Post by bamaboilermaker on Feb 19, 2024 9:53:14 GMT -5
About 3 years ago, i bought a group of 3 saws from a local guy. One of the saws was one i had never seen before. A super mini VI. Once i got the saws home, i saw this saw had alot of issues and was put on the shelf for later......
Well this weekend i was bored and started stripping it down to see how much of a basket case it was. I knew that it was missing the carb and had a broken recoil spring when i bought it (i have since purchased ~ 3 SEZ parts saws)
After opening it up, i saw that it had Phelon ignition system and that both starter pawls were broken completely off. i had a spare Wico flywheel and thankfully according to the IPL, the pawls interchange.
i pulled the flywheel and found that the points box had the name REPCO on them. Not sure if someone had replaced with aftermarket or not at some time. Contact points were a little tarnished but cleaned up ok. (inside of the saw was packed with protective oil and sawdust)
One interesting thing that i found on this saw which was not in the IPL, was that it was an auto oiler only. The provision for the manual oiler was inside the carb box, but it had a screw in the port where the manual pump would go and there is a rubber block off where the line would feed on a SEZ. I've never seen this before. The oil line from tank takes a 180 turn to a hard line behind tank.
Further tear down revealed that the lower attachment point between handle and drive case was cracked. i was able to JB weld back together and will fabricate and addition support out of sheet aluminum to reinforce the joint. Not sure if this is a common failure point on this saw, the longer handle of a VI will definitely put more stress on this mounting location.
Overall, i think this will be an interesting project for the next few weeks. There is some minor scoring on the piston, and lots of carbon build up. I have a spare piston and cylinder if needed, but hope this one will work.
The VI rubbers are intact and hopefully are still good enough. i know those will be hard to find if needed. The paint is not so good. It looks like this saw spent a lot of its retirement exposed to the elements. My goal is to have a runner, not a full restored saw at this point.
Im not good at dating Terry saws, but i think this is from 78 or 79 based on some of the casting marks.
side note: i had an aftermarket Rotary recoil spring NIB which was supposed to fit an SEZ, it did not work as the nub on the end of the spring would not engage to the center pivot. (good thing i had a parts SEZ who gladly gave up his spring)
Well this weekend i was bored and started stripping it down to see how much of a basket case it was. I knew that it was missing the carb and had a broken recoil spring when i bought it (i have since purchased ~ 3 SEZ parts saws)
After opening it up, i saw that it had Phelon ignition system and that both starter pawls were broken completely off. i had a spare Wico flywheel and thankfully according to the IPL, the pawls interchange.
i pulled the flywheel and found that the points box had the name REPCO on them. Not sure if someone had replaced with aftermarket or not at some time. Contact points were a little tarnished but cleaned up ok. (inside of the saw was packed with protective oil and sawdust)
One interesting thing that i found on this saw which was not in the IPL, was that it was an auto oiler only. The provision for the manual oiler was inside the carb box, but it had a screw in the port where the manual pump would go and there is a rubber block off where the line would feed on a SEZ. I've never seen this before. The oil line from tank takes a 180 turn to a hard line behind tank.
Further tear down revealed that the lower attachment point between handle and drive case was cracked. i was able to JB weld back together and will fabricate and addition support out of sheet aluminum to reinforce the joint. Not sure if this is a common failure point on this saw, the longer handle of a VI will definitely put more stress on this mounting location.
Overall, i think this will be an interesting project for the next few weeks. There is some minor scoring on the piston, and lots of carbon build up. I have a spare piston and cylinder if needed, but hope this one will work.
The VI rubbers are intact and hopefully are still good enough. i know those will be hard to find if needed. The paint is not so good. It looks like this saw spent a lot of its retirement exposed to the elements. My goal is to have a runner, not a full restored saw at this point.
Im not good at dating Terry saws, but i think this is from 78 or 79 based on some of the casting marks.
side note: i had an aftermarket Rotary recoil spring NIB which was supposed to fit an SEZ, it did not work as the nub on the end of the spring would not engage to the center pivot. (good thing i had a parts SEZ who gladly gave up his spring)
