Kevin - keep pumping oil all the while you are cutting, you should run out of bar oil long before you run out of gas if you are keeping that bar and chain properly lubricated.
Follow up to my post 29020 - I've been working on the SE2014 Mini Mac off and on, like most Mini Mac projects you get lots of practice taking it apart and putting it back together... I thought I was really making progress tonight and ready to finish it off when I discovered the idle speed adjust screw was broken off in the carburetor. Sooo, take it all apart one more time and change the carburetor for one that will work properly. I won't go into detail about how I spent a day and a half trying to make the Zama M7 carburetor work with Walbro MDC gaskets and diaphragms when it finally dawned on me I had the correct Zama parts in another drawer.
In the mean time, I acquired a surface grinder this week (a well used unit); actually it was purchased by the local lumber yard where they manufacture surveying stakes primarily from 2x4 material and have a "hubber" to put points on the 2x2 stakes. The hubber uses a pair of 3-1/2" planer blades that need frequent sharpening and I will be taking over the job of grinding them. I will need to find a decent magnetic chuck to use with it as well to expand the versatility.
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On a different note---if an old Mac has a 650 slashed out with a number over it not readable on the bottom of the saw what might it be?
I haven't got a spare carb but you definitely need the adapter.
Got the deed done today, the 380 performed flawlessly.Well, a buddy of mine called me tonight, the power company y took down a tree in front of his house that he is gonna keep for firewood. I haven't seen it myself but nobody around here has a saw that will touch it. Apparently it is a 3 footer. Looks like it will be a yellow saw show either this weekend or next. Vintage McCulloch to the rescue.
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