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Offline pigpen60

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makita 6421 tuning
« on: September 17, 2014, 02:55:21 pm »
ok I read the madsens carb tuning article and have it saved to favorites. I took the Makita and my tach out and tried my hand at tuning, the idle is a bit low at 2100-2300 but it will seemingly idle all day. just might be somewhere else in the shop when you come back(vibrates). the high I adjusted to 12900 and took the saw out and cut cookies for a good while and then let it set on the floor idling just see if it would. it did. nothing seized yet. bought this saw to learn on and I am ;D

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Re: makita 6421 tuning
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2014, 03:24:03 pm »
12900 would normally be a good setting for the top end.

On the idle, you don't want the saw to quit and you don't want the chain spinning either. Anything else is OK.
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Re: makita 6421 tuning
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2014, 03:28:14 pm »
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Re: makita 6421 tuning
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2014, 03:06:02 am »
Congratulations on your maiden voyage, very satisfying is it not! Now you will just be itching to buy another and play with that, it is addictive. ;D ;D ::)
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Re: makita 6421 tuning
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2014, 01:47:38 pm »
yes it is addictive, have a poulan I need to reassemble. sometime in the future my 6421 is going to become a 7900. if we had the internet earlier I might not have been so worried about killing a saw.

 

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