Yesterday I learned the importance of using the correct diameter rope for pull starters.I have a 1983 Husky 266 chain saw. For as long as I remember, every half-dozen pulls or so the rope would stop dead, pull out my hand; it sometimes felt like my fingers got pulled off. An older freind of mine - a logger - had complained about his Huskys doing this, and chalked in up to "compression", I never thought much more about it. Yesterday the rope on my saw broke (one that I replaced many years ago), and when I took it apart I couldn't find the end of the rope because it was bound up somewhere among the rope inside the spool. It became clear to me that the diameter of the pull rope was too narrow for the spool and it was getting bound up on itself, and that was the cause of it ripping out of my hand every few pulls. I put new rope in the pull start, with a diameter that fills up width of the spool. The damn saw never pulled so easily (at least not as long as I remember).
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