Chainsaw Repair

I hear ya.

It is bad dealing with someone on The Bay unless it is a known entity.

I bought a bar that had a number on it that was 3/8" X .050" X 16" X 60 DL in Oregon Power Match and small mount Husky. It was a Oregon Power Match small mount Husky .325 X .50" X 15" when I got it.

Say I might add that Northwood got back with me on that order .Evidently I was confused on exactly how business was being conducted .

They prefer to have orders submitted via "shopping  cart " type of formate which can be payed for by a telephone converstation which seems logical .Some prefer to have total e-business which I simpley will not do because I don't trust security over the internet because I'm a dinosaur over such stuff .Fact I no longer do business with Tulsa Engine over such goings on .

On line suppliers are just like gas stations, there's plenty of them .So hopefully this deal works out with Northwood because they have a lot of stuff .

Yeah it must be where the hoot owls romance the chickens or something .Just 30 seconds ago I got an e-mail and danged if they haven't shipped it already which I'm impressed with .So far so good .

I'd like to have this thing running so I can take it over to Ada Ohio and Greggs GTG .Afterwards I'll give it back to my nieghbor and can't wait to see the look of surprise over what was supposidley a dead saw .Never say die .

Fired it up and ran it about ten minutes on a cherry wind  fall today .It did okay considering the ring isn't seated yet .

The saw really wasn't that bad to work on considering I've never wrenched on a Dolmar before .The main bearings popped right out with a little heat from a heat gun .Tight but not as tight as a Stihl .

A little trip to the deep freeze for an hour with the crank and bearings  and heat the bearing pockets it slipped back together slick as snot on a door knob .

It is what it is which is a firewood cutter .At first glance it isn't spectacular but it does have a fair amount of power .Weather it's got the grunt of say an 034 or 036 or even an 038AV I rather doubt it .It is however from what little I ran it a nice little saw for a mid size .

It's got what came with it being a 20" bar with a 3/8" 7 tooth .He put a chisel on as per my suggestion but it's a guard tooth chain .In spite of that it's cuts okay .

It's probabley a toss up if running a 3/8" 7 versus a .325 8 which are basically the same as diametric pitch excepting the .325 doesn't cut as wide a kerf ,more cutters too .

You know you get around 50 cc's it can go either way ,.325 or 3/8" .

Now that being what it is it remains to be seen exactly what it might do as far as speed head to head against the 290 Stihl he just bought when he thought this one was grave yard dead .

I'll tweek it when I get a chance and test them both out .Of course then out cut them both with a souped 038 Av but that's kind of dirty pool so to speak .