Old Homelite saw been sitting for 15 years. Was givin to us then. We never used it. So I cleaned it up and figured, why not try it and see if go. So put fuel in it. 12 pulls and away it went. Revved up good and idled. This was about two or three weeks ago.
Was running out after kindling at my garage, so went to sons place and pick up a bunch of slabs. So figured I’d use the homelite saw to cut up the slabs. Needs the chain sharpened, but worked good. Very loud exhaust on it thou. Then she started to lose power while cutting and just got worse. Then quit.
Any way. Was quite a thing to use. I’ll take it to the small engine fella and see if he can fix it.
I am not fixing it !!!!!
Noel, this has been my experience with the xl12 as well. It literally hurt my eardrum, felt pain, if I didn't wear protection. Happy to see you are going to give it a chance. For quick cuts I still reach out to the xl12, but I put a new chain on it.
I have a XL, a bit newer though, it's red and has a riveted tag reading Textron Corp, Texas on the bottom of the saw. I went to get a new coil for it, there was another customer in the store for parts for something as old as mine. The clerk sarcastically said "You guys and your antique s--t, why don't you just buy new stuff". I said "We give you as much money as we can the way it is, and do you think this new crap will last as long as this has". The other customer started laughing and said "You must have been reading my mind"
Point being if the shop is full of youngsters they might laugh you out the door for bringing in something that old It's happened to me
Hope you can get it going again Noel, it looks pretty handy. Here’s the Homelite I use.
not sure how old it is, but it goes back aways! Still starts every time!
@Gordy that reminds me of when I went looking for carbons for the generator on my 1947 Cub. All I got was blank stares! One kid ask what are they? I told him and he said “nobody fixe that stuff anymore, they buy something new”! I just walked away half laughing, half disgusted. And yes I did find new brushes. That was almost 15 years ago and the generator still works fine!
How backwards it has become. One of the pillars of the industrial progress has been highly skilled people, and we pushed that to China. You can't walk in a hardware store here and buy brushes for an electric motor. No demand for that, so stores don't carry it. You go to amazon and you get it from China. We shot ourselves in the foot, simple as that. China doesn't have to nuke us, they just stop selling us stuff and we're screwed for a while. I can't even fault them, we, as a society practically beg them to produce cheap stuff for us. my ramble for today.
Eugen wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 1:52 pm
How backwards it has become. One of the pillars of the industrial progress has been highly skilled people, and we pushed that to China. You can't walk in a hardware store here and buy brushes for an electric motor. No demand for that, so stores don't carry it. You go to amazon and you get it from China. We shot ourselves in the foot, simple as that. China doesn't have to nuke us, they just stop selling us stuff and we're screwed for a while. I can't even fault them, we, as a society practically beg them to produce cheap stuff for us. my ramble for today.
I have a friend that owns a salvage yard. I stop in now and again for parts and whatnot. He's got eyes on any case ingersoll for me. We had a lengthy discussion one day about consumerism. It's sad how our society has been groomed to replace and not repair. The amount of items that come across his scale is unbelievable. When he first opened his yard he said he tried not to become a hoarder. It happened anyway. Too many nice items needed the simplest repairs and or an inexpensive part. That's too much for too many people. They would rather buy the shiny new item that's sure to fail in a year or too. What a world to live in these days. He's since let go of alot of things as the years go by. He's tried to re sell these items at less than garage sale prices but people want the new stuff. Let's keep wasting and spending more money? I've picked up some awesome stuff for next to nothing there.
Jancoe wrote: ↑Sun Dec 25, 2022 7:51 am
I have a friend that owns a salvage yard. I stop in now and again for parts and whatnot. He's got eyes on any case ingersoll for me. We had a lengthy discussion one day about consumerism. It's sad how our society has been groomed to replace and not repair. The amount of items that come across his scale is unbelievable. When he first opened his yard he said he tried not to become a hoarder. It happened anyway. Too many nice items needed the simplest repairs and or an inexpensive part. That's too much for too many people. They would rather buy the shiny new item that's sure to fail in a year or too. What a world to live in these days. He's since let go of alot of things as the years go by. He's tried to re sell these items at less than garage sale prices but people want the new stuff. Let's keep wasting and spending more money? I've picked up some awesome stuff for next to nothing there.
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That same mentality is why there are so many divorces . Most people want shine and new now all time and are not willing to put the effort into a quality piece to keep it going . my 2 cents , you may keep the change
It's happened to me 
my ramble for today. 
