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Needed to update this Topic for additions, plus it may help others. I obtained the Illustrated Parts List for this Chainsaw from the original owners who purchased it in March '72' in the UK. The IPLs (attached here) are dated 9/71, so the Saw is a very early model example- XXVModel25.pdf With the IPLs, I have been able to reproduce the Felling Spike which was an optional extra for this model. For now, I made one from old 1. 3/8" (35-ish mm) mild steel box section- Marked it out (scribed 'n' pen) rough first- Next thing to do was to heat it up to cherry red for a few minutes to take the stresses out of it, as it is ERW formed box. Cut it out and cleaned up, then added a few tweaks to shape it and fitted with some 1960s chrome 10 x 24 UNC Setscrews- I'll give this Spike a Case Hardening session, as I've ran out of 3/32" Gauge Plate and have to order some more to make a pukka hardened example from this pattern. Regards

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This arrived a couple of weeks ago, a fairly early 1960's type 98 engine, the paint colour is original as far as I can tell, I haven't seen another in this unusual colour. If anyone knows what tool it may have been used for please let me know. The tank bracket & strap needed a bit of adjustment and some screws, now reassembled. David

Also I had a go at bidding on a another type 98 engine (I asked the seller what type it was as it looked unusual), I didn't win it but here are some pictures of it showing the externally threaded PTO shaft mentioned in the parts list, together with an adaptor housing I haven't seen before. The adaptor housing looks like was attached to something flat, also note the long stop switch wire. Anyone seen one like this before? David

I've had a better look at the parts attached to the PTO shaft of this engine, it looks like an adaptor kit for something like a propeller, which doesn't help with identifying the original use. But I have found a reference in a parts list from 1964 for an externally threaded PTO shaft (part no. 42-39) being used on the type 98 engine, clearly mine doesn't have one, but it could have been changed as someone has definitely had this engine apart, the screws for the induction housing have been shortened too, so it probably had an adaptor plate or housing. David

In the 60's every time a Ford went by the house the TV would get fuzzy.