hello people and welcome to episode 3 of the mcculloch 152 restoration yes everything in
front of me is looking very very shiny if you haven't seen this series from the
beginning you can go back and watch episode one and two and enjoy all of that excitement
from the beginning but if not welcome welcome to our channel we are here restoring a mcculloch 152
and yes everything's looking very very shiny in front of me but what did it look like before well
we've got a donor saw which is quite handy anyone doing a restoration or who loves a donor vehicle
that's what it looked like before but now it's much shinier i've spent hours up on hours
upon hours of my precious time that's not that precious but you know getting all of this thing
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so if you want to see how i got these so shiny not gonna lie it's old paint old
lead paint possibly from the 1960s because that's when this saw was originally made
it didn't want to come off i used the old um you know what you call a paint stripper
spray-on paint stripper which i thought yeah it's going to bubble up beautifully
but did it not so well so it took a little bit more work and a lot more elbow grease to get it
to the condition it's in now check out this little clip and see the process i took which
is compressed into a few seconds and i can assure you it took a lot longer than that
so that was the easy bit now for the harder bit which is the restoration you know making all
the bits that aren't very good much much better for instance this back handle here is very very
rough it's corroded it's where it's been sat on the fourier workshop floor for many years
and the aluminium has been eaten away well we want to make that rough bit smooth how are we going to
do it well we're going to use some body filler is that the right thing to use probably not i could
probably use some liquid metal or i could do some aluminium welding or whatever it is at the top of
it to try and get that smooth again but no we're gonna use filler because i've got some right so
it's disclaimer time i'm about to do something i've never done before i have no idea what i'm
doing so please put in the comments of how many mistakes i've made i've watched a few little
videos of how to do this or how to mix body filler oh golden juice this golden juice is probably like
important and then you've got your hardener which i've already sappled up oh let's try a bit of the
smooth stuff on here first look ready oh look at this it's just gonna oh it looks like it's
filling the gaps let's speed up the old film wheel
so i could probably play with this all day and probably get no further forward
i'm quite happy with that i've no idea if i've done it right please tell me how i can
do it better but until i stand it down i don't know how good that's going to
turn out because to me it looks absolutely fine we're going to put that to one side
let it dry we've got some more prep work to do before we then do some painting
i'm very very pleased with that that is amazing
so everything is now looking very very shiny and colorful yes we have some black we have some
yellow it is looking absolutely beautiful so did someone say it's time for a reassembly reassembly
yes right let's crack on and put it back together so first job is going to be putting the point and
condenser and the flywheel and the coil and everything back onto this side of the engine
let's hope it all fits and all goes back in as it should fingers crossed let's go
what we've done so far we have got the point and condenser and flywheel and coil uh carbs back
in the clutch the exhaust the lower handle is on there and now it's time to put some sexy bits on
oil tank we have got the gasket so hopefully that should be absolutely fine just don't really need
to make a new one it's perfectly good condition and then we're going to use gasket sealer
or silicon sealer around the front there to be able to get that to go back together so
the screws that came out of this have all been beautifully cleaned here that way
that way round nice and slowly until they're nearly there
oh there right that is the oil tank on this has taken absolutely hours by the
way there's no getting away from it so it's time to put the fuel tank on the fuel tank
there we go put the fuel tank together but we do need just a thought we need the fuel pipe
inside first we've already got the new filter on from when we first originally ran it up
let's find clip the fuel pipe on inside there we are right that is all in now we've got a nice bond
lock here and um then fix our cover on with that because we're not gonna be able to make a gasket
for that very successfully obviously they didn't make them anymore i've never used one of these
tubes before and i'm going to use a squeezy tube oh my god that's coming out quicker than i thought
it was going too well i should have started at the bottom and then it had been hidden oh no james
this is the reason i painted the black so you can see i've i've gone the wrong way again because
i should have come the other way anyone tell i don't have a steady hand it's quite successful
yeah there we go did i actually just do something right put more
screws in around before we get too good away
so it's now time to do some arty farty stuff yeah i've done the main
painting as you'll know painting is not my forte but now we have got a stencil
