Danarm 1-71-SS

[Bob Hedgecutter]

Picked this up a couple of weeks back, just so happened my better half was in the right part of the Country to collect and return to a new forever home.
Danarm- so British, made in Stroud Gloucestershire. 71cc = 2"X 1 3/8". From around 1973/74 (1974 on the original instruction book that came with).
Kind of like something out of the Jetsons- a colour scheme and design perhaps typical of the time.
100% complete, VERY clean and with original 20 inch hard nosed bars that have their own tail mount- but run a standard (for here) 72DL 3/8 0.058 chain.
Came with instruction book, full original tool kit, guarantee card and IPL- plus a lot of hand filing gear.



Even better, it came with a twin- both running the same bars and chains, both still run beautifully.

 

[oilsmoke]

That's a brand I had never heard of or crossed paths with over the years until a few years ago. A buddy who was a bit of an auction buff and fleamarket seller was cleaning out his garage and gave me what I had first thought to be an old Homelite or Sears saw in a box.
Its a small top handle model with a 12" bar, the bar, and recoil cover have the Danarm name, but its painted red, but more orange/red then the Homelite red. I had pretty much assumed it were a rebadged Homelite or a store brand from a different part of the country I had never heard of. It even came with a red vinyl Danarm scripted vinyl scabbard for the bar and chain. Its in a box upstairs in the garage somewhere, I think I put it with a bunch of Homelite parts saws but with the intention of one day putting it back together just because is looked fairly clean overall.

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

Frontier made the small top handle saws for Danarm out of Canada- but they were usually blue cased.
They made those for just about everyone, Lil Jon, Husky 35, Dolmar, Pioneer, Skil, Sears etc. all the same design and familiar plastic (usually black) air box and carb cover.
What you have could be a Danarm specific model though, hard to say without photos.

 

[oilsmoke]

I'd have to go digging upstairs in the garage to find it, but from what I remember it was all die cast aluminum. I think the trigger was even metal.
It was smaller than a Mini Mac or similar, it had no brake, a manual oiler, a top handle above the rear of the saw. The back end of the saw was sort of odd shaped, it looked chopped off in a way.
The guy who gave it to me was from Canada, he moved here in the late 70's from Windsor, Ontario. He traveled a lot for work, there's no telling where he got it from. I do remember it being super clean and him saying it leaked fuel so he took it apart but never put it back together. I also seem to to think it had an aftermarket bar on it that had been made to fit, and the original bar was in a separate scabbard in the box. Not sure why.
I also remember both the oil and fuel caps were on the front of the saw on an angle and the spark plug went into the left side 90 degrees to the cylinder.
The color was sort of a tomato red, with a Danarm logo on the recoil. One thing that I do remember is that the clutch had fins on it under the right side cover. It wasn't a repaint that I could tell, if it was, they completely tore the thing apart and stripped it to change the color. He also was not the type to paint anything.
It closely resembled the Sears 2.4 12" saws they sold here in the early 70's but with a top handle and both filler caps up front.
If I get around to it I'll dig it out and see if I can get it put back together, but I suppose I'd have to hunt down some carb parts first. I'm sure the fuel diaphragm will be petrified by now.
One of the reasons I save it was that it was the smallest saw I had ever seen then. probably 25% smaller than a Mini Mac.

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

There was a version of the Frontier saw made for Dolmar that was an orangey red.
Photos would determine for sure.
The Frontier saws had a bolt on tank cover front of the case- covered both oil and gas tanks, sealed by a gasket and both tanks filled from the front top of the case.
The gaskets often failed and leaked gas.

 

[oilsmoke]

I'd have to really go digging to find it up there but both fill caps were on an angle on the front of the saw, ahead of the loop handle.
I seem to recall him saying he couldn't figure out how to fix something or some part he couldn't find for it so he gave up and boxed it all for years, then that box got handed off to me.