Hello Sir. My dad was a timber cutter from the %0's to the 70's ,  Who I learned the skill from. He used Homelite chainsaws all his life. I subscribed, liked and shared . Hope you ars having a great New Year.

That was a fun investigation. It's kinda like me (collective me, all of us really).   40+ years ago a photo would show you a young teen, strong and smart and ready to take on the world.  Today, a photo would show the grizzled grey hair, the lean to the side, the 'you can see the limp even standing still' and the cane held by a person waiting on knee replacement.   :) I think part of the choice too would be "do I clean it up, get it running with minimal maintenance parts, and clear coat it" or "make it off the shelf original" and with a hot rod, blown up, modified, and limped along saw well tells an interesting story in its way.  Heck, you could even just use some fiberglass and epoxy and fill in the hole, leave the battle wound and let it be a scar :)

Leon is the Homelite wizard ! Hope you had a great Christmas and new year! Hopefully we can see your XLBC 4 Brush cutter in action this year!

Nice to see you back

I'm looking forward to seeing it run with that cover off :)

Great interesting video Leon.   See ya next time.    Happy New Year.   Larry

My blue, white with only black lettering XL-12  from 1964 still has the original plug, points, condenser, pull cord and Turkish  hash residue unmolested.

That's going to be a awesome restore if you go that way...I would love to hear that run....Leon I got my hands on a 1962 Stihl 07 really low hours, but ruff in looks, has been sitting for over 55 years. I will soon be digging into that beast...

AAh performance parts and blown up transmissions, never saw it coming.

Looks just like my 707 g 1961 iso some parts

Hat ever it is i love it❤❤

That saw looks like a super wiz 66 or 80 mabe

1959 ZIP

Agreed. I kinda think it's a 770-g

A Homelite 770 GS

I'm the same way I don't put stuff in them unless they need it

I had a friend come up with some of the biggest saws ever gear drive 5ft 6ft bars big cc very old saws

770g maybe

I just watched a YouTube video for filling in an aluminum casting where a chunk was blown out.  
You might be able to do that.  Seems like it was a torch and aluminum rods.  
Interesting video

Shure got hot fire to be that old I just got a crasftman 3.7 /roper to fire off I zapped the coil with a battery charger got it to fire but wouldn't hit so me and a buddy took the mag off the key was sheared I had another mag and key the old mag was wollered out we put it on poured some fuel in the carb it fired off good needs carb gone thru its been chiped orange chip some one has put on it