My little 301 often needs the trigger held when starting warm even with the carb tuned a bit. OTOH its such a light saw it easy to do that. I set up a velcro loop on the 590, its quite a bit heaver saw etc- a great idea!
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My little 301 often needs the trigger held when starting warm even with the carb tuned a bit. OTOH its such a light saw it easy to do that. I set up a velcro loop on the 590, its quite a bit heaver saw etc- a great idea!
I just leave it on around the handle trimmed to length. When the saw starts, I just slide it back.
+1 on the velcro strap idea, the saw does flood pretty easily. I did the 1st start and flooded when "drop starting" it, so slid the strap over the throttle and got it going right away. Didn't need the decomp. Then I fooled around a bit on a piece of mulberry. The saw pulls <hard> compared to my old homelite lol. Pretty good chain on it out of the box too, which is nice- my 301 had a pretty awful safety chain on it. I lowered the idle a touch and leaned H to the limiter stop. I'll take out the adjust stops and adjust further once I have a few tanks through it.
If the velcro strap comes off I'm inclined to cut a length of webbing and sew it into a loop.
If the velcro strap comes off I'm inclined to cut a length of webbing and sew it into a loop.
