Took another one of my 028 Supers out this morning and cut logs with it that ranged from 4" to 14" dia. It gave me a chance to tune the carb as I went along. I adjusted it to the point of perfection with good idling, acceleration and top end. I hadn't done that for awhile and the old girl really appreciated it. Much as I like my 026 PRO, it usually takes five pulls to start it (3 chokes and two fast idle). This gal started cold in three choke pulls and on the third, she calmly waited until I shifted to fast idle. How sweet it is!
Took another one of my 028 Supers out this morning and cut logs with it that ranged from 4" to 14" dia. It gave me a chance to tune the carb as I went along. I adjusted it to the point of perfection with good idling, acceleration and top end. I hadn't done that for awhile and the old girl really appreciated it. Much as I like my 026 PRO, it usually takes five pulls to start it (3 chokes and two fast idle). This gal started cold in three choke pulls and on the third, she calmly waited until I shifted to fast idle. How sweet it is!
Your story made me all warm a fuzzy! Guess after dinner I'm making a tall drink and heading out to the shed to make some process on several saws awaiting their reassembly. I didn't lightly pressure wash these guys with their covers off when they got here, got lazy! Now I got greasy sawdust just waiting to fall in! I was thinking of pressure washing them then trying to dry them with the backpack but don't know if all the little particals will wash out the bearings enough!!!! Augh!!! I'll never do this again! I was thinking of stuffing with a blue shop towel then blowing the dust off then just pulling the shop towels and hitting the area inside real quick with a map gas torch... Help burn off anything that's in there ??? I really Don't want a chunk a crap jamming in the gap or gettin behind my ring and buggering up my newly cleaned up saw, you know?
Well, like granny always told me. She said, "Son, if you're gonna be so dumb, you're gonna need to be real tough!"
I had a dream the other afternoon about when I was hand sanding off that aluminum transfer in the beautiful oem cylinders... Man are they just impressive quality. !!! Got my four little 16 inch Sugi-hara roller tip bars...I think $20 bucks each was a real good deal... Gotta hit the button and get the Oregon semi chisel chain comming!!! It's time to get cuttin' with these girls!!! I know their in my top favorites without having even run up yet! And that little 44mm plug will pull that 67 driver .325 .50 gauge threw the avarage hardwoods around here just fine! And I don't care if they don't spin fifty thousand gigs watts like my 346xp did ... I didn't care for the sound of that saw and sold it...and started alternating threw the 6 350's I've got on the shelf. They all need to get out and streatch their legs a bit. And hell, the old 350 with the Hutzl bigbore kit and muffler modded with the 1/2 inch pipe port sounds an runs better ...or just as good and sounds better then any of the others!
I just can't wait to open the intake and exhaust on my extra 028 (44mm) jug and see how much more pull I get ... I might be able to grind on those rakes a bit and let her really chew!!!! Woo hooo! I usta always say "God Bless America!" Now I gotta try to figure out how to add, and "West Germany" where all these beautiful old Stihls were made!