Clutch wear

[lan]

Please excuse my ignorance but is this wear normal, chainsaw is a year old and had moderte use?

 

Kind regards

lan

[Stubby]

54 minutes ago, lan said:

Please excuse my ignorance but is this wear normal, chainsaw is a year old and had moderte use?

 

Kind regards

lan

Thats not the clutch , its the drive sprocket . I have seen worse ! If its a " spur " sprocket then you will have to replace the clutch drum as it is attached to it . " floating " sprockets you can just replace separately .  

[lan]

Stubby, thank you for the reply, much appreciated and if l had used my common l would have realised it was the drive.

[AHPP]

19 minutes ago, Stubby said:

it . " floating " sprockets you can just replace separately .  

Rim sprockets as we call them in the trade.  

[openspaceman]

19 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Thats not the clutch , its the drive sprocket . I have seen worse ! If its a " spur " sprocket then you will have to replace the clutch drum as it is attached to it . " floating " sprockets you can just replace separately .  

Yes once the drive link bottoms out and marks the bottom of a spur sprocket with that telltale bright spot it needs replacing. How many chains have been through it in the year? I would supect an over tight chain if not more than one.

[Mick Dempsey]

48 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Yes once the drive link bottoms out and marks the bottom of a spur sprocket with that telltale bright spot it needs replacing. How many chains have been through it in the year? I would supect an over tight chain if not more than one.

Did not know that.

Every day a school day it seems.

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

Rim sprockets as we call them in the trade.  

Yes . A floating rim as we call it . I did not want to say just rim as the op clearly was not familiar with the terms used in the trade . Spur , rim etc etc . 

Edited 2 hours ago by Stubby

[openspaceman]

51 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Did not know that.

Every day a school day it seems.

I admit I used to run them a bit longer than that as I only had spur sprockets on less used , bigger saws. Even Stubby's floating rims will show the telltale mark the drive link makes as they wear, unlike spur drum the rims tend to explode if you run them too long.