yes it's got mcculloch written on it what else would we put on the chainsaw bar well
more yellow paint paint it on there we've got the decals to do let's bang on
oh scary scary it's yellow hopefully that's good don't touch it don't touch let's roll
me
so
so we are on the home straight yes all the detail is done even with my shaky hands
i'm pretty pleased and quite happy that's probably my favorite bit i've done about the whole thing
the saw is starting to come together it's looking wonderful it's looking very black and yellow let's
bang on with this last bit get all the panels on i see a bit of a problem with the paint on here
started to bobble a little bit i have no reason no idea why someone would like to tell me why perhaps
actually martin from retro restore he does a lot of this sort of stuff
perhaps you could let me know while why my paint keeps bubbling on my aluminium it's almost like
there's air coming out of the aluminium is there a reason for that is that how could
i have avoided that it'd be great to know if you haven't checked out martin's channel retro restore
check them out absolutely cool awesome guy and now we hopefully have got an on and off switch
and stop fuel cap before that fills with rubbish and dust we don't want that in there that fits
on like a dream oil cap oh these little oh well that needs a bit of a clean oh
see think about it we've got to put that cover on there first before this goes on probably give
it a little bit of a blow normally solves most problems perfect i haven't got a new air filter
i haven't been able to find one so i don't think you've really got to worry to be honest
why doesn't that fit if i put that the wrong way around well that's screwing down
the problem we've got is that that hole isn't lining up with the oil cap
what is going on here i have no idea there's nothing different because we never took that apart
right so will just had a bright idea is did i actually have i restored the wrong cover
the answer is yes i did because this one has an oval hole and although dirty fits on there
perfectly whereas the one i've restored and i restore that one because it is in much better
condition than this one um yeah so i think i need to make an oval hole be right back
yeah perfect go back to the paint shop with that now don't we yes we have a paint shop no we don't
have a paint shop i wish we did have a paint job time to make a chain yes it's 404 one of
the biggest changes available we don't use 404 very often so we've got a very old roll here
and cut it where was i there so you find the right one has got to sit in once you've
got a nice clean pin on the bottom and break it both sides you've got to go through both rivets
boom boom one broken chain once your chain is broken nice little length special link
to put in there the little rivets on pop them in there like so make sure you change the right way
around obviously you don't want your teeth on the inside do you want around there and
then you can wind up your rivet until you take up all the slacks that are slack sort of even
sexy beautiful bit of chain joining in there right all right let's go put it on the saw make it look
pretty um we're going to tip this on the side and we're going to work on the recoil and recoil cover
boom so this is going to be a hard bit trying to fiddle this through let me light it up with pocket
all right up there nice and pointy yes nice and pointy inside there we go as bad as i thought it's
gonna be and then pull that through cool so once you've got your rope in there you can then pop
on this one not very many of these you can do it like this you can pop your rope through there have
a nice little washer on the end put the washer over and another nice little figure of eight knots
around again up over and up through but they're nice and close to the top but not too close
i didn't do a little lighter trick there we go look at that beautiful and then that shouldn't
be too big to go back through that washer then it looks good to me you can then wrap this around
i should then dangle that out over there and your thumbs are steel and then you get your top cover
top cover onto there then find your screws yeah a little bit of tensions look at that
making a piece of paintwork sandwich sexy bit of new hardware going in normally you're
doing this you just put on the bench but i don't know how the paint work
it works yay going with the same plug that wasn't it before we know it works don't you
the paint don't screw that extra little bit just because you think you could don't shoot the paint
there we are let me screw that one down into there don't feel long enough but they don't go
all the way out the other side you see right we should now be able to put our top cover on well
let me show you hang on one last final touch because you've got the boar inside
you've got the boring side you want to see this side looks great
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the mcculloch 152 has been fully restored she is looking bang tidy now with a new color scheme to
make her pop this powerhouse of a saw can pump out 87 cc of vintage power all while weighing in at
a staggering 10 kilos yes 22 pounds of metal you can honestly call her a piece of american muscle
history they certainly don't make souls like this anymore thank god because it's bloody heavy
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