My Drf255- ported 036 VIDEO

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That factory Zama carb runs awesome, but I'll get to that a little later. I was worried about it after reading many poor reviews but it rocks

 

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It's a metal badge, West German made 1990 vintage saw. Here's the difficult to find fine metal airfilter. I was able to find two and sent one to Al for his project

 

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All assembled and ready to run for the first time. Al fitted her with some old plastic if there were any "problems" during the first start up. The original covers are really nice and I have to modify the cylinder cover to fit the 036 cylinder anyways

 

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These are the factory covers. I have a regular, non winter cover too that's not pictured.

The second photo shows the difference between the two. The 036 is on the right

 

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Was at the dealer getting a part for my blower and he had this newer style used cover that I bought from him. I love the "sleeper" look of the metal badge and hate to modify such a nice cover, but since I've modified the saw already I might just get out the Dremel. Decisions decisions

 

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Piston shot after the initial run. Poor Al took out a new square file chain trying to get a video of this beast running.

 

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Better shot of the muffler. Had my tach all taped up and ready to go...it decided to not cooperate today. The tach not the saw

 

[jmssaws]

I hear it runs very well,as always good clean work al. Impressive once again.

I got a pretty little 026 in the mail today,
Thanks al! You homo.

 

[drf256]

Pat, can't wait till you run it, it's just "right".

You were easy to deal with, no sweat bro.

Cool thread.

 

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So how does it run???? Well, Al told me that he'd kill me if I ever sold it and wanted first dibs if I ever did. I think he real did like it. Al did tune it and has it tuned fat to run 14,500. It is really impressive. Compression is high. We are thinking it is around 225+ right now, but I'll check later after a few tanks. All I can tell you is that it is more difficult to pull than the Makita/Dolmar 7910 I just assembled.

Sadly I don't have any wood to cut right now here at my house, but I did run it today. It started on the third pull (having been drained and stuck in a mail truck for 5 days), idles great without any hint of dying or chain spin, and has a really responsive throttle. She totally is snappy when you blip the throttle. Al will have to chime in with his run time on this saw. I'm going to find a decent log and attempt a video for this saw. I'm blown away with the performance of this saw. He built a very strong saw and totally exceeded my expectations in every way. Thanks again Al!

 

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Now if I can get @drf255 to start working on Dolmars, my 7910 conversion is giving me fits.

 

[drf256]

This is what hitting a maple tap in the first inch of cut looks like.

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Oops. I hate it when that happens.

 

[psuiewalsh]

Can you cut a maple tree in Ontario and not hit a maple tap? It is the second most popular drink after Labatt's isn't it?

 

[angelo c]

Can you cut a maple tree in Ontario and not hit a maple tap? It is the second most popular drink after Labatt's isn't it?

What's funnier is that at Al's house on "Wrong Island" NY, all the Maple trees were "tapped" (and that's where the vid was shot..)

 

[Canadian farm boy]

I've cut a "bit" of sugar maple. Honestly I've never hit a tap but I have found a lot of nails and staples.
As for the second most popular drink IDK Tim hortons coffee is ranked pretty high up on that list

 

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Here is a long overdue video of the 036 Al @drf255 ported for me. The saw rocks! It doesn't know its a 60cc saw. This is one that will not be sold. I finally took some video after cutting 8 cookies of fresh Ash so it's not a fresh chain. It's wearing a 20" ES bar and Oregon LGX. It is still breaking in and shows 0.9 hrs on my tach. I have seen 14990 on the tach. It runs awesome, starts on the third or fourth pull cold and with an empty tank and always one pull hot. It will idle all day long. I need a real chain though and I might need to bother a pro here to make me a chain worthy of his work.

Wish I had a decent compression tester. You have to be committed to pull it. It by far takes more of an effort than my new 7910 (without using the de-comp on the 80cc). I'll get a reading shortly when I can borrow a buddy's, but I am sure it is north of 200.

 

[Jughead]

Here is a long overdue video of the 036 Al @drf255 ported for me. The saw rocks! It doesn't know its a 60cc saw. This is one that will not be sold. I finally took some video after cutting 8 cookies of fresh Ash so it's not a fresh chain. It's wearing a 20" ES bar and Oregon LGX. It is still breaking in and shows 0.9 hrs on my tach. I have seen 14990 on the tach. It runs awesome, starts on the third or fourth pull cold and with an empty tank and always one pull hot. It will idle all day long. I need a real chain though and I might need to bother a pro here to make me a chain worthy of his work.

Wish I had a decent compression tester. You have to be committed to pull it. It by far takes more of an effort than my new 7910 (without using the de-comp on the 80cc). I'll get a reading shortly when I can borrow a buddy's, but I am sure it is north of 200.

dayum!

 

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That saw is screaming !!! Awesome


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I know nothing about chains so please bear with me. How much should I take off of the rakers?