Daily Attention To Chain And Guide Bar; How To Start, Stop And Hold The Saw Correctly - Homelite 150 Owner's Manual

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DAILY ATTENTTON
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At the end of each day ol operation, remove the chain
and guide bar. Clean the sawdust from the guide bar
mounting pad, the clutch area and the clutch cover.
Clean out'the oil discharge hole in the guide bar
mounting pad. Clean the Chain groove in the guide
bar.
The chain should be liled and cleaned. Then the chain
should be immersed in a can of light oil until ready
for the next use.
Sprocket nose guide bars must be lubricated while
siill warm lrom use, at the end of each day of cutting.
Using needle nose of Lube Gun #24258 filled with
HOMELITE ALL-TEMP Multi-Purpose grease' pump
grease into the sprocket nose bearing through_ the
-mall grease hole in the side of the bar nose. Keep
pumping until the dirty grease is forced out and fresh
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grease oozes out of the nose, This removes sawdust,
dirt and moisture trom the bearing. ll bar is lubricated
when cold, the old grease may not come out.
BAR NosE sHouLD stLL BE *ARM *HEN
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NOSE IS LUBRICATED 1,,
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LUBE HOLE
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THROTTLE TRIGGER LATCH
PULL BACK TO LATCH TRIGGER FOR
STARTING. DEPRESS AND LET GO OF
TR]GGER TO UNLATCH,
DEPRESS TRIGGER ALL
THE WAY WHEN
CUTTING WOOD
A sprocket nose bearing is good as long as it turns
freeiy with no roughness or binding. However, it can be
replaced with a new sprocket nose assembly (Ho[,lELlTE
A--67050) whenever necessary. Both the chain drive and
nose sprockets should be replaced whenever a neu
chain is being installed.
NUTS SHOULD BE FINGER.TIGHT DURING
TENSIONING AND TIGHTENED AFTERWARD
HOLD UP BAR NOSE
ADJUST TENSION
SLIDE CHOKE ALL THE WAY BACK TO
START COLD ENGINE. PUSH BACK HALF.
WAY AFTER ENGINE FIRES. PUSH ALL
THE WAY FORWARD AS SOON AS
ENGINE STARTS AND RUNS.