Sounds good, I knew you could get it running again. 
Help me resurrect my old Craftsman chainsaw
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It cuts great. I'm very excited!Sounds good, I knew you could get it running again.
Super glad to hear you got it running. Terrible cell svc where I'm at so I will watch when I get home
If you need parts on the future, that saw looks like a poulan 2450, made for craftsman.
I don't have any videos of me running it full throttle, just the one where it sits idling. Still have to figure out the low speed idle setting but I'll get there.
I usually turn the low speed screw in until I get the highest idle, then back out 1/4 turn richer. Re-adjust the idle screw if necessary and repeat again.
I adjust the high side with a small tachometer.
What I did when reassembling the carb after cleaning is I turned the low and high speed screws until they stopped, then backed each out 1.5 turns. That's the only adjustment I've made so far. I didn't get to run the saw very long today because we had company coming. I'll probably do a little more cutting/adjusting Sunday afternoon.
Also of note is how clean the carb was when I disassembled it. I expected it to be full of varnish/deposits of some sort after sitting all these years, but it was mostly spotless. The gaskets were completely dry rotted, though. I had to scrape them off with a razor.
One correction to the video I posted earlier where I said I installed a Hipa carb kit. It was actually a Hipa tune up kit (fuel lines, filters, spark plug). The carb kit and carb to engine gasket were kits I got from eBay. The carb kit and carb to engine gasket were both made in USA which was surprising.
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