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    New MS260?

    does it have both high and low adjustments?

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    It should have. Mine is less than a year old and it does. It does not have the comp release like the newest ones, though.
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    be sure to double check some are sold with a fixed high speed carb dont know why they would do this. i bought mine last october and it was fully adjustable
    saws...yea i got em



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    I got mine within 2 years and it has high and low adj.

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    i have an 05/06 model with both adjustments but ordered a new one and want to be sure....dealer said it had both...but you know how that goes some times.

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    yea my dealer dont know his ass from a hole in the ground, he told me my 260 was right where it was supposed to be at 15,300 rpm:dizzy that thing would bog as soon as it seen wood, took it to another dealer turned it down to 13,500 and it rips now

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