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The Beaver chainsaw, Cox's most interesting product
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Re: The Beaver chainsaw, Cox's most interesting product
Does this saw require a 32:1 mix? I know newer saws are much less but I would imagine the older engines required a bit more.
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Ken Cook wrote: Does this saw require a 32:1 mix? I know newer saws are much less but I would imagine the older engines required a bit more.
16 to 1 Ken of gas to 30 wt. But we run 40 to one in our Stihl chainsaws using Stihl's own oil. Bought with a new chain saw it increases your warrentee by one year.
But, I'm in trouble with this tank. The fuel line is split and pulled out of it's grommet. Rest and the filter is still in the tank.
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Bob, you did an amazing job of clean-up on that Cox chainsaw. It sort of reminds me of my K&B .35 Stallion clean-up that I did a couple years ago, rusty inside. Your saw may have spent a spell outdoors maybe sitting outside a shed? For it to get that much moisture inside to rust like that tells me that it lived its life stored in a damp environment.
Your restoration work helps hide its hideous past. If you complete it to fully running status will be a testimony of geniousness.
Your restoration work helps hide its hideous past. If you complete it to fully running status will be a testimony of geniousness.
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rsv1cox wrote:Thanks for that Jacob. It verifies that it was factory not some customer mod. The piece #4 is one unit, the spot welds have come apart. I'm not sure how to fix that.
Bob
PS............You gotta find one. I need some company in my Cox chainsaw miseries.
You might need to take it to a machine shop (auto shop, performance motorcycle shop...) and see if someone can weld it back together.
I'm keeping my eyes peeled. Want to trade one for a Lawn Boy mower?
Re: The Beaver chainsaw, Cox's most interesting product
Want to trade one for a Lawn Boy mower?
I have had that in the back of my mind for a couple of weeks now Jacob. Only you get to keep the mower. I have saved one of the better packing boxes. When I get everything sorted out you get my "partzer." You will need points and condenser and a carburator. Probably bar and chain too, so start looking. You unlike me, rotate in those small engine circles so you should have better luck finding them than I have. I will let you know. No compensation necessary other than a years free subscription to the Cox Engine Forum.
So.....today. Rain - got some stuff done. Sandblasted the muffler parts. Some heat resistant engine paint will finish the job. I also sandblasted the interior of the fuel tank to get some of the junk out of there.
I think I have a fix for the broken fuel line. Medium silicone tubing with a "clunk" filter direct to the carburator, no need for a junction. A little RTV or gasket material where it enters the tank ought to prevent leakage. Tubing is fixed to the carburator for illustration only. That end goes in the tank with the clunk. I must have one around here someplace. The present end piece is not a filter, just an opened ended device.
I have had that in the back of my mind for a couple of weeks now Jacob. Only you get to keep the mower. I have saved one of the better packing boxes. When I get everything sorted out you get my "partzer." You will need points and condenser and a carburator. Probably bar and chain too, so start looking. You unlike me, rotate in those small engine circles so you should have better luck finding them than I have. I will let you know. No compensation necessary other than a years free subscription to the Cox Engine Forum.
So.....today. Rain - got some stuff done. Sandblasted the muffler parts. Some heat resistant engine paint will finish the job. I also sandblasted the interior of the fuel tank to get some of the junk out of there.
I think I have a fix for the broken fuel line. Medium silicone tubing with a "clunk" filter direct to the carburator, no need for a junction. A little RTV or gasket material where it enters the tank ought to prevent leakage. Tubing is fixed to the carburator for illustration only. That end goes in the tank with the clunk. I must have one around here someplace. The present end piece is not a filter, just an opened ended device.
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Re: The Beaver chainsaw, Cox's most interesting product
Bob, the silicone tubing is no good for gasoline. It will swell up and fall off.
You need Tygon, Neoprene, or Viton.
Tygon is available from Du-Bro or any small engine shop. Viton is available from McMaster-Carr. More expensive than Tygon, but more flexible and doesn't harden up over time.
You need Tygon, Neoprene, or Viton.
