Sooner or later, once you start using saws, you turn your hand to fixing them.
Be it simple R&M on your own one saw, working on several of your own saws, fixing a neighbours- friends- relations saw, or buying up wrecks and parts saws to rebuild.
It takes some basic tooling, some of it kind of brand specific and must haves like T27 drivers and 4mm Hex drivers, but you can do a whole lot with basic hand tools before you go spending on big dollar items like Tachometers, pressure and vacuum testers, compression gauges designed for small engines.
So, what are some of the most important to have?
For a basic took kit, for a one or three saw owner maybe basic repairs and not full blown rebuilds?
For me, one tool I cannot be without and I have been known to buy in boxes of 20- is a simple cheap 75 X 3mm flat blade screwdriver. They can do a whole lot of things when it comes to saws. They make a nice tuning screwdriver, beautiful for opening carb covers, push off fuel and impulse lines, detach choke levers- throttle linkages- and electrical connections. At a pinch they will pry out small oil seals- but not ideal for that.
One of the most valuable tricks in their arsenal is, they are brilliant for digging years of accumulated crap out of the heads of 4mm and T27 cap head bolts BEFORE you jam a driver in there and round the head out.
Be it simple R&M on your own one saw, working on several of your own saws, fixing a neighbours- friends- relations saw, or buying up wrecks and parts saws to rebuild.
It takes some basic tooling, some of it kind of brand specific and must haves like T27 drivers and 4mm Hex drivers, but you can do a whole lot with basic hand tools before you go spending on big dollar items like Tachometers, pressure and vacuum testers, compression gauges designed for small engines.
So, what are some of the most important to have?
For a basic took kit, for a one or three saw owner maybe basic repairs and not full blown rebuilds?
For me, one tool I cannot be without and I have been known to buy in boxes of 20- is a simple cheap 75 X 3mm flat blade screwdriver. They can do a whole lot of things when it comes to saws. They make a nice tuning screwdriver, beautiful for opening carb covers, push off fuel and impulse lines, detach choke levers- throttle linkages- and electrical connections. At a pinch they will pry out small oil seals- but not ideal for that.
One of the most valuable tricks in their arsenal is, they are brilliant for digging years of accumulated crap out of the heads of 4mm and T27 cap head bolts BEFORE you jam a driver in there and round the head out.
