A tale of the two 900 series gear drives
Jan 20, 2022 2:45:38 GMT -5
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Post by tjthechainsawmech on Jan 20, 2022 2:45:38 GMT -5
Well many of you might remember the 990G I restored probably 2 or 3 years ago. Well one thing broke my heart and that was the clear coat on the red painted parts decided to bubble and crack about 3 months later. Least I think it was 3 months because that's when I remember noticing. Well I was to upset to fix it and people didn't seem to ever notice or ask and today I finally took it down and took it apart and will be blasting the red parts and starting over again. Ordered the decals and waiting on those to show now.
And now that leads me to my other 900 series gear drive. Picked this up a couple years back from a buddy up north and never did find the time to take it apart to see how badly it was seized. Well skip to a year ago and I finally tore it apart and found the piston corroded to the cylinder. Needless to say after searching here and there for about a year I finally had come across the parts saw I posted about awhile back. Skip to today I took the saw in and parts washed it really good and have been ordering parts. Did a light ball hone on the cylinder and it cleaned up perfectly. Ordered all the seals and needed gaskets and a set of piston rings.
Well that's been my project lol I'm excited to have a big gear drive to cut some wood with. I'll start a thread on the runner saw when I get all the parts in and will probably bring back the 990's restore thread to document the repaint on the red parts.
Does anyone have a good way to clean these handles up and make them shine? Thanks!
Leon I'm gonna have to head your way with some saws so we can have a wood cutting party again haha My place is a mud pit currently!
20220119_231414 by TJ McCauley, on Flickr
20220119_231421 by TJ McCauley, on Flickr
20220119_231427 by TJ McCauley, on Flickr
And now that leads me to my other 900 series gear drive. Picked this up a couple years back from a buddy up north and never did find the time to take it apart to see how badly it was seized. Well skip to a year ago and I finally tore it apart and found the piston corroded to the cylinder. Needless to say after searching here and there for about a year I finally had come across the parts saw I posted about awhile back. Skip to today I took the saw in and parts washed it really good and have been ordering parts. Did a light ball hone on the cylinder and it cleaned up perfectly. Ordered all the seals and needed gaskets and a set of piston rings.
Well that's been my project lol I'm excited to have a big gear drive to cut some wood with. I'll start a thread on the runner saw when I get all the parts in and will probably bring back the 990's restore thread to document the repaint on the red parts.
Does anyone have a good way to clean these handles up and make them shine? Thanks!
Leon I'm gonna have to head your way with some saws so we can have a wood cutting party again haha My place is a mud pit currently!
20220119_231414 by TJ McCauley, on Flickr20220119_231421 by TJ McCauley, on Flickr20220119_231427 by TJ McCauley, on Flickr
