Mine showed up today as well, and to my surprise it is a NEW one, never been used.....sounds great.....THEN I found out why?
It refuses to run. I quickly found two problems with it, corrected them, and I have a brand new never cut a stick of wood Ryobi limbing saw.
Two problems to look out for. The fuel line is WAY too long, and the filter not weighted enough to keep it in down in the fuel. Shortened the line and added 3 washers to it, all is fine there.
Then it refuses to stay running for more than about 30 seconds at a time, without loosening the gas cap.
So I quickly found out why it never made it to a log after being sold and was marked as "refurbished". I'm sure it was ran or briefly tested, but no one tried to cut with it, or run it any length of time.
Anyhow, I removed the cover, carb and vent, and took the vent apart. Low and behold, the rubber end of the vent was pushed down too far, blocking off the hole into the tank. Fixed that and it's running FLAWLESSLY!
I will say that my initial impression of the saw is pretty good, but it does NOT run as strong as my Husqvarna 435. I'll give it a few tanks and some fine tuning as see if this improves some. I did muffler mod the Ryobi per a PM to Brad, thanks, that was easy and worked fine.....Cliff