Woe :(...Damage to MS200T

[Ax-Man]

I have been thinking of using that . I have used it before and it does work.

 

[Burnham]

I have thin plywood lining my toolbox shelves. Works great for soaking up oil seepage, and the oil keeps the plywood in excellent condition. Still have all the same plywood liners in all the boxes that I installed 4 years ago when I bought the truck.

That would work well .Anything to stop the dang saw from slidding to and fro across the steel boxes .

I also have plywood on the floor of the saw box, and it does work pretty well. This is the first time I've had serious damage occur in this box set up, and I've been using it for a bit over 10 years. Cosmetic skuffs and the like is basically all that's ever come up in the past. In my work, the saws ride far more than they are out cutting. I think it's just a bit of bad luck, but it's still bad .

I'll give the JB Weld a try. Thanks for the suggestion of the other product Wally, but since it's easy to get the JBW right here in town at the NAPA store, it gets the nod.

I'll take some pictures of the process and report back.

 

[Reddog]

I had repaired this one before with JB and it broke out just below the area of the repair.

That is where the Devcon putty is nice. It is Aluminum filled and is much stronger than JB for bridging gaps.

Also I have used a TIG welder to stitch areas up and not had the case gasket leak. But it is a slow process doing it one dime at a time, letting it fully cool after each dime is laid.

 

[Reddog]

Thanks for the suggestion of the other product Wally, but since it's easy to get the JBW right here in town at the NAPA store, it gets the nod.

One thing that helps make JB repairs last longer, is to take a piece of aluminum flashing and press it into the wet JB. That way the JB is protected from impacts.

 

[Burnham]

Hmmm...will contemplate that.

 

[stig]

Maybe you should use a piece of titanium, to foil any attempts by the 064 to chew on it again.

 

[No_Bivy]

thta shit will buff out.......


just kidding. bondo is some good stuff....

 

[Burnham]

Work in progress, but so far I'm liking the way it seems to be going.

Here's the damaged spot after I cleaned up the area of pitch and oil with carb cleaner and a clean cloth.



Here it is after some sanding with 120 grit, then more carb cleaner treatment.



Mix the JB Weld.



Now it just needs to cure...I'm going to leave it over the weekend before doing anything else with it.

 

[treesmith]

Looking good, B! Are you gonna sand it out and paint over it to disguise it? Might help to file the points off the dogs on the 66 to prevent a recurrence...

 

[Burnham]

I'm thinking I might detail it out some.

I hope to be able to arrange things a bit differently in the saw box to prevent such a sad occurance again. The dogs will remain undomesticated .

 

[gf beranek]

that'll work

 

[Burnham]

I think so too.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Now, sharpen that dulled dog!

 

[Burnham]

Don't think it made the least bit of difference on the dog .

 

[lumberjack]

I cut into a 660 with my 880 several summers ago. Cut into the oil tank, through the wrap handle's lower mount. It cut in until it hit a bolt in the case which fouled the chain out. I used JB weld to repair the kerf and ran the saw for another 18+months (after a sabatical on the shelf before it was repaired).

Your repair looks far better, B.

 

[treesmith]

Yeah, it ran fine til some nut-job climber flung a limb on it from what....60' up?

 

[lumberjack]

Under a carport! That didn't kill it though. AFAIK it still runs fine, the handle was breaking though so I bought another 660 to replace it.

 

[Burnham]

I cut into a 660 with my 880 several summers ago. Cut into the oil tank, through the wrap handle's lower mount. It cut in until it hit a bolt in the case which fouled the chain out. I used JB weld to repair the kerf and ran the saw for another 18+months (after a sabatical on the shelf before it was repaired).

Your repair looks far better, B.

Not near the extent of damage to work with . How the heck did that happen, Carl?

 

[treesmith]

Stuff happens when you're trying to make both cuts of a notch at the same time...

 

[lumberjack]

The heat index was in the one teens, I had been working all day solo, and I was cutting the notch in my avatar. Forgot I left the 660 in the cut when I started in from the other side with the 880 and 6' bar.

 

[Burnham]

Ouch...

 

[Al Smith]

FWIW you can land a set of crankcase halves for about 50 bucks on flea bay .Those that don't get broken up from a fall like Humpty Dumpty seem to expire from a cooked top end .

50 bucks isn't bad if it saves a 600 dollar saw .It'll take maybe an hour to change out ,hour and a half tops .

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Sand, paint & buff should be good to go Burnam,

 

[woodworkingboy]

JB weld can now say, "Approved by the US Forest Service", in their ads. If a public company, would it be insider trading to go get some stock before they run with it? Hate to get Burnham in trouble.

 

[sotc]

I'm not sure what damaged spot your talking about but I am kinda worried about all that white stuff covering the saw. Better figure that out before it becomes a real issue