To make a long story short it had no spark and of course had the blue coil of death in it lol so replaced that and now it has spark but he said the only way to get it to start and run is to spray starting fluid/ether into the carb because it isn't getting any fuel but has good compression and his words not mine said it run like a raped ape lol ( for the few seconds it run with sprays lol ) I am not a chainsaw engine expert by any means so i took it to my local home depot service department because we have no small engine specialty places where i live and they were the only ones that would look at it for me. The guy i got it from said it run before he put it away ( like everyone says of course lol ) but couldn't get it started when i was there and said it was mostly stored most of it's life in the garage, So like a idiot i figured it just needed some TLC and picked it up anyway. I have a Homelite super xl auto i picked up because my father and i grew up using one to get firewood for years and years and i had fond memories of the saw and wanted to use it again.