Spent a little time with some saws and some friends in the last couple of days.
I have really gotten behind and buried with saws again, I really gotta get rid of some (but I like them so much).
Saws in my shop this weekend - felt like I got stuff accomplished
Rupley Husqvarna 65 alky race saw - tabled until weather is warmer, apparently alky saws hate sub freezing temps
, will need a carb kit and fuel lines, gave it a quick once over and it has a factory alky carb.
Copsey MS441 race saw - put her in a cant and made big grinning faces at each other, repeatedly
Stock all original red lever, west german badge, KS 10mm, nice metal tag 044 - changed the air filter insert, chain catcher, vent tube, fuel filter, ran it in the big log buried and it loved it.
Mofo MS260 - monkeyed around a bit with trying to make a quick and easy way to mount velocity stacks that doesn't lay the filter on the rear handle, baby steps so far, mine has a custom elbow that Mike
@Canadian farm boy built which is beautiful but cant be an easy thing to do or to mass produce
, I ended up with a lot of husky elbows and my mind started moving.
Rupley 394/395 race saw - rebuild carb, new lines and filter, monkeyed with the linkage which somehow isn't as smooth as before the carb rebuild. starts and runs and sounds great, but the rear bar stud spun in the case mounting the bar and chain so I wasn't able to run it in the cant and also cant get the clutch cover off. grrrrr
Rupley Poulan Pro 475 - I didnt do much of anything but it got a carb kit, new lines and filter and after some tinkering with the intake and carb mounting it runs really well, it got dialed in and was impressive.
Not much in the way of pics or videos, but alot of workin' and BSing was done for sure.
A lot of other saws showed up for another day as well as more shelving for parts.
Completed a 357xp for a tree guy, muffler bolt broke off in cylinder, and muffler was hanging loose. Scored piston. Put a new meteor in it, sanded minor carbon transfer in cylinder. Got lucky and used vise grips to lock on end of broken bolt and slowly twist it out. Few odds and ends and she runs great set at 13,800rpm, compression is rising as well, much better than before. Might jb weld rear spring mount as it was run loose for years and stripped out plastic hole badly in tank and is too far gone to helicoil, spike mount is stripped as well. At least she runs good and cuts fast.
