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Title: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: 3000 FPS on November 28, 2014, 06:04:11 pm

Welded this handle back together.   Have another one to do also that was broken almost in the same exact spot.

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: 660magnum on November 28, 2014, 06:05:35 pm

+1 give that man a like

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: 3000 FPS on November 28, 2014, 07:34:36 pm

Thanks Jim.

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: rms61moparman on November 30, 2014, 12:01:53 am

If you let knowledge of that skill get spread around, you will be a very popular guy.
That was a weak spot on those handles. I've never broken one but have seen a pickup load that were.


Mike

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: 3000 FPS on November 30, 2014, 12:18:39 am

I hear ya Mike.   I have already started to screen what welding jobs I take on.

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: Cut4fun . on December 01, 2014, 10:13:25 am

Quote from: 3000 FPS on November 30, 2014, 12:18:39 am

  I have already started to screen what welding jobs I take on.

3400 welding handles   :o 8)

If I ever have to split my 415 475 445 I was going to call on ya. To fix my redneck fixes and to do it right with your sweet welding. 

P.S. I lost your # with carrier and phone change. So would PM first to hook back up.  But hopefully I will never have to split.

Kevin

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: 3000 FPS on December 12, 2014, 10:59:17 pm

So I finished welding up the 2nd broken handle and I am comparing it to the other one I did before and it looks different.    I did not have the other side of the handle sent to me so I fitted the 2 broken pieces together I thought pretty straight.   Man was I wrong.   I took one of my saws apart and tried to fit the handle on there and neither one was even close.   So that means I have to break apart the weld or try anyways and re-weld them again.   I am not happy about this and will never make this mistake again.  You might say steam is coming out my ears.

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: 660magnum on December 12, 2014, 11:06:12 pm

Been there and done that on machinery pieces in the past.

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: 3000 FPS on January 10, 2015, 07:28:17 pm

Well I got off my butt today and fixed those handles I screwed up.
They were really crooked.   I put them on a Poulan 4000 I have and marked them and cut them in half with a hack saw and then got them all straightened out and welded them while on the saw.
So both handles are now done and I can ship them back.

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: aclarke on January 10, 2015, 07:57:52 pm

Nicely done!

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: farmboy on January 11, 2015, 09:40:08 pm

Quote from: aclarke on January 10, 2015, 07:57:52 pm

Nicely done!

AMEN!!!!!!!!!
Shep

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: 3000 FPS on January 11, 2015, 10:02:00 pm

I learned a few things when doing these handles and in the end I was happy to get them done for a fellow chainsaw collector such as myself.   Thanks.

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: Cut4fun . on January 11, 2015, 11:53:12 pm

Didnt even think about that. Is that those 2 same sides I seen earlier?

 Nice work and catch, I hope before sending back.

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: 3000 FPS on January 12, 2015, 12:37:59 pm

Same side of the handle but two different pieces.   

Title: Re: Poulan 3400 handle broke.
Post by: countryhog on January 12, 2015, 02:23:43 pm

you continue to produce great work. I stand amazed