Chainsaw Repair

Oh you can wind them up it's just a learned thing .You start from the outside though not the inside .It just takes practice is all .
Geeze if you bought every gadget and gizmo on the market you'd have a hundred dollar saw and a thousand dollars worth of thigamajigs to work on it .

I mean look at the amount of people who bought a case splitter and might split a set once a year .While at the same time a heat gun and a deep freeze will get the same results .

Then a year or two passes then another reason to split a set of cases and can't remember what they did with the case splitter .

The starter spring is wound inside the pocket for the spring. It is started on the outside of the pocket and is slowly packed into the pocket.

Then the starter pulley is placed onto the pocket to capture the spring.

The spring is wound tight as the cord is kept in the little slot in the side of the pulley.

As the spring gets completely tight, the cord is removed from the little slot and allowed to wind onto the pulley as the spring is allowed to unwind.

As the pulley is getting full, you cut the cord and attach the handle. The ends of the Dacron polyester cord must be heated and pushed against a piece of steel to make a flat solid end on the cord or it will fuzz up into a mess.

Use a cord big enough to where it will not pull through itself on the pulley.

No tools are needed except a match and knife to cut the cord.

Have one of the coil spring tools from flea bay. the best thing I ever bought,after you use it the first time youl wonder why you did it any other way.

Have one of the coil spring tools from flea bay.

Are you the guy thats does the wooden tables in Hawaii?    If so start a thread and post up your work.   Beautiful stuff.

When I install a new spring I save the wire or retainer that comes on new one.  Drive a 6 or 8 penny nail in bench top deep enough where the head keeps spring from coming off nail.  I cut down a bad 272 Husky starter pulley a little smaller than wound spring.  Hook outer end on nail, hook inner in starter pulley and wind.  When wound drop saved retainer over spring release slowly.  I've used this method 8-10 times works good for me.
Shep