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Post by w30bob on Feb 23, 2022 21:36:48 GMT -5
Howdy Boys, Well......although I loved that light metallic blue of my E-Z........but I got a new toy today and now have a new favorite Homey color! The postman dropped off a Buz I picked up on eBay for $85 a week or two ago, and I kind of forgot about it. It was getting dark when I pulled it out of the box, so didn't have time to give it a formal cleaning, but wiped it down quickly and was surprised at the amount of paint left on it.....AND THE COLOR! Wow.....a seafoam green chainsaw!! Who knew? Must have been made for felling pineapple trees in Hawaii and Florida! Talk about Wife Acceptance Factor (WAF)! But what a pretty color! I'm guessing the earlier Buz saws were this aqua color and the later ones were the red ones........but if I'm wrong please school me! She's all there, has the original bar and chain (what big links!), and doesn't appear to have been used to death. She needs a new spark plug wire, which I have on the way, and tomorrow if it doesn't rain all day I'll give her a proper cleaning. So........are there any other weird colored Homelites I need to know about? Maybe a nice lilac purple.......or passion pink? Gotta love it!! ;0) bob   |
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Post by ronaldt on Feb 24, 2022 0:08:08 GMT -5
As far as I know, the buzz was the only all green Homelite saw ever produced. I've never seen one in nice condition. Nice score!
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Post by w30bob on Feb 24, 2022 21:34:31 GMT -5
Well.........this is kinda weird. Some days things just really go your way, and others not so much. Well today started out pretty good. I stopped by our local Ollie's store, which for those who aren't familiar, is a liquidation type store. They get stuff in from businesses closing or from companies that just want to stop selling something.....and Ollie's buys the excess for a song and resells it cheap. I swing by there every now and then because their inventory always changes and you never know what you'll find. The store I go to has an "automotive" section, and they always have an odd array of different spray paints. I occasionally find some IH/Farmall Red for my tractors and implements, so I always check that section of the store. Today staring me right in the face when I got there was one single can of a very odd color. A seafoam green of sorts. I immediately grabbed and it's a Dupli-Color for an old Honda car color called 1081 Honda Hampstead Green Metallic. I didn't have any part of my Buz chainsaw with me, but I'd bet dollars to donuts it was the right color. So for $2 I bought it and when I got home I held it up against the saw. Darn......maybe just a tad too green. But wait......the color on the cap rarely matches what comes out the nozzle.......and I remembered the color on old Hondas.....and it wasn't that green. So I shot a test card and let it dry. I just came in from the barn and held the card up to the saw. It's a PERFECT match! Even the amount of metallic is spot on! Unbelievable, right? I don't plan to paint my saw, but I now know the paint that I'd need if I ever decide to restore another one. Gonna run out and play the lottery now........so you guys have a good night....and wish me luck!! If I win a few million I'll buy each of you the saw of your dreams!
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bob
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Post by sparky on Feb 25, 2022 20:45:39 GMT -5
The tank looks really mint!
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Post by w30bob on Feb 27, 2022 11:25:38 GMT -5
Hey Sparky,
Definitely not mint, but better than a lot I've seen. The interesting thing with the tank is that it's made of steel, but plated with something that paint obviously doesn't like sticking to. I would have thought they knew how to paint steel back then, maybe not aluminum.....but steel for sure. I'm wrong again. I'm still fascinated by the fact that waterslide decals from back in the day are still stuck on, while modern day waterslide decals need to be clear coated (if using inkjet paper) and are just not as durable. I've got old Farmalls from the 30's with decals still intact. I need to figure out what they knew that we forgot. Have a good one!
regards,
bob
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Post by sparky on Feb 27, 2022 12:23:50 GMT -5
Some fuel tanks were galvanized and paint doesn't like to stick to it.
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Post by w30bob on Feb 27, 2022 18:43:48 GMT -5
As far as I know, the buzz was the only all green Homelite saw ever produced. I've never seen one in nice condition. Nice score! Hi Ron, I was thinking what you were thinking.........but I now think maybe there were 3 all green Homelites.....the Buz, the 500 and the Zip. Check it out! With the Zip it might be the lighting and the camera used, but I futzed with the picture corrections, and in all 3 pics of it, with everything else in the picture the correct colors........it's green! And I've never seen a green 500.....but they usually wouldn't pay the extra cost for the colored ink in ads if it wasn't what the saw looked like. Anybody ever seen a green 500 or Zip??? regards, bob   |
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Post by ronaldt on Feb 27, 2022 20:34:57 GMT -5
The 500 in the ad does look green but I doubt if they ever produced them. I've seen a lot of 500's and the early ones are blue and later ones are red. The zip looks blue to me. I've also seen a LOT of zips and they are always blue. I'm not saying these saws couldn't exist in green but I doubt it.
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Post by w30bob on Feb 27, 2022 21:03:58 GMT -5
The 500 in the ad does look green but I doubt if they ever produced them. I've seen a lot of 500's and the early ones are blue and later ones are red. The zip looks blue to me. I've also seen a LOT of zips and they are always blue. I'm not saying these saws couldn't exist in green but I doubt it. Hi Ron, How about now..........am I makin' you a believer? ;0) bob   |
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Post by ronaldt on Feb 27, 2022 21:30:40 GMT -5
The 500 in the ad does look green but I doubt if they ever produced them. I've seen a lot of 500's and the early ones are blue and later ones are red. The zip looks blue to me. I've also seen a LOT of zips and they are always blue. I'm not saying these saws couldn't exist in green but I doubt it. Hi Ron, How about now..........am I makin' you a believer? ;0) bob View AttachmentView AttachmentWell Bob, it's hard to argue with that picture! Have you taken anything apart on the greenish saw? Maybe remove the spark plug cover or recoil and look at the color underneath and compare to the outside. I'm very curious now! |
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Post by stillsawing on Feb 28, 2022 8:34:17 GMT -5
Homelite did have some paints that faded past its original hue. As mentioned, remove a recoil housing, the underside should reveal the true color. My 1130 is a lovely shade of pink.
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Post by tjthechainsawmech on Mar 2, 2022 23:28:20 GMT -5
Man if the Zip came in that green color I wanna find one and restore it. That's rare. The buzz saw I picked up is red and now I want a green one.
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Post by w30bob on Mar 5, 2022 22:27:07 GMT -5
The mystery of the green Zip has now been solved! The saw arrived the other day............and I tore the box open like an anxious kid on Christmas morning....only to find a very BLUE Zip in the box! Yeah, it was just the camera the pics were taken with making things look green. I was bummed. But I sorta got tipped off right before the auction ended. I was looking on eBay at things that I knew were made in baby blue to see if any looked green in their listings.......and sure enough.....with like 10 minutes before the Zip auction ended I found one. Look green as the Zip, yet I knew it was blue. So I figured the same thing was going on with the Zip. But I wasn't going to chance it, so I bid on it and won. But alas, fellow chainsaw lovers.........if there was ever a green Buz made by Homey.......I don't own it. Live and learn, eh? Someday when the chainsaw restoration hobby gets like the car restoration hobby someone may make a 'what if' green Zip. You never know.
regards,
bob
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