for it.

 

[Yukon Stihl]

I have a number of bits,not sure about the rod though.
Can you take a closeup of the coupler with a measurement?