Tygon is available from Du-Bro or any small engine shop. Viton is available from McMaster-Carr. More expensive than Tygon, but more flexible and doesn't harden up over time.
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Re: The Beaver chainsaw, Cox's most interesting product
rsv1cox wrote:Want to trade one for a Lawn Boy mower?
I have had that in the back of my mind for a couple of weeks now Jacob. Only you get to keep the mower. I have saved one of the better packing boxes. When I get everything sorted out you get my "partzer." You will need points and condenser and a carburator. Probably bar and chain too, so start looking. You unlike me, rotate in those small engine circles so you should have better luck finding them than I have. I will let you know. No compensation necessary other than a years free subscription to the Cox Engine Forum.
I'm always up for another project.
I have maybe 5-6 gas chainsaws in the shed, all need attention since they've been sitting for years. Including a pair of 70s era small McCulloch Eager Beaver chainsaws. One of those two that was lent out to a cousin years ago that came back with a cross-threaded spark plug hole. I had to chase the threads, among other things.
I suppose you could call this a "gas powered" chainsaw as well :
Damn, that grass looks long in those pictures. Thanks to near endless rain for a couple of weeks this summer. For awhile there everything was growing fast, and it was always too wet to cut. Then we had storms that took down a few branches on top of it, hence the chainsaw.
Re: The Beaver chainsaw, Cox's most interesting product
duaneh wrote:Bob, the silicone tubing is no good for gasoline. It will swell up and fall off.
You need Tygon, Neoprene, or Viton.
Tygon is available from Du-Bro or any small engine shop. Viton is available from McMaster-Carr. More expensive than Tygon, but more flexible and doesn't harden up over time.
Thanks for that Duane, I had no idea. Perhaps that is why Cox used a different tubing inside the tank where exposure would be constant. I'm glad that you let me know before I cut up that tubing. I'm careful of the stuff. It seems I'm always running out of it.
Bob
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roddie wrote:Hi Robert, Amazon stocks 1/8" ID Viton tubing.. and a small sintered-Bronze "Clunk" pick up that should work for servicing your saw's fuel tank.
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Thanks roddie. Done, ordered the tubing, I have the clunk.
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Re: The Beaver chainsaw, Cox's most interesting product
Pretty dead on the CEF today so I'll add.................
More Cox Chainsaw stuff:
I want to save this sproket drive clutch as it's the only one I have out of seven configured this way. I have no idea if it pre or post dates the rest but I would guess it predates as it would be much more expensive to manufacture than the pressed steel clutch found on the others. It's not the only major difference, the handle attaches to the body on pegs not hardware as the others.
So, to save the broken/split cogged clutch, I cleaned it up on the wire wheel and turned the sproket on the housing until I found the sweet spot where it settled into the indentations and witness marked it.
and mixed up some JB Weld (I always over mix) and spread it around the perimeter of the sproket and pressed it on.
I'm hoping that it will hold. But this part is under a lot of stress. It's the clutch between the engine and the bar/chain. At idle it slips, but give it gas and the three ears of the clutch expand (centrifugal force) contacting the housing driving the chain. The ears being constrained by a spring wrapped around the outside of the clutch. Much more involved than the pressed steel clutch.
Pressed steel clutch.
The brass pin was a PO mod. He evidently lost the Woodruff key (picture) seen on the right above in the "good" clutch. I snapped the PO's clutch while drilling out the retaining screw and lifting it with the three legged gear puller.
Lot's of fun these chainsaws.
More Cox Chainsaw stuff:
I want to save this sproket drive clutch as it's the only one I have out of seven configured this way. I have no idea if it pre or post dates the rest but I would guess it predates as it would be much more expensive to manufacture than the pressed steel clutch found on the others. It's not the only major difference, the handle attaches to the body on pegs not hardware as the others.
So, to save the broken/split cogged clutch, I cleaned it up on the wire wheel and turned the sproket on the housing until I found the sweet spot where it settled into the indentations and witness marked it.
and mixed up some JB Weld (I always over mix) and spread it around the perimeter of the sproket and pressed it on.
