What's on your bench now?

Port? Nah… t at this time. I just pulled the muffler to sandblast/paint it so I will remove the screen and open her up some though

 

Well I’ll be darned. It runs pretty good! Cleaned the carburetor, replaced the fuel line and primer bulb. Pulled the muffler (opened it up a little too) sandblasted and painted that. Sharpened the chain, cleaned the clutch drum and greased the bearing. The easy start is a little weird but seems to work well.

 

Next up in the free saw salvage series is the 550XP. Right off the rip it’s going to need a carb kit. The diaphragm was pretty stiff (probably the reason it wasn’t pulling fuel)

 

The 61/272 needed some odds and ends. They said that you can’t put a newer 268/272 top cover on an older 61/266 set of cases. Well, technically you can’t but you can drill and tap an M5 x 0.8 hole on the left side of the case, and just use 2 screws to hold it down. It’ll work

I haven’t decided what I want to do with this hodge podge of a saw yet. I just put a 16” bar on it with an 8 tooth sprocket. I’m thinking about buying a 10 tooth and leaving the short bar on it indefinitely. Keep it as a high revving 72cc play saw, set up for bucking small wood stupid fast.

 

Newly acquired 395XP. Just going through it, cleaning, and doing the usual stuff that we do when we get a used saw. The original machining marks are still on both the intake and exhaust side of the piston, so I think this’ll need minimal work before I put it to work. So far the only thing I found that I need to buy is a fuel line.

 

Between the 2 of us, the orange saws are stacking up. Lol

 

Nonsense! I just got that MS250 running the other week… I’m balanced

 

Other than all the missing screws, here’s the first WTF thing I found. The muffler was rattling loose for so long that it boogered up the mating surface on the cylinder! I’ll have to file that flat again. Maybe I should just pull the cylinder at this point.

Yeah… it’s at that level now.

This is exactly why I tore it down first before making a single cut with it. When you see missing hardware and loose parts, that’s a huge red flag. It might’ve been running, but it wasn’t ready to run.

 

Even if the exhaust flange wasn’t damaged, I’d pull the cylinder and re-ring it at a minimum. I scored a 394XP a few weeks back in a tad better shape than your haul. Ordered new rings, base gasket, carb kit, muffler, and clutch bearing. It needs AV’s as well, but still on the fence if I want to shine it all the way up or not.

 

That’s where I’m at with things now. I’ll be going down the same road.

 

I have a couple other colors as well. A white, 2 green, yellow and red. lol

 

SOP for a good builder. Here's my freshly done 94, and matching muffin.

 

I got the exhaust flange milled flat again. I ended up taking about 0.030” off, and left a small amount of pitting where it didn’t matter. At least now I’m confident that a muffler will seal against that surface. I couldn’t get a good picture of the inside of the cylinder but it looks great in there. Other than the cleaning of all the parts I took off, this 395XP project will be on hold until after the first of the year. More to come though…