Elmore
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What advice would you offer, in breaking in a new saw?
Break-in fundamentals
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Max
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Fuel it up, put it in wood & use it don't abuse it.
Heat cycle it a few times by starting the saw and letting it comeup to temperature then turning it off and letting it cool completely. After that Run the living snot out of it to seat the rings.
Proj Eng
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I bought mine from a dealer so it was set up with slightly limited rpm settings; idle, high and low. The dealer said after 4-6 tanks fo fuel you can then adjust to the recommended MFR settings. He said to use it as normal. I don't own one of the digital tachs so I let him do the adjusting. It's a Husky 346XP.
chainsawworld
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fuel 'er up and run 'er hard. just like chainsaws a made to run.
Lewis Brander
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Breaking in a Saw.
If you did a search there is a lot of comments on break in. My advice would be to fuel her up with 40/1 mix and use it like you stole it. Just avoid over reving the saw out of any cut, especially while limbing a tree. Keep an ear on the carb and adjust as necessary, slightly on the rich side for the firsst few tankfulls. JMO. Lewis.
If you did a search there is a lot of comments on break in. My advice would be to fuel her up with 40/1 mix and use it like you stole it. Just avoid over reving the saw out of any cut, especially while limbing a tree. Keep an ear on the carb and adjust as necessary, slightly on the rich side for the firsst few tankfulls. JMO. Lewis.
Stumper
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Just run it. -There are all sorts of theories. Idle a tank of fuel through it, heat cycle it, cut at half throttle etc. Some make more sense than others but just fueling it up and running it works. It was designed to do that. 
Butch(OH)
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For a few tankfulls I try to ovoid prolonged full output operations. I like to do some limbing etc for at least the first couple fill ups. As noted by others on this forum a new saw will pick up a good bit of torque somewhere after the first tank of fuel, 3-4 in my experience. When the torque comes in I run'em. I set the carb where it runs right and the mix is per mfg spec, nothing special for break in. Running the motor wide open out of the cut is something I just dont do anyway so I cant comment on that. Others I know just uncrate them and use them with no apparent ill efect.
