Having agreed a sale on the MS660, and since the dolmakita has vanished from a couple of the websites i found it on at very cheap prices just yesterday...... while it was still on the last, and cheapest of all that kiwibrofound for me i decided..HIT BUY! 
So a
MAKITA EA7900P45E 78.5cc Petrol 18" / 45cm Professional Chainsaw is on its way to me, with a free 100ml one shot bottle of husqvarna 2 stroke oil and...AND...some free safety googles! wow, those freebees eh! well, tbh the 44% saving on rrp making £550.51 delivered swung it.
oh yeah!
So it is quiet..nice. until you muffler mod it....ah...and i read that the EA7900 is 1/2 a horsey down on the older DCS7900 with the only difference being...the pussycat in the newer muffler. errr.....well i always wear a foresters helmet with ear defenders.
might see if i can hunt out a dcs muff though rather than destroying the *****, just so i can go quiet again if i wish to. hmm....hutzl doing dolmar yet?
chainwise it comes with a semi chisel 3/8 x 0.058" for 18", i get the gauge is the width of the driver/guide bar groove (i learnt that when the 038 i bought had a 0.050" chain on a 0.063" bar and really didn't work well at all until i worked that out). I assumed it would have some affect on the cutter size too...well it does...the kerf grows noticeably. what i haven't got my head around yet though is if the gauge has any bearing on the file size i need. i.e. will my stihl 2 in 1 file for 3/8 (* 0.063") fit or do i need to find that a new home and get myself a new, different size one?
I'll buy a full chisel chain for it too, does stihl rs come in 0.058"? I' like stihl chain....not that I've used oregon though tbf....hmm..I ought to try oregon and not just always go on what i read.
woo who, 79.5cc of dolmakitasachs on its way to ME!
So a
MAKITA EA7900P45E 78.5cc Petrol 18" / 45cm Professional Chainsaw is on its way to me, with a free 100ml one shot bottle of husqvarna 2 stroke oil and...AND...some free safety googles! wow, those freebees eh! well, tbh the 44% saving on rrp making £550.51 delivered swung it.
oh yeah!I think the sound of a dolmar is pretty quiet, then you open it up a bit and they get very throaty.
As Mike was saying it's the width of the driver. There are three sizes in 3/8 chain 063, 058, 050. Stihl saws many times will run .063, huskys and dolmars .058. I prefer 050 as I can run it on any saw that I have an 050 bar for as long as the chain has the proper drive link count.
You can buy a bar adapter and run the stihl bars on it if that makes it easier for you. I have one for my dolmars as I have a nice collection of longer stihl bars as well as a cannon that is a stihl mount. I also have one for my huskys so I can run a stihl bar on them if I want, but I try not to do that as that's just not right.
So it is quiet..nice. until you muffler mod it....ah...and i read that the EA7900 is 1/2 a horsey down on the older DCS7900 with the only difference being...the pussycat in the newer muffler. errr.....well i always wear a foresters helmet with ear defenders.
might see if i can hunt out a dcs muff though rather than destroying the *****, just so i can go quiet again if i wish to. hmm....hutzl doing dolmar yet?
chainwise it comes with a semi chisel 3/8 x 0.058" for 18", i get the gauge is the width of the driver/guide bar groove (i learnt that when the 038 i bought had a 0.050" chain on a 0.063" bar and really didn't work well at all until i worked that out). I assumed it would have some affect on the cutter size too...well it does...the kerf grows noticeably. what i haven't got my head around yet though is if the gauge has any bearing on the file size i need. i.e. will my stihl 2 in 1 file for 3/8 (* 0.063") fit or do i need to find that a new home and get myself a new, different size one?
I'll buy a full chisel chain for it too, does stihl rs come in 0.058"? I' like stihl chain....not that I've used oregon though tbf....hmm..I ought to try oregon and not just always go on what i read.
woo who, 79.5cc of dolmakitasachs on its way to ME!
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