What's on your bench now?

I have several saws I run that never had a chain brake. That's not a deterrence. Lol. Its heavy. Thats the main reason it will be a decoration. Plus, it's not something I'd normally collect. I like to run my collection periodically.

 

That is an oldie should look nice all cleaned up

 

I'll post pics when it's ready for display.

 

A clamshell saw that's designed with common sense. 15-20 minutes and its completely apart. Same with the Echo CS400.

 

Not on the workbench yet but coming soon. I was very generously gifted these saws yesterday by FHC’s own jo191145 . They had a few years of grime on them from sitting around, but a quick blast with super clean and water made a world of difference. Thanks again Joe.

 

Looking much better already.Good luck and enjoy.

 

Fantastic!

 

Awesome show of generosity Joe.
Some fine additions to the fleet Eric. I’m sure you’ll give them the love they deserve.

 

I should've taken pictures earlier this morning but I was in a rush. I pulled the muffler on that 372 and the piston looked almost new on the exhaust side, and it was the type with 2 rings, most likely original OEM. Then I pulled the carb because I had to clean that anyway, and had a look at the intake side. Most of the machining marks were still there as well. This thing's going to be a runner pretty much as-is. Strong compression and plenty of spark. Just going to do a little more cleaning, make sure the carb is good inside, take care of the case bolt/bar oil seepage issue and fire it up. I almost feel like I hit the lottery LOL

 

Amazing considering the condition I found it in on a pawnshop shelf. It looked like it had already cut half of the Pacific Northwest by itself. And as I said the H screw was turned way out and had been run like that for some time. When I pulled the plug at home you couldn’t even see the electrode. It was one big gooey black mess. I was surprised it had run at all.
I should ask, what’s this super clean stuff you speak of? It sure does a nice job. Is that something you could bath an entire saw in from time to time?

 

This. I use to clean saws as well. I buy it at wally world. I use an air powered siphon wand to spray it from a 5 gallon bucket mixed with hot water.

 

One thing I noticed about that carb was that the limiter caps were gone from the adjuster screws. Whoever owned it before you must've removed them and adjusted the high screw too far out of whack. Out too far in this case is better than in too far though.

Super clean is awesome stuff. I mix it with water in a bucket and soak certain parts overnight sometimes (it'll turn the color of cylinders darker if you leave them in too long) If you're just doing a quick cleaning on a complete saw it cuts right through the oily sawdust and caked on grime. Still gotta scrub a bit with a rag/old toothbrush/old sponge on the really bad areas, but it takes a lot of the labor out of the job.

 

Two very nice saws!

 

You’re bringing back memories now hahaha. As I recall the limiter caps were unattached from the carb and floating on the adjustment screws. At least one was,,,,,, I removed one that I can remember. Figured it’s not supposed to be floating and the vibration may have turned out the screw on the prior owner. Or someone tried to remove them and failed halfway. I don’t even remember how I got one or two off of there. Lyme and brain fog,,,,pretty hazy memory I have.

 

So I was playing with this idea, I wanted to do a few mods just to see if it could. be done. The first one I removed the rail, radiuses the trigger guard, and added a fake screw.

The second one I wanted a flared magwell but did not want to add length or girth to the grip, overall gun. So I made a form, heated the frame and pressed it in. I also trimmed the beavertail and trigger guard. I am thinking about molding in a light without increasing the size, might be a challenge I have found a light already.
This is the original frame

this was my flaring form

this is reassembled

 

I looked for a thread on those caps. Fairly certain I would have seemed help here but didn’t find anything. I did find this tho. Some repairs I made to it. Check that blue wire while it’s apart and the clutch. I think I replaced the entire clutch,,,,,,,,but but but. I know I had a clutch in my past that was totally ugly with wear inside. Must be that one. Check it anyway.

372xp smoking

 

Thanks for linking that thread. Lots of good nuggets of info in there (even the timing advance tip) I actually have a brand new aftermarket 372XP clutch on a shelf if it needs one. Hopefully the drum is good too but if not, I can't complain about spending a little bit of coin getting a free pro saw running again

 

clutch and drum should be almost new

 

Got the free 372XP fired up and tuned this morning. I didn’t spend too much time cleaning it up yet but I’ll get to it eventually. Cleaned the carburetor, took the clutch drum off and got that and the bearing cleaned/greased. I had a brand new Archer 8 tooth sprocket on hand so I put that on. Dumped the old fuel, got fresh mix and bar oil in it. It was missing a case bolt in the front so I replaced that. Ran it for a few minutes and ended up turning down the oiler a bit. Seems to run flawless though

 

Great saws. I love mine. I need to get my ported 350 going again because the 372 wears me out when using as a full time saw.