I'm hoping that it will hold. But this part is under a lot of stress. It's the clutch between the engine and the bar/chain. At idle it slips, but give it gas and the three ears of the clutch expand (centrifugal force) contacting the housing driving the chain. The ears being constrained by a spring wrapped around the outside of the clutch. Much more involved than the pressed steel clutch.
Pressed steel clutch.
The brass pin was a PO mod. He evidently lost the Woodruff key (picture) seen on the right above in the "good" clutch. I snapped the PO's clutch while drilling out the retaining screw and lifting it with the three legged gear puller.
Lot's of fun these chainsaws.
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Re: The Beaver chainsaw, Cox's most interesting product
Little two stroke engines are fun to tinker with….Amazing amount of power for their size…. I finally had to give up on my cheapie WM weed eater….. I kept fixing this and that it until it just absolutely lost power due to lack of compression ….
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rdw777 wrote:Little two stroke engines are fun to tinker with….Amazing amount of power for their size…. I finally had to give up on my cheapie WM weed eater….. I kept fixing this and that it until it just absolutely lost power due to lack of compression ….
I finally had to give up on my cheapie WM weed eater.
Me too. Switched to an electric spool fed B&D and never looked back. I love the thing. No more winding line and it feeds automatically and perfectly.
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duaneh wrote:Bob, the silicone tubing is no good for gasoline. It will swell up and fall off.
You need Tygon, Neoprene, or Viton.
Tygon is available from Du-Bro or any small engine shop. Viton is available from McMaster-Carr. More expensive than Tygon, but more flexible and doesn't harden up over time.
I ordered it from Amazon per roddies link. Not cheap, $15.38 per foot shipped. Dubro has it in 3' rolls for much less but it's 5/32" ID too big for my purposes.
Below link has a video.
https://www.amazon.com/Du-Bro-554-I-D-Tygon-Tubing/dp/B0006O8TW6/ref=pe_386300_440135490_sr_d_sccl_2/131-2746572-5432326/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B0006O8TW6&pd_rd_w=HelI0&content-id=amzn1.sym.3860b7b7-a905-4d2a-a55a-a11512bfd866&pf_rd_p=3860b7b7-a905-4d2a-a55a-a11512bfd866&pf_rd_r=EPX40R6B2A1G49FRP9KC&pd_rd_wg=pFIai&pd_rd_r=b9c9037a-bca7-465e-8239-81e528a59f21&ref_=sr&th=1
Roberts reeds arrive yesterday. Perfect fit.
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I’m glad the reeds fit Bob….. Your photos and scale were perfect for trying to replicate…. Between that and the new tubing will be interested to see if it will run for you ….
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Re: The Beaver chainsaw, Cox's most interesting product
I think I've got a service manual for this somewhere. Not sure if its already floating around somewhere, but if not and there's interest I can try to dig it out.
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EXModelEngines wrote:I think I've got a service manual for this somewhere. Not sure if its already floating around somewhere, but if not and there's interest I can try to dig it out.
Thanks Matt, I have the owners manual, looks like this:
but not the service manual. If you could find it and post scans here it might help me solve some problems and answer some questions.
Bob
Poking around ebay last week this popped up. Arrives today.
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Re: The Beaver chainsaw, Cox's most interesting product
Well, it arrived this afternoon, clean and with a complete carburator. Complete except for one very little detail............
What do you do.............scream and shout or fix it. I do both! I like the other fellows idea, a brass tube threaded. It works. Years ago I bought a set of taps and dies in 2/56 and 3/48 anticipating this. But I think a common 4/40 might be a better choice. A brass tube on a wooden dowel threaded with a little blue loctite or JB Weld.
The rest of the engine is perfect. Definately a bicycle engine, extremely clean. A chainsaw engine would be beat to death.
What do you do.............scream and shout or fix it. I do both! I like the other fellows idea, a brass tube threaded. It works. Years ago I bought a set of taps and dies in 2/56 and 3/48 anticipating this. But I think a common 4/40 might be a better choice. A brass tube on a wooden dowel threaded with a little blue loctite or JB Weld.
The rest of the engine is perfect. Definately a bicycle engine, extremely clean. A chainsaw engine would be beat to death